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, or you want to better understand AI, we offer a variety of learning opportunities to help you achieve your professional goals.
Upcoming:
The Art of Feedback: Effective Strategies for Physician Educators
Presented by Meredith Chiasson, MD, FRCPC
Monday, May 5, 2025; 6:30-7:30 p.m. , online (MS Teams)
Fee $30
60-minute interactive session, including role play, feedback and Q&A.
Limited to 4.
REGISTER: The Art of Feedback: Effective Strategies for Physician Educators - Welcome
After this session, participants will be able to:
Define the key characteristics of effective feedback in clinical education.
Identify opportunities for providing timely and constructive feedback in clinical settings.
Demonstrate how to deliver feedback using a structured approach
Apply techniques to ensure feedback is specific, objective, and actionable.
Practice delivering feedback in challenging situations, such as addressing medical errors or professionalism concerns.
Open to DMNS
For more information, please contact: facdev@dal.ca
Earn up to 1.0 Mainpro+® Certified Activity and MOC credits!
Upcoming:
Building Confidence with Teaching Technologies
Presented by Dr. Katie MacLeod
Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 9:30-11:00 a.m.
In-person event, Cape Breton Medical Campus (CBMC)
Fee $0
Limited to 15 to allow for guided, small group learning.
REGISTER: Building Confidence with Teaching Technologies
After this session, participants will be able to:
1. Identify and navigate the key features of Brightspace, including accessing course content, assignments, and assessments.
2. Navigate and utilize the key features of Microsoft 365 as resources to enhance the course delivery, including creating presentations with PowerPoint, storing and sharing files in OneDrive.
3. Effectively use basic technology tools, such as email and online discussion boards to facilitate communication and collaboration with students.
Open to CBMC faculty only
For more information, please contact: katie.macleod@dal.ca
Earn up to 1.5 Mainpro+® Certified Activity and MOC credits!
Future 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.