Chair’s Message: New senior promotions, the road to diversity, and celebrating the strength of our community (May 2022)
Dr. Onye Nnorom, DFCM’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Lead, celebrates the success of gender parity and our hard-working colleagues – while being conscious of the road ahead. She talks about the work in progress: “At DFCM, there is a collective desire to improve in terms of diversity. To ensure our faculty make-up and promotions better reflect the communities that we serve, we are having discussions about the respectful collection of sociodemographic data within our department.”
“We are also considering promising practices regarding pathway programs and approaches to ensure our residency program is as diverse as possible,” Dr. Nnorom says. “Hopefully, soon we can also celebrate an increase in equity-deserving groups being promoted. We will get there!”
Dr. David White, DFCM’s Senior Promotions Committee Chair and Vice-Chair of Family Doctor Leadership, says, “Senior promotion recognizes people whose work is having an impact at the national and international level. As family doctors, ultimately, that means improving lives.”
Pointing to the increase in applicant numbers and successful candidates over the last several years, Dr. White says, “This growth is a testament not only to individual achievement, but to our supportive colleagues and our fertile environment at DFCM, Temerty Faculty of Medicine and U of T as a whole that fosters outstanding research, professional creativity, and teaching and education.”
