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Our Mission Statement

• To achieve global impact in patient care, research and education.

• The Mission of the Department of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto is, within the framework of the faculty's own mission statement, to provide excellence and international leadership in all aspects of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, by teaching, undertaking research in this and related areas, and providing exemplary clinical practice in the broad field covered by the discipline.

1. The teaching of fundamental skills and basic understanding of otolaryngology to undergraduates and the fully rounded training of postgraduates are deemed of equal importance. The department also teaches allied health care professionals and has responsibility in Continuing Medical Education.
2. The mission of the department in research is to give priority (without weighting) to the field of communicative disorders, clinical epidemiology, neuro-otology, oncology, psycho-acoustics, respiratory physiology and auditory and vestibular physiology. Research priorities are seen to stem from clinical questions although research itself may be quite basic.
3. The clinical mission of the department is to provide exemplary clinical practice in the areas of medical care in which our staff engage, under the broad headings of general otolaryngology, communicative disorders, facial plastic and reconstructive surgery, head & neck oncology, neuro-otology, paediatric otolaryngology, and rhinology. Exemplary is defined as excellent practice in numbers large enough to maintain and improve the skills of the teachers and to allow the pursuit of the remainder of the department's mission.

Our primary postgraduate mission is to train Canadians for practice in Canada but we also have an international mission.

We have a strong tradition of training fellows from other countries at a post-residency level. This we believe to be beneficial in terms of international relationships, prestige of the University of Toronto, improvement in training of our own residents and fellows by virtue of contact with those from overseas and because of the openings that it makes for our own post-residency trainees to have additional training elsewhere.

Secondly, we perceive a mission to train practitioners from the Third World for practice in the Third World funded from sources outside our Ministry of Health allotment.

These goals will be achieved by:

1. Endeavouring to provide the highest possible quality of otolaryngological care.
2. Providing stimulating teaching to undergraduates, residents, fellows, practitioners and other health care workers.
3. Striving to create and maintain an atmosphere that fosters an alert academic/scientific attitude, and attempting to transmit this viewpoint to students at all levels.
4. Establishing a working environment that will attract and hold people with outstanding professional and personal qualifications.

 

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