Professional Development Seminar Series

Led by 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.

• Sessions will be posted as confirmed.

Led by Dr. Ange Cooper and Dr. Lara Hazelton

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. 

• June 7, 7:00-8:00 p.m. How to Teach Leadership: The Role of Character in Medical Education with Dr. Jacqueline Torti and Dr. Nabil Sultan via MS Teams

Led by Dr. Gaynor Watson-Creed

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 lead.

• June 8, 2022, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. White Fragility Clinic with Dr. Gaynor Watson-Creed and Dr. Eli Manning | Contact GHO@dal.ca to register
• June 23, 2022, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. White Fragility Clinic with Dr. Gaynor Watson-Creed and Dr. Eli Manning | Contact GHO@dal.ca to register

Led by Dr. Lisa Bonang and Dr. Sarah Burm

Led by our Medical Education Research and Scholarship team these research seminars will focus on helping to demystify and inspire you to the world of medical education research and scholarship. Effective teaching is an art that few have been trained for, but many have been asked to do.  With the changing needs of an ever-evolving learning environment, our Faculty Development lead will host educationally relevant topics geared to developing your skill and comfort, and subsequent enjoyment in the teaching realm.

• May 26, 2022, 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Professionalism, evaluation and remediation, is it possible in a mixed educational program? with Dr. Mary-Lynn Watson via MS Teams
• June 14, 2022, 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Medical Education Research Roundtables | Writing for Publication (Part 2) Setbacks, Struggles, and Next Steps via MS Teams

• Sessions will be posted as confirmed.