The Wilson Centre is a world leader in advancing the education and practice of health care professionals through research. We support the education-oriented research programs of eight full time PhD scientists and many clinician-researchers, addressing topics ranging from the acquisition and evaluation of basic surgical skills to the development and understanding of communication and professionalism.

The scientists and clinician-researchers of the Wilson Centre are strongly dedicated to developing new researchers in this vital and growing field of study, and the Wilson Centre Fellowship Program is designed to support these efforts. Wilson Centre Fellows are given a place to work and learn where they receive intensive mentoring in a community of researchers from many academic disciplines and many health professional backgrounds. The level of mentoring and breadth of interdisciplinary and interprofessional interactions develops scholars who are well prepared to engage in their own program of high quality research, to collaborate with a diverse set of research colleagues, and to train the next generation of researchers into this field. Our Fellows are the future leaders in health professional education.

The Wilson Centre Fellowship has been highly successful. As of June, 2005, forty-seven fellows from around the world have completed the fellowship. Although the fellowship was once populated entirely by MD clinicians, the variety of backgrounds has expanded impressively in the last several years to include, in addition to medicine, clinical fields such as physical therapy, dentistry, nursing, and nutrition sciences, and academic fields such as psychology, English, kinesiology, education, political science, literature and theatre. Further, the life experiences of these individuals are rich and varied, adding still more to the diversity of the health professional education research field.

To apply or for more information please review the Wilson Centre Fellowship Procedures pdf.