William (Bill) Coke, BA, MDCM, FRCP (C)
Clinical Director, Hospitalist Program, UHN
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Bill Coke graduated from McGill Medical School and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at the Mayo Clinic, including a year as a fellow in General Internal Medicine. He returned to McGill University as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar to pursue further training in Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
After completing his training, Dr. Coke joined the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Manitoba where he served as the Internal Medicine Program Director, the Director of Post-Graduate Education for the Department of Medicine, and as the Director of Adult Ambulatory Care Services for the Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre. Since that time, he has completed terms as the Head of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Ottawa, and as the Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Alberta. He joined the Division of General Internal Medicine here at the U of T in 2007, and is currently the Clinical Director for the Hospitalist Program at the UHN.
Throughout this time, Dr. Coke has been heavily involved with the RCPSC, serving on the Credentials Committee, accreditation surveys, and as a member of the Specialty Training Committee in Internal Medicine. In the late 1980’s, he organized a series of workshops for the Internal Medicine Program Directors to revise the Specialty Training Requirements and Accreditation Guidelines for Internal Medicine, which framed the current core training requirements, and helped launch the Canadian Association of Internal Medicine Program Directors. He is a past chair of the RCPSC Internal Medicine Examination Committee, and chaired the Task Force to redevelop the Internal Medicine Certification Examinations. His academic interests include curriculum development, performance evaluation, and clinical teaching.