Temerty Faculty of Medicine 🩺: Finding Your Rhythm (and Housing) as a U of T Med Trainee

Sunday, April 19, 2026

The University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine—now proudly called the Temerty Faculty of Medicine since September 2020—has been shaping physicians since 1843, and you can feel that history in the air the moment you start picturing your first day. It's also huge in the best way: the Faculty serves a large, culturally diverse community through 9 fully affiliated hospitals and 18 community affiliated sites, which means your learning won't stay stuck in one building or one neighborhood. It moves, it breathes, it changes—kind of like you will.

Two campuses, four academies, one big decision (that lasts)

The MD Program runs across two distinct campus communities: the historic St. George campus in downtown Toronto and the modern Mississauga campus. New students are assigned to either St. George or Mississauga, and those assignments stick for all four years. At St. George, you'll be placed into one of three academies after admissions; Mississauga offers are automatically placed with the Mississauga Academy of Medicine. It's a long-term setup, so your daily commute and your “home base” really matters—like, a lot.

• FitzGerald Academy: anchored by St. Michael's Hospital, plus St. Joseph's Health Centre and The Hospital for Sick Children, with a supportive teaching environment.
• Mississauga Academy of Medicine (MAM): established in 2011, anchored at Trillium Health Partners with multiple sites like Mississauga Hospital and Credit Valley Hospital.
• Peters-Boyd Academy: includes Sunnybrook, Women's College Hospital, and North York General—busy, broad, and full of variety.
• Wightman-Berris Academy: built around UHN and Sinai Health System, with learning that can extend to places like CAMH and Baycrest too.

Why MedsHousing.com fits into this picture

When your schedule goes bam-bam-bam—lecture, skills, hospital, repeat—housing stops being “just a place to sleep.” You want something that supports your training life: predictable, practical, and close enough that you're not wasting your best brain-hours on transit stress. That's where MedsHousing.com comes in: it's designed specifically for medical students, residents, fellows, and medical trainees and their families—not for patients or sick people, but for the people doing the training and the work. And honestly, that focus matters, because your needs are different.

Whether you're based at St. George, Mississauga, or rotating across the GTA during clerkship, the Temerty network is wide—so your housing plan should be flexible too. Some days will feel smooth… other days, not so much, and that's okay. You'll want a home that lets you exhale. A place where you can drop your bag, hear the quiet go shhh, and reset for tomorrow, even if tomorrow starts early.

One more thing: your academy assignment is for four years, so don't rush the housing decision. Pick a setup that matches your real life—study time, family time, sleep time. Because if your home works, your whole week works better. It's not perfect grammar but it's true.

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