Glendon Tait MD MSC FRCPC FCPA

Biography

Dr. Glendon Tait is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Director of Student Assessment for the MD Program. Dr. Tait practices Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry with Sinai Health System, caring for patients with comorbid mental and physical health conditions. He is a Centre Researcher in the Wilson Centre for Research in Education.

Dr. Tait completed a B.A. (Hons) from the University of New Brunswick, an M.Sc. from the University of Alberta, and M.D. from the University of Calgary. He subsequently completed his residency in psychiatry at the University of Toronto and a Fellowship in Health Professions Education Research at the Wilson Centre for Research in Education at the University of Toronto.

Having served in several national leadership capacities, he is currently the President of the Canadian Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine and is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychiatric Association.

Quote from the Winner

One of the most important and therapeutic things we can “do” for a patient is to witness their story and authentically sit with and tolerate their distress. Our ability to do this is enriched to a great extent by our experience as humans in pursuits and relationships outside of medicine. As one of my longest standing mentors always says, “Life is to be lived.”

About the Award

These awards are named after William Thomas Aikins, the first Dean of the Faculty of Medicine after its reorganization in1887. They are the Faculty’s most prestigious awards in the MD Program. They were established to recognize and formally reward outstanding teachers in the areas of Individual Teaching Performance (Foundations and Clerkship), Development and Use of Educational Innovations, and Course / Program Development and Coordination. Recipients of these awards have significantly contributed to high-quality undergraduate teaching by establishing and integrating new and effective methods of instruction into the curriculum.