ALT A poster for national Nursing week that has a collage of nurses in different settings and the words: Our nurses. Our future. National Nursing week May 8-14, 2023. Celebrating the many roles that nurses play in a patient's health-care journey.

ALT Professionalism Moment Courtesy of the Culture of Excellence Project Team, February 2023 In honour of Black History Month, the Culture of Excellence Project Team would like to celebrate Canada’s first Black doctors – Dr. Alexander Thomas Augusta and Dr. Anderson Ruffin Abbott. Augusta was born in 1825 in Virginia and studied medicine at Trinity College (University of Toronto) after being denied access to medical school in the United States. He became the first Black person in Canada to practice medicine. Abbott was born in 1837 in Toronto and worked under Augusta’s supervision. He became the first Black Canadian to practice medicine. Both men served with the Union Army as medics during the American Civil War. Augusta became the first African-American surgeon commissioned in the Army and the highest ranking Black officer in the Army. He later became the first Black professor of medicine in the United States.