Clinician-Researcher Track (CResT)

As the home of the largest psychiatry residency training program in Canada, the Department of Psychiatry in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto is committed to training of the next generation of physician-scientists and academic psychiatrists. The Clinician-Researcher Track (CResT) provides a fully integrated research training experience embedded in a psychiatry residency program. CResT is a new direct entry residency program in psychiatry at the University of Toronto. This unique residency track is designed for graduating medical students with prior research training who are highly motivated to pursue careers as clinician scientists or scholars conducting basic, translational, clinical, or public health research, or scholarship in education, quality improvement, the humanities, or social sciences. The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto is consistently ranked among the top 10 institutions in the world for clinical training and research in neuroscience and psychiatry with a track record of producing leaders in the field of brain sciences and academic psychiatry.