THE WILSON CENTRE RESEARCH ROUNDS
HYBRID RESEARCH ROUNDS
In Person: The Wilson Centre, Toronto General Hospital, 200 Elizabeth St., Rm 559 Toronto ON
Authentically Augmented: Unpacking AI's Impact Through Financial and Transformational Lenses
Date: Monday October 20th 2025
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Janet Corral, PhD
Friend of the Wilson Center, University of Toronto; Adjunct Faculty, University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine; Adjunct Faculty, Bruyere Health Research Institute, University of Ottawa
This session will explore the core premise of AI as a productivity, and transformational tool with a financial ROI for higher education. Interweaving theoretical frameworks and practical translation-to-practice data and cases across industry and higher education sectors, we will interactively explore how and what AI might replace in academic medicine research and curriculum. In addition, we will explore how we navigate our leadership voices in thoughtful and reliably augmented ways. This session intends to engage the audience in dialogue and application to their own research and curriculum development practices with AI.
For those attending virtually, please register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/7QRayf4WToSt-yT-8RZdAQ
The Wilson Centre Education Research Rounds offers participants a forum to engage in educational dialogue geared towards promoting excellence in their specific education research interests and identified professional needs. It is a great opportunity to build a sense of community among the scholars and graduate students of the Wilson Centre. Drs. Catharine Walsh and David Rojas co-chair these Rounds.
CALL TO PRESENT at Wilson Centre Rounds; if interested, please get in touch with chery.ku@uhn.ca
BEST PRACTICES IN EDUCATION ROUNDS
Program Objective
Best Practices in Education Rounds (BPER): Integrating Stories and Science link the theory and practice of health professions education and faculty development with invited speakers from local, national and international contexts.
Program Description
Best Practices in Education Rounds (BPER) are co-hosted by the Centre for Faculty Development, The Wilson Centre and the Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education (CACHE). We leverage the expertise that exists between our Centres to facilitate a more impactful offering.
BPER provides the opportunity to share innovative and emerging ideas with a wide audience of interested health professional teachers, educators, leaders, and scholars. BPER aims to reach a diverse audience, including patient/client and family partners and a range of professional/health worker backgrounds.
Program Structure
Rounds are held monthly (second Tuesday of each month) throughout the academic year and are offered virtually via Zoom. They are freely accessible for anyone to attend. Please click here to see our upcoming offerings. Registration is required. Recordings of past offerings are saved in our BPER Archive.
BPER Reads is our annual “Battle of the Papers” each February. Invited scholars champion the one paper of the past academic year they feel every health professional educator must read. Voting opens in October and each month the paper with the lowest number of votes is eliminated. At BPER Reads in February, the champions of the final two papers battle it out for the title of ‘best paper’.
Program Dates for 2024-2025:
October 8, 2024 / November 12, 2024 / December 10, 2024 / January 14, 2025
February 11, 2025 / *No BPER in March due to March Break / April 8, 2025
May 13, 2025 / June 10, 2025
For further information or to register please visit https://centreforfacdev.ca/best-practices-in-education-rounds/
The Brian D. Hodges Symposium celebrates Dr. Brian D. Hodges’ continuing contributions to health professions education research. Dr. Hodges, Director of the Wilson Centre from 2003-2011, is currently the Executive Vice-President of Education at the University Health Network and a Scientist at The Wilson Centre.
By bringing together the community of health professions education researchers, educators, scholars and students, we aim to motivate attendees to think beyond the boundaries of their current work and look for points of intersection with the research of others. The symposium provides a rare opportunity for in-depth discussion of the theory and practice of education. Attendees will enjoy invited presentations from global leaders in health professions education and the next generation of education scientists and scholars.
THE RICHARD K. REZNICK WILSON CENTRE RESEARCH DAY 2026
Information coming soon . . .
About Dr. Richard Reznick
Richard Reznick received his medical degree from McGill University, followed by a general surgical residency at the University of Toronto. He spent two years in fellowship training, first obtaining a Masters’ degree in medical education, followed by a fellowship in colorectal surgery at the University of Texas.
Dr. Reznick was the inaugural Director of the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine’s Centre for Research in Education at University Health Network, and in 1999 was appointed Vice President of Education at University Health Network. He served eight years as the R. S. McLaughlin Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto.
From 2010 -2020, Dr. Reznick assumed the position of Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen’s University and Chief Executive Officer of the Southeastern Ontario Academic Medical Organization (SEAMO).
From 2021 - 2023, Dr. Reznick assumed the position of President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.