About CME GTA
CME built for the way community physicians actually work.
A locally-hosted continuing education program for primary care and community specialists across the Greater Toronto Area — anchored at Ajax Harwood Clinic in Durham Region, run by a family physician for family physicians.
Why
Why this exists
Community physicians across the GTA — and especially in the Ajax–Pickering corridor where I practice — do exceptional work. But most of our continuing education options have meant a commute downtown and an evening of competing voices from large academic centres. The talks are often excellent. They're often not what we actually face in clinic on Monday morning.
Most of what we deal with in community practice isn't the rarefied stuff. It's the patient who hasn't checked their A1c in two years. The grandparent with new-onset AFib. The teenager whose ADHD assessment is now your job because the wait list at SickKids is eighteen months. The mental health crisis we triage before lunch and again at 4:45 PM.
CME GTA exists to bring relevant, evidence-based CME to physicians where they live and work. We host journal clubs (informal, dinner-included, no pharma), accredited Mainpro+ sessions on topics our colleagues actually face, and the occasional sponsored lecture on emerging therapies — always under strict IMC Code review so the content stays independent. The program is anchored at Ajax Harwood Clinic in Durham Region, with plans to host sessions at partner venues across the GTA as the calendar grows.
The goal is simple. When you leave one of our sessions, you should have something you can use in clinic on Monday.
Who
Who's behind this
Dr. Carlos Yu, MD, CCFP
Family physician · Ajax Harwood Clinic
Family medicine in Ajax since [year — placeholder]. Trained at the University of Toronto. Outside the clinic: keeping up with three kids, running the Rouge trails on Saturday mornings, occasionally baking a passable sourdough.
I started CME GTA because I wanted the kind of CME I kept wishing existed for our community — local, practical, peer-driven, and honest about what we do and don't know. We anchor the program here at Ajax Harwood Clinic and open it up across the GTA. If that sounds useful to you, come to a session.
What
What you'll find here
Journal clubs
Monthly informal discussions of recent papers relevant to primary care. Dinner-included, no industry support, no slides. Just colleagues, the evidence, and the messy reality of applying it.
Accredited Mainpro+ sessions
1–2 hour CFPC-accredited lectures on clinical topics community physicians actually face — diabetes care, mental health triage, complex pain, evolving prescribing standards. Mainpro+ Group Learning credits.
Sponsored lectures on emerging therapies
Industry-supported but content-independent. Every pharma-sponsored talk is reviewed against the IMC Code of Ethical Practices before publication; speaker disclosures are read at the start of each session; sponsors have no role in content selection.
Where
Where we are
Ajax Harwood Clinic is in Ajax, Ontario — at the eastern edge of the GTA in Durham Region. Most journal-club sessions are hosted at AHC itself; sponsored lectures and larger events happen at partner venues across Durham (Pickering Casino Resort, Pickering Conference Centre) or downtown Toronto when the speaker or audience warrants it.
We're built for the catchment that includes Lakeridge Health Ajax-Pickering, the family practices and walk-in clinics across Ajax, Pickering, Whitby, and Oshawa, and the allied health providers who work alongside us.
Contact
Get in touch
- General inquiries: events@ajaxharwoodclinic.com
- Speaker proposals: same address — drop us a one-paragraph pitch.
- Topic suggestions: same address — what would you want a lecture on? We're a small team and read everything.
- Sponsorship inquiries: read the sponsorship page first, then write to the same address.