Naylor Building

Department of Medicine

Anchored in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at U of T, the Department of Medicine is one of the oldest departments of its kind in North America, dating back to the founding of the School of Medicine in 1843. Now, the Department of Medicine is one of the largest in North America, with 946 full-time faculty members and over 1,000 postgraduate trainees located across hospitals and clinical practice sites across the Greater Toronto Area. One third of Canada’s and one half of Ontario’s internal medicine specialists received their training here.

We are a research powerhouse that generates new knowledge with the goal of meaningfully impacting internal medicine training and the care and health outcomes of patients and their families. A commitment to equity, diversity and professionalism, and a philosophy of innovation, creativity and continuous quality improvement, informs everything that we do.

Welcome to the Department of Medicine

Message from the Chair

On Being a Faculty Member

In September I had the pleasure of hosting my first orientation session for new full-time faculty in the Department of Medicine. This provided me with not only the sense of renewal that comes at the start of an academic year, but also an opportunity to reflect on what it means to be an academic physician.