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 Directors of Faculty Development are busy designing an exciting and educational selection of courses and workshops beginning September, 2025.
If you have suggestions, please email facdev@dal.ca. Thank you!
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 (also known as EDIA course)
- Educational modules for faculty and educators that discuss why there's a need to change, Explore and expand your knowledge of anti-oppressive practices.
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, usually in November.