Fostering Adaptive Expertise in the Health Professions

This workshop engages participants in reflective activities and discussions about desirable and undesirable professional behaviours and the bi-directional relationships that exist between these behaviours, healthcare professional wellness, and the creation of psychologically and culturally safe environments.

Join this practical and thought-provoking workshop to strengthen your ability to design, critique, and refine performance-based assessments that are meaningful, fair, and defensible.

Build confidence in your clinical teaching with tools you can apply right away. This workshop offers foundational strategies to help you teach more effectively in busy, real-world clinical settings.

Build your confidence and foundational knowledge to begin using simulation as a practical, powerful teaching strategy. This workshop will leave you with a broad understanding of simulation and clear next steps to explore its integration into your own work.

Are you interested in further developing your mentorship skills? Join this interactive session to strengthen your skills as a mentor and become a more intentional and confident mentor within your clinical or academic setting.

This workshop provides a framework for embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into CPD instructional design and delivery. We discuss how to create equitable, accessible and inclusive learning environments through the application of a health equity and inclusion framework.

Are you new to curriculum design or looking to refresh your knowledge? This interactive session is ideal for those stepping into education roles or exploring curriculum development.

Develop confidence and flexibility in your feedback approach. Through evidence-informed frameworks and hands-on practice, this workshop equips you to turn everyday conversations into powerful opportunities for learning and development.

Join this workshop to strengthen your ability to use surveys wisely and effectively—so your survey tools produce data that advance both scholarship and practice in health professions education.

If you're beginning to explore or step into leadership roles—formally or informally—this workshop will provide a supportive space to clarify your goals, build on your strengths, and take steps toward growth in your leadership journey.

This workshop provides participants with the opportunity to both explore wellness tensions and identify ways to address them. Participants identify where tensions exist for their own roles that impact wellbeing and discuss approaches to ‘navigating’ these tensions.

Deepen your understanding of how patients and people with lived experience can meaningfully contribute to health professions education. Whether you're new to this work or looking to strengthen existing practices, you’ll leave with clearer goals, ethical insights, and a personalized plan to support inclusive, respectful, and impactful patient involvement.

This workshop is focused on the alignment between curriculum, instructional practice, and subsequent assessment. We look at current theory on how assessment practices can shape and enhance learning and work on practical exercise to apply this knowledge to individual assessment practice.

Join us to gain valuable insights into the paradigms that shape education and learn how to align your teaching, curriculum design and assessment practices to create more effective and meaningful learning experiences.

This workshop is an introduction to collaborative learning. It introduces participants to the evidence, best practices and principles for teaching collaboratively. Participants will have the opportunity to develop a mini workshop and practice collaborative learning facilitation in the virtual setting.

Whether you're creating your first dossier or refining an existing one, this workshop will help you move forward with clarity and confidence—transforming your dossier into a reflective and strategic showcase of your work as an educator.

This workshop offers a thorough overview of the various forms of educational scholarship and their connection to the university's mission. It also provides strategies for showcasing impact and documenting scholarly contributions in teaching, innovation, curriculum development, research, and advocacy for academic promotion.

Whether you're new to program evaluation or refining your approach, this workshop will help you think critically and creatively about evaluation—so your efforts lead to deeper insights and more meaningful data-driven change.

Are you interested in reducing barriers to learning and responding to the increasing variability amongst students in today’s classroom? This workshop will explore the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) model—a set of principles for curriculum development, engagement and assessment that can help you create an more inclusive learning environment that responds to diverse student needs and learning preferences.

Utilizing short didactic presentations, group discussions, small group activities as well as case scenarios, this highly interactive workshop will provide an overview of the role, scope, strategies and resources faculty/preceptors/supervisors should consider in order to support learners who witness or experience mistreatment.

Participants will have an opportunity to explore the instructional design strategy, productive failure, and how it can support the development of adaptive expertise. We will define productive failure, describe how productive failure has been used in health professions education, and illustrate how participants can use productive failure design approaches in their practice.

Are you someone who is in a leadership role or responsible influencing people/change and looking to enhance the performance or support the development of another in the areas of teaching, leadership, scholarship and advocacy? Join this interactive workshop to strengthen your ability to support others through coaching—not only improving teaching performance but also cultivating a culture of continuous growth and professional development.

This workshop will provide participants with opportunities to practice new techniques that will help them be calmer, clearer and more confident when dealing with learners in difficulty.

In the academic health sciences systems we work in, we are constantly adapting to new knowledge, ideas, changing environments and emerging needs. In these dynamic environments, how do we influence or lead intentional change that has the impact we hope for? In this workshop, we will explore an approach to leading inclusive, sustainable change.

Looking to grow your facilitation skills? Join us in this interactive workshop that will support you in gaining valuable insights into key principles of facilitation and encouraging engagement both virtually and in-person.

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The rapid advancement of generative AI is poised to fundamentally transform the landscape of health professions education and practice. Join us in this timely and important conversation as we jointly envision the future of health professions education in the age of generative AI.

This workshop provides an overview of implementing integrated instruction into current educational practices. Participants will explore the various applications of integrated instruction and identify opportunities and practice applying this teaching strategy into their current practice.

Securing grant funding is essential for advancing research and scholarship in health professions education (HPE). This interactive workshop is designed to equip health professionals—across disciplines and career stages—with practical skills and strategies for developing and writing grant proposals in HPE.

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In this interactive workshop, participants will gain a practical understanding of the theoretical foundations of CoPs and how they can be used effectively.

Take your use of cases to the next level! This workshop will help you design cases and case-based learning to achieve deep engagement and extraordinary learning outcomes.

This workshop seeks to better-equip faculty to meaningfully integrate planetary health into their teaching by building their knowledge base, providing them with pedagogical tools and guidance, and connecting them with a like-minded interdisciplinary academic community.