Continuing Professional Development & Medical Education

Faculty of Medicine

Professional Development Seminar Series

 

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When possible, our webinar seminars are recorded and available for Dalhousie faculty to view at a later time. Contact facdev@dal.ca for more information on viewing past seminars.

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Interesting seminars (webinars and podcasts) from expert faculty and presenters

Join us for the ever changing Faculty Development offerings via the Professional Development Seminar Series. This Series will include a multi-pronged and multimedia approach to the information you need to develop skills, knowledge, and connection delivered by content experts, thought leaders and innovators. The online nature of the live or recorded webinars and podcasts means you can access from whenever you have time and wherever you have internet, allowing you to attend in real time or watch/listen when convenient. The topics presented will be selected by faculty leaders in the five thematic areas outlined below:

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: 

1. Define the key characteristics of effective feedback in clinical education.
2. Identify opportunities for providing timely and constructive feedback in clinical settings.
3. Demonstrate how to deliver feedback using a structured approach.
4. Apply techniques to ensure feedback is specific, objective, and actionable.
5. 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! 

Medical Education Research Roundtables

Led by Dr. Sarah Burm

When: second Tuesday of each month from 12-1:30 pm via MS Teams

October 8: The Art of the Academic CV: Strategies for Showcasing your Skills and Professional Achievements Dr. Lara Hazelton & Dr. Sarah Burm

November 12: Help me Understand….Authorship Dr. Sarah Burm

December 10: Rescheduled to January 14 

January 14: Rigour in Qualitative Inquiry Dr. Jacqueline Torti, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University (UWO)

February 11: Using an Ethnographic Approach to Explore Anti-Oppression in Case Diversification Anne Mahalik and Dr. Lynette Reid

March 11: TO BE RESCHEDULED- Revealing, Critiquing, Challenging – the Role of Critical Research in Medical Education Dr. Monica Molinaro, McGill University

April 8: Developing and revising an interview guide for quality interviews: A real-life example Dr. Dawn Burleigh, University of Lethbridge & Dr. Sarah Burm, Dalhousie University

May 13: A behind the scenes description of: His Opportunity, Her Burden: A narrative critical review of why women decline academic opportunities Drs. Monteiro & Kahlke, McMaster University

June 10: Everyday clinicians getting into medical education research: Inspirations and “ick” factors Drs. Padraig Casey, Cheryl Murphy, and Allan Tran, Dalhousie University

More info: https://medicine.dal.ca/departments/core-units/cpd/research/ResearchEvents.html

Humanities

Led by Dr. Aruna Dhara and Dr. Wendy Stewart

From the visual and performing arts to the history of medicine, we believe in the value of having medical professionals and faculty engage in the humanities. Wherever you are in your career or your lifelong learning there is something for everyone to gain from humanizing medicine. Integrating medical humanities will: stimulate your creativity; sustain your energy; support the compassion required to provide excellence in care; develop your capacity for critical thinking and improve your communication and advocacy skills.

Anti-Oppression (EDIA)

Led by Dr. Gaynor Watson-Creed and Dr. Shawna O'Hearn

White Fragility Clinics (WFC)

Each session is set as an open discussion platform to explore, in a brave and non-judgmental space, issues including the concept of whiteness, white fragility, and its role in racism.

Register for a White Fragility Clinic. 2024-25 dates are below and listed again for your convenience in the registration link. All session are on MS Teams, and run from 1-2 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

2024
Tuesday, October 22 (11 a.m. -12 p.m.)
Tuesday, November 5
Thursday, November 21
Thursday, December 5 & 19

2025
Thursday, January 16 & 30, 2025
Thursday, February 13 (11 a.m. to 12 noon)
Thursday, February 27
Thursday, March 13 & 27
Thursday, April 10 (11 a.m. to 12 noon)
Thursday, April 24
Thursday, May 8 & 22
Thursday, June 5 & 19

Join us as we seek to understand our experiences and/or observation of oppression towards priority communities within the Maritimes and beyond. Learn skills to effectively create and support an anti-oppressive working and learning environment.  These adeptly curated and insightful sessions will be hosted by the Serving and Engaging Society office.

Please watch this space for additional programs.

Simulation

Led by Dr. Tania Sullivan

Wellness and Leadership

Led by Dr. Katrina Hurey & Dr. Roberta Preston (Wellness) and Dr. Meredith Chiasson (Leadership)

The Faculty Wellness team welcome and invite you to our professional development series. These sessions have been designed to begin to address the seven drivers of burnout as discussed in the literature including: workload and job demands, efficiency and resources, meaning in work, culture and values, control and flexibility, social support and community at work, and work-life integration. These sessions will focus on personal promotion and leadership skill development and will develop your ability and inspiration to reach for the next level or to lead with confidence from where you are now. 

Please watch this space for future dates.

Leadership PRN series:  Leadership PRN is Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine’s podcast for leaders whether formal or informal, established or emerging.  Each episode, Dr. Lara Hazelton speaks with local experts about the joys and challenges of leading in the medical environment.  

Online modules

We are developing a series of online modules on relevant medical education topics to support our themes. These modules will be housed on our FacDev Brightspace site. To be enrolled, please contact us at facdev@dal.ca.