Foundations in Facilitation

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.

This workshop explains how to dissect performance-based assessments into component parts with explicit links to possible validity threats, apply validity concepts to better structure performance-based assessments and critically examine/evaluate performance-based assessment plans.

This workshop introduces key strategies related to teaching in the clinical setting. Participants will learn how to apply strategies to enhance the educational climate and compare/contrast different preceptorship models. We discuss the importance of transparency and non-hierarchical teaching approaches.

This workshop provides a foundational overview of implementing simulation into current practice by broadly introducing essential concepts of simulation. Participant will explore the various applications of simulation, and identify opportunities to apply simulation into current practice.

This workshop describes elements of effective mentoring relationships and some of the skills that are required to establish and maintain mentoring relationships. Participants review their role in the promotion of mentoring 'culture' in their organization.

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.

This workshop provides participants with the opportunity to reflect on both providing feedback from the teacher’s perspective and receiving feedback from the learner’s perspective. We will compare and contrast different “conversational choices” available to educators as part of their learning conversations.

The workshop explores the reasons for conducting surveys as well as how to optimize alignment between survey methods, scholarly questions, and research paradigms. Participants will be introduced to best practices for question development, survey administration, data analysis, and interpretation.

This workshop engages participants to reflect on their own existing leadership abilities and approaches and helps identify potential gaps in their skills and experience. We will work on developing action plans to help participants further develop as leaders.

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.

This workshop creates space for discussion/critical reflection on the myriad ways patients are and can be involved in HPE. We introduce a conceptual framework for understanding patient involvement, identify goals for involving patients, and discuss practices of patient involvement and their ethical implications.

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.

This workshop introduces participants to six paradigms of education relevant and prevalent in HPE. Participants are provided with an overview of each paradigm, how they are related to common education practices in HPE and how awareness of paradigmatic details and differences support aligned teaching/assessment approaches.

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.

This interactive and reflective workshop helps participants identify and name the power structures in which they operate. We will unpack and demystify key concepts often placed under the “EDI” umbrella, while regularly reflecting and dialoguing about how power underpins all of these concepts.

This interactive session provides an overview of the key components of an effective dossier, offering strategies for assembling and strengthening your own. Participants will explore how to craft a cohesive narrative that connects various sections and sources of evidence while aligning with institutional guidelines.

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.

This workshop explores how to engage in meaningful and practical program evaluation. Participants learn how to select, apply, and implement tailored approaches to program evaluation that can lead to positive curricular and system change.

This workshop will provide an opportunity for in-depth exploration of the science of adaptive expertise. We will describe the construct of adaptive expertise, present examples of evidence-based cognitive and curricular mechanisms that support development of adaptive expertise and help participants envision the translation of theoretical research into education practice.

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? In this applied workshop, we will explore how you can enhance your skills as a coach through Brief Solution Focused Coaching to support a colleague develop themselves at work or in the clinical academic environment.

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.

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The rapid advancement of generative AI is poised to fundamentally transform the landscape of health professions education and practice. In this workshop, we will explore the potentially profound implications of generative AI on the evolution of human expertise, and how this may impact educational priorities.

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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