The Toronto Advantage
What makes the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto a dynamic centre for training, collaboration and innovation? Let us tell you…
We're People
58,000+
Alumni
7,600+
Students
1,464
Undergraduate students
68
MD/PhD students
2,500
Graduate students
2,097
Residents
1,558
Fellows
40,500+
Learners participated in Continuing Professional Development activities
8,144
Faculty members
951
Staff members
We're Multi-disciplinary
25
Departments
16
Interdisciplinary Centres/Institutes
79
Post MD programs
14
Graduate units spanning basic science, clinical, rehabilitation sciences, translational research, and health systems
9
Departments teaching undergraduate Arts & Science students
We’re Partners in Canada’s Single Payer System
9 Fully-affiliated hospitals
- Baycrest Health Sciences
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
- Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
- The Hospital for Sick Children
- St. Michael’s Hospital Site
- Sinai Health System:
- Bridgepoint Health
- Mount Sinai Hospital
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- University Health Network:
- Princess Margaret Hospital
- Toronto General Hospital
- Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
- Toronto Western Hospital
- Women's College Hospital
25 Community-affiliated hospitals and sites
- Humber River Hospital
- Lakeridge Health
- Markham-Stouffville Hospital
- Michael Garron Hospital
- North York General Hospital
- Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences
- Providence Healthcare
- Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre
- St. Joseph’s Health Centre
- Scarborough and Rouge Hospital
- Southlake Regional Health Centre
- Trillium Health Partners:
- Credit Valley Hospital
- Mississauga Hospital
- Queensway Health Centre
- Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care
- West Park Healthcare Centre
- William Osler Health System
How We Compare
We’re Canada’s top medical school and among the best in the world
Did you know this about U of T . . .
We’re the single largest contributor of physicians in Canada
Toronto’s the only city our size in the world with just one medical school
We’re 6th in the world for publications and citations in the 50 highest-impact journals in medicine and related fields
International Rankings
3rd
2019 National Taiwan University Ranking (Clinical Medicine)
4th
U.S. News & World Report (Clinical Medicine)
5th
ARWU Shanghai Ranking (Clinical Medicine)
6th
2019 Times Higher Education World University Rankings (Clinical, pre-clinical & health)
13th
2019 QS World University Ranking (Medicine)
How We Have Impact
We’re a huge research enterprise
$864M
Total funding
10,116
Total Awards
12,000+
Co-authored papers with researchers in 153 countries last year
12
New start-up companies*
52
New priority patent applications*
218
New invention disclosures*
*Over the last five years
Our Record of Success
For almost a century, the University of Toronto has delivered revolutionary advances in health research. This distinguished history of innovation positions us to tackle the biggest challenges in human health today.
1921
Insulin
Frederick Banting ’16, ’22, Charles Best ’21, ’25, J.B. Collip ’12, ’13 & J.J.R. Macleod
1930
Pablum
Frederick Tisdall ’16, Theodore Drake ’14 & Alan Brown
1936
Purification of Heparin
David A. Scott & Arthur F. Charles
1936
First Mobile Blood Transfusion Unit
Norman Bethune ‘16
1951
First Electronic Heart Pacemaker
Wilfrid G. Bigelow ’35, ‘38
1961
Discovery of Stem Cells
James Till & Ernest McCulloch ‘48
1981
The Glycemic Index
David Jenkins
1981
First Single Lung Transplant
Griffith Pearson ’49, ’52 & Joel Cooper
1984
T-Cell Receptor Gene
Tak Mak
1988
First Nerve Transplant
Alan Hudson & Susan MacKinnon
1989
The Cystic Fibrosis Gene
Lap-Chee Tsui
1991
Cell Receptor Discoveries Leading to the Development of New Cancer Drugs
Tony Pawson
1995
Discovery of Two Genes Responsible for Early-onset Alzheimer’s
Peter St. George-Hyslop
2010
Stem Cells Restore Sight to Blind Mice
Derek van der Kooy
2015
Opening the Blood-Brain Barrier
Todd Mainprize et al.