Vision & Purpose

OUR MISSION

The Wilson Centre aims to offer these key values to our partners, publics, and members:

• High quality impactful education science through:

• theory-driven expertise and knowledge creation that identifies educational problems and solutions in collaboration with health professions education (HPE) practitioners, learners, patients, and clinical partners. The Centre puts theory to work, particularly in complex issues that can be difficult to see and understand.

• questions and perspectives that help HPE professionals and researchers reframe and reconsider assumptions about their work, opening new insights, processes, and innovative approaches in HPE. Our work aims to be bold and push boundaries.

• strategic and practical assistance to HPE practitioners, institutions, and policy makers for transforming HPE.

• A substantial interdisciplinary PhD program in Health Professions Education Research that creates leaders in emerging areas, fosters theoretical and methodological innovations, and contributes to the Centre’s long-term sustainability and community of practice.

• Innovative contributions to diversity, inclusion and equity in HPE research, with particular attention to supporting Indigenous Health Education Scholarship through processes of reconciliation.

• A collaborative research community including external networks that creates a nexus of highly diverse practical and intellectual standpoints, providing connection, challenge, support, and inspiration. We generate models of interdisciplinary research and intellectual fluidity, and ways to speak a common language across paradigms.

• Collaborative partnerships to share knowledge and expand boundaries of HPE. These relationships balance strategic feasibility with commitments to mutual reciprocity and wellbeing, respect and humility.

OUR PURPOSE

The Wilson Centre generates high quality and innovative interdisciplinary education science to propel transformations in health professions education.

View our Strategic Plan 2022-2026 (pdf)

View our Strategic Refresh Report 2017-2020 (pdf)


Annual Reports


2015-2019 External Review

Commissioning Officer Professor Trevor Young, Dean
Review Date November 18, 2020

Reviewers are asked to provide a report that satisfies the following:

  • Identifies and commends the EDU:C’s notably strong and innovative attributes

  • Describes the EDU:C’s respective strengths, areas for improvement, and opportunities for enhancement

  • Recommends specific steps to be taken to improve the EDU:C, distinguishing between those the unit can itself take and those that require external action

  • Recognizes the institution’s autonomy to determine priorities for funding, space, and faculty allocation

  • Respects the confidentiality required for all aspects of the review process

  • Addresses all elements of the terms of reference

Wilson Centre Strategic Refresh Plan 2017-2020
External Review Report Form (PDF)
Director’s Response (PDF)
Wilson Centre Self Study Report External Review 2015-2019 (PDF)
Wilson Centre Addendum January to August 2020 (PDF)
Wilson Centre Strategic Plan 2022-2026 (PDF)