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The Office of Education Scholarship

Education scholarship is about ideas. It’s about taking an idea about teaching and learning — something you are curious about or even a frustration — and developing that into findings that can be shared and acted upon. 

The Office of Education Scholarship (OES) is here to help you! Book an Education Scholarship Chat to have an informal conversation with an OES faculty member and explore our programs and services below. 

Dr. Kulamakan Kulasegaram
“We are creating the future of family medicine education through rigorous scholarship, collaboration and capacity building.”

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About us

The OES is a source of knowledge, guidance and mentorship in scholarly activities related to teaching and education in family medicine. Our faculty work with individuals, leaders, programs and teaching sites. We can help you take a question through the scholarly process to a stage where the results of your work can be shared with a peer group. We can support and help build your own capacity to engage in your everyday work in a scholarly manner.
Jun 6, 2023
Victoria Mintsopoulos (MSc 2019, MD 2023) will graduate this spring from the MD Program at the University of Toronto's Temerty Faculty of Medicine. Her dream of working in comprehensive, holistic patient care has led her to choose family medicine as her preferred field.
Mar 8, 2023
After a storied hockey career that culminated in being inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame, Hayley Wickenheiser pursued another childhood dream: becoming a doctor. “I always knew I needed a life after hockey and thought that would be a good one,” says Wickenheiser.
Feb 13, 2023
Not only do Toronto's northwest communities face some of the most inequitable outcomes in the city, it has also been described as a primary care desert. To address what is quickly becoming a dire situation in primary care in the area, Humber River Hospital has recently joined DFCM as their newest teaching hospital site.