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Program Highlights

The mission of the Palliative Medicine Subspecialty Residency Program at the University of Toronto is to train outstanding palliative care subspecialists who will use clinical, academic and scholarly skills throughout their future careers to improve the quality of death and dying for patients and family members.

The program meets the specific training requirements set out by the Royal College. Residents will acquire core palliative care knowledge and skills by rotating through palliative care services in a variety of inpatient, outpatient and community settings as they progress through the four stages of training. Trainees will learn about the management of end-stage non-cancer illness through specific rotations in their first year and a longitudinal ambulatory block in their second year. At the end of the second year, the trainee will complete another three blocks of core palliative care rotations during which the trainee will function as a “junior attending” in preparation for their transition to practice. Trainees will have 1 block of research and 2 selectives during their 2-years of training. There is a 4 block ambulatory rotation comprising of non-cancer clinics.

Trainees will be required to complete a scholarly or academic project during the course of their training. This project will be conceived, designed, conducted, analyzed and hopefully published by the trainee, under the supervision of a faculty mentor, on a topic of interest and relevance to the trainee. Elements of the academic half-day are devoted towards concept and design, and helping trainees get their projects going. Projects will be reviewed and evaluated in a peer-review format at the conclusion of the training program, and submitted to the national meeting of the Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians and the annual Barry Rose Research day at the end of the second year.

 

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General Information

The mission of the Palliative Medicine Subspecialty Residency Program at the University of Toronto is to train outstanding palliative care subspecialists who will use clinical, academic and scholarly skills throughout their future careers to improve the quality of death and dying for patients and family members.

The training program is designed to provide a strong knowledge base for trainees from all backgrounds. Trainees are provided a broad range of supervised clinical experiences from the entire field of adult and pediatric palliative care, including both cancer and non-cancer illness, to allow trainees to develop competence in their own areas of interest. The program offers the potential to pursue diverse scholarly and academic elements, allowing trainees to develop the skills that will make them leaders in an expanding field of medicine. Because our trainees come from a variety of clinical backgrounds, and may choose to pursue careers in different areas of palliative medicine, we aim to ensure that our training program offers academic rigor as well as flexibility.

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Salary Information

Post graduate salaries and benefits differ by province and are determined by two things: your training year, and the province you work in. See below the salaries and benefits for University of Toronto - Adult Palliative Medicine - Toronto.
Ontario
Effective October 4th, 2023 
PGY1
$67,044.99
PGY2
$72,804.48
PGY3
$78,190.61
PGY4
$84,712.26
PGY5
$90,073.03
PGY6
$95,190.86
PGY7
$99,836.15
PGY8
$105,844.41
PGY9
$109,734.47
Professional Leave
7 working days/year
Additional time off provided for writing any CND or US certification exam, leave includes the exam date and reasonable travel time to and from the exam site. Additional RCPSC & CFPC Certification Examination
Prep Time
  1. Subject to operational requirements and at the request of a resident, a resident will not be scheduled for call duties for a period up to fourteen days prior to a CFPC or RCPSC certification exam.
  2. Subject to operational requirements and at the request of a resident, a resident *will be granted up to seven consecutive days off during one of the four week*s preceding a CFPC or RCPSC certification exam.
Annual Vacation
4 weeks
Meal Allowance
No
Frequency of Calls
1 in 4 In-hospital, 1 in 3 home
Pregnancy Leave
17 weeks
Parental Leave
35 weeks, 37 weeks if resident did not take pregnancy leave
Supplemental Unemployment Benefit (SUB) Plan
Top-up to 84% 27 weeks for women who take pregnancy and parental leave; 12 weeks for parents on stand-alone parental leave.
Provincial Health Insurance
Yes
Extended Health Insurance
Yes
Provincial Dues (% of salary)
1.3%
Dental Plan
85% paid for eligible expenses
CMPA Dues Paid
Under current arrangements, residents are rebated by Ministry of Health and Long Term Care for dues in excess of $300.
Long-Term Disability Insurance
Yes – 70% of salary, non-taxable.
Statutory and Floating Holidays
2 weeks leave with full pay and benefits;
10 stat days plus 1 personal floater.
Residents are entitled to at least 5 consecutive days off over the Christmas or New Year period, which accounts for 3 statutory holidays (Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day), and 2 weekend days.
Life Insurance
Yes, 2x salary
Salary and Benefit Continuance
A resident that can’t work due to illness or injury will have salary and benefits maintained for 6 months or until end of appointment (whichever occurs first)
Call Stipend
Regular:
$127.60 in-hospital; $63.80 home call or qualifying shift on shift-based services.
Weekend premium:
$140.36 in-hospital; $70.18 home call or qualifying shift on shift-based services.
Updated October 4, 2023

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