Research Interests

Education Scholarship (Serious Games, Competency-Based Medical Education), Gender Equity within Emergency Medicine, Leadership in Academic Medicine

Spotlight

Dr. Teresa Chan is a Canadian emergency physician and medical educator. On July 15, 2023 she became the Founding Dean of the Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) School of Medicine. She is a nationally-recognized researcher & educator. She has received the 2021 Early Career Medical Educator's Champion award, the 2019 Canadian Association of Medical Education Meridith Marks New Educator Award, the 2020 Ian Stiell Researcher of the Year award from the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians, 2017 Young Educator's Award from the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada, and 2021 Royal College Award for Early-Career Leadership in Medical Education.

Dr. Chan is very well known for her scholarship in faculty development and online education research. She is one of the founding members of the METRIQ Study group. She is the Chief Strategic Officer for the CanadiEM digital community of practice. She is a Senior Advisor of the international Faculty Incubator program for the Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM) group. For ALiEM, she has also served on their Editorial Board and was a lead of the Medical Education in Cases Series (www.aliem.com/medic). Dr. Chan is also interested in developing medical education innovations (and evaluating them!). For instance, she has co-developed and led the evaluation of a serious game about emergency department flow called GridlockED (www.gridlockedgame.com).

Selected Publications

Chan TM, Thoma B, Finnell JT, et al. Precision medicine within health professions education: Defining a research agenda for emergency medicine using a foresight and strategy technique (FaST) review. AEM Educ Train. 2024; 8(Suppl. 1): S5–S16. doi:10.1002/aet2.1098

Edwards, Sarah L. BMBS, MSc (MedEd), MSc (PEM); Zarandi, Aryana; Cosimini, Michael MD; Chan, Teresa M. MD, MHPE, MBA; Abudukebier, Monica; Stiver, Mikaela L. PhD. Analog Serious Games for Medical Education: A Scoping Review. Academic Medicine 100(3):p 375-387, March 2025. | DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000005911  DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000005911

Ramelli S, Lal S, Sherbino J, Dickson G, Chan TM. LEADS+ Developmental Model: Proposing a new model based on an integrative conceptual review. Med Educ. 2023; 57(9): 857-869. doi:10.1111/medu.15062