Description: Target audience: Teachers working in clinical settings who are called upon to provide written feedback for their learners on their clinical performance. Rationale: Emphasis on formative feedback and documentation of assessment requires teachers to provide frequent written feedback for their learners. This session is designed to help make this task easier. Learning Objectives: After (more…)

Description: Many teachers in health professions programs also play the role of coach. However, what coaching entails is not always clear. In this session, participants will reflect on principles of coaching and coaching behaviours in order to clarify roles and choose their actions accordingly. Learning Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be (more…)

During this workshop key concepts that will assist health professional educators in implementing Indigenous health education in response to the TRC Calls to Action will be discussed along with suggestions and practices to facilitate these critical dialogues in the learning and work environment.   Learning Objectives: After completing this session, participants will be able to: (more…)

Cancer Day for Primary Care is a biennial full day education symposium dedicated to topics at the interface of primary care and oncology.  This year, topics will focus on Immunotherapy and will include lectures, panel presentations, and interactive discussions to provide attendees with practical and relevant information about the application of immunotherapies in cancer treatment, (more…)

The George & Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation (CHI) and Rady Faculty of Health Sciences College of Nursing are pleased to partner together for this workshop. Objectives: To become familiar with a variety of knowledge synthesis products, including: scoping reviews, overviews of systematic reviews, systematic reviews of observational studies and qualitative reviews. To understand (more…)

Teaching dossiers are a critical component of your academic dossier.  Required for promotion and tenure, they are a record of your philosophy of teaching and how it is enacted through your teaching practice, as well as a record of your teaching activities. Learning Objectives: By attending this session, you will be able to create a (more…)

Neuro-developmental Disorders Across the Lifespan LaVerendrye Room, Hotel Fort Garry The MPA welcomes you to our Sixth Annual Spring Scientific Conference. Registration for the MPA Conference INCLUDES COMPLIMENTARY ADMISSION to the Canadian Psychiatric Association (CPA) annual Continuing Professional Development Institute, to be held May 6 from 1:30 – 5:00 pm in the LaVerendrye Room. Sunday (more…)

Learning Objectives: This workshop aims to meet the needs of healthcare practitioners seeking to explore creative and reflective writing, as well as those looking to inform their professional practice with narrative approaches to health and medicine. The workshop will begin by introducing the elements of writing practice and the essentials of close reading, to be (more…)

This event is sponsored by the Alan Klass Medical Humanities Program, The Department of Internal Medicine, and the Office of Educational and Faculty Development. Learning Objectives: This seminar will review the origins and evolution of the growing field of Narrative Medicine, highlighting the role of reading and reflective writing in developing narrative competence. Practical applications/strategies for developing a more narratively informed clinical practice will (more…)

There is a growing body of research that suggests that exposing health professions learners to the humanities (including literature, film, poetry, and visual arts) fosters enhanced critical reflection and empathy in provider-patient encounters.  Furthermore, such exposure celebrates the subjective and emotional facets of learning alongside more conventional scientific/evidence-based approaches. Learning Objectives: Learn approaches to teaching (more…)