Programs
Enhance your skills
Build the confidence and skills you need to consistently improve your abilities as an educator, academic or scholar. Whether you want to learn how to provide better feedback to your students or you’d like to become a tutor, we offer a variety of learning opportunities to help you achieve your professional goals.
Upcoming:
Using AI to Create Learning Objectives
Presented by Dr. Natalie Lutwick
Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Fee $30
Limited to 20 to allow for guided, small group learning.
REGISTER: Using AI to Create Learning Objectives
After this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify and apply key principles for writing clear, explicit, and measurable learning objectives that align with instructional goals and assessment criteria.
- Utilize AI tools to generate and refine learning objectives by improving clarity, specificity, and alignment with Bloom’s taxonomy and other relevant frameworks.
- Critically evaluate and enhance AI-generated and participant-written learning objectives by applying best practices for objective design.
Open to all FofM faculty- DMNS, DMNB, CBMC
For more information, please contact: facdev@dal.ca
Earn up to 1.5 Mainpro+® Certified Activity and MOC credits!
Regular offerings:
Fundamentals of Teaching Program
A series of online courses to aid faculty in honing their teaching skills.
- Creating a Healthy Learning Environment (CHLE)
- Support psychologically safety and productive learning.
- Educating for Medical Professionalism and Wellness
- Promote professionalism in the context of medical education.
- Emerging Leaders in Academic Medicine (ELAM)
- Enhance your leadership skills and understanding of the Faculty of Medicine.
- Expand your Bandwidth! Effective use of technology in teaching! (XBIT)
- Effectively integrate technology into teaching whether online, hybrid or face-to-face.
Professional Development Seminar Series
- A variety of mostly 1 hour seminars offered through webinars, workshops and in-person, with a focus on the following five themes: Fundamentals of Teaching and Research, Humanities, Anti-Oppression (EDIA), Simulation, and Wellness and Leadership.
Supporting Diverse, Inclusive and Anti-Oppressive Learning Environments in the Faculty of Medicine (aka EDIA course)
- Educational modules for Faculty and Educators.
Tutor Skill Development Program
- Develop your skills to facilitate small-group learning.
Medical Education Day (MEDay)
-An annual day-long workshop-based Faculty Development event, often in November.