Continuing Professional Development & Medical Education

Faculty of Medicine

Medical Education Elective for Residents

Clinical Traineeship Program

The Clinical Traineeship Program is designed to give you a crash course in anything you’d like to learn more about. As a participant, you’ll gain new skills by working alongside faculty and other tutors. Your experience may take place in locations across the Maritimes, depending on availability.


Are you interested in pursuing a career in medical education?  Would you like to know more about effective teaching and learning? If so, you may want to consider our four-week elective in medical education. As a participant, you will: 

  • explore and consider your role as a teacher, your personal teaching practices and your learning environment
  • practice a variety of teaching and learning strategies
  • acquire teaching skills that are relevant to your role as a resident and to your future teaching activities

How it works

With the support of faculty and staff members, you’ll benefit from:

  • interactive sessions on a variety of topics
  • small group learning with colleagues
  • self-directed study in areas that interest you
  • a variety of teacher training experiences and practice opportunities

Our upcoming session runs from January 15 – February 11, 2025.  

Registration Deadline: Friday December 20, 2024

Registration Form [PDF 67 kB] - please print, fill in and e-mail to cpdelect@dal.ca.

For more information please contact cpdelect@dal.ca.