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:
Preparing New Tutors for Success: Making the Most of Small Group Learning
Presented by Dr. Wendy Stewart
Saturday, May 24, 2025, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
In-person event, Cape Breton Medical Campus (CBMC)
Fee $0
Limited to 15 to allow for guided, small group learning.
REGISTER: CBMC Preparing New Tutors for Success
After this session, participants will be able to:
1. Describe the curriculum structure, content, and key components specific to case-based learning
2. Identify teaching methods and strategies to effectively deliver Dalhousie's medical education curriculum.
3. Access and utilize available resources and support systems to enhance the course delivery.
4. Demonstrate skills to assess student performance.
Open to CBMC faculty only
For more information, please contact: katie.macleod@dal.ca
Earn up to 2.0 Mainpro+® Certified Activity and MOC credits!
Upcoming:
Engage your learners! Effective facilitation in small group learning.
Facilitated by Dr. Wendy Stewart
Mondays, May 26, June 2, 9 & 16, 2025, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Online course
Fee $0
Limited to 15 to allow for guided, small group learning.
REGISTER: Engage Your Learners
After this session, participants will be able to:
1. Apply the principles of active learning in small group facilitation.
2. Demonstrate skills to engage different types of learners in small groups.
3. Explain how to navigate the challenges of facilitating small groups virtually or in hybrid formats.
4. Demonstrate how to provide constructive learner feedback.
Open to CBMC faculty. DMNS, DMNB are welcome to be waitlisted.
For more information, please contact: katie.macleod@dal.ca
Earn up to 8.0 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.