Glendon Tait

Dr. Glendon Tait is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is Director of Admissions and Student Finances for the Temerty Medicine MD Program. Dr. Tait practices Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at Sinai Health and is a Scholar at the Wilson Centre.

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 completed both his residency in psychiatry and a Fellowship in Health Professions Education Research at the Wilson Centre for Research in Education at the University of Toronto.

As the previous Director of Student Assessment, Dr. Tait led the implementation of programmatic assessment in the MD program, shifting more emphasis to the feedback, coaching, and learning learning functions of assessment. Dr. Tait has published and presented widely in the area, including consensus guidelines, implementation and change aspects, competency committee decision making and learner impacts. Dr. Tait is Past-President of the Canadian Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.

Dr. Tait’s education awards include the University of Toronto W.T. Aikins Award for Excellence in Development and Use of Educational Innovations (2020), the Canadian Association for Medical Education Certificate of Merit (2022) and the Medical Council of Canada Outstanding Achievement Award in the Evaluation of Clinical Competence. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychiatric Association.