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Re-imagining Education – Post MD Education Annual Report
![Vice Dean Salvatore Spadafora and Associate Deans Glen Bandiera and Suzan Schneeweiss](https://annualreport.postmd.ca/2019/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2019/09/HH_CPD_001_v1_MR-300x200.jpg)
Post MD Education’s 2018-2019 Annual Report highlights activities of the past year that are preparing our learners in Postgraduate Medical Education (PGME) and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to practice medicine in the second half of this century. Having a vision of what that might include requires not only imagination, but wisdom and a situational awareness of where we are headed in terms of care and our system of care.
E-Learning
E-Learning modules provide flexible learning options
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Technology enhanced learning (TEL) is flexible, engaging and can involve busy clinicians across multiple sites. CPD has been involved in the development of synchronous, asynchronous and blended programs including the Relations with Industry module and the Opioid Clinical Primer Program while PGME has been developing the current iteration of PGCorEd, a series of self-directed multimedia web-based learning modules covering foundational topics based on the CanMEDS 2015 Physician Competency Framework.
Faculty Development
Building Faculty Capacity across Post MD
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Post MD had been engaged in Faculty Development (FD) at the postgraduate and continuing professional development levels. At PGME, efforts to develop collaborative, innovative and simplified approaches to FD are being used to help implement competency based education (CBE) across residency programs. CPD has been working with FMEC-CPD to develop key recommendations for addressing the knowledge and skills needed for CPD providers and developers and continues to offer specialized training.
Wellness
Wellness across the continuum: Expanding our reach
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PGME is taking active steps to develop a health and well-being community of practice. The Postgraduate Wellness Office was renamed to reflect its new mandate to serve both residents and clinical fellows at the University of Toronto. This will help to expand wellness throughout the continuum. PGME is also working closely with the MD Program to develop key approaches and principles to guide the support of and response to learners.
Partnerships
Increasing our national and international footprint
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Partnerships over the past year have helped Post MD to increase its national and international footprint. CPD’s Safer Opioid Program is being offered across Canada in partnership with Saegis and PGME partnered with the MD Program and the School of Graduate Studies as part of a delegation that visited partners and potential partners in the Middle East.
Scholarship
Scholarship and Research across Post MD
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Post MD Education had much to celebrate in research, scholarship, teaching, and innovation. Over the past year, CPD scholarship and research included 49 papers, 48 presentations and 13 grants. Scholarship and research for PGME included 21 workshops/presentations, 7 posters and 27 research awards.
Continuing Professional Development: Leadership
Celebrating Excellence in CPD
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The Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education (SACME) promotes the highest value in patient care and health of the public through the scholarship of continuing medical and interprofessional education. At the annual conference, faculty and staff connected to CPD led presentations and workshops on scholarship in CPD, evaluating programs and streamlining processes. A number of faculty received award for excellence in research and scholarship.
Continuing Professional Development: Community
Strengthening our Understanding of Refugee and Indigenous Issues
![Bob Rae Speaking to the Indigenous Health Conference in 2019](https://annualreport.postmd.ca/2019/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2019/10/Bob-Rae-300x188.jpg)
The North American Refugee Health conference marked its 10th anniversary this year. Over the years, the conference has grown to become one of the largest global refugee health conferences attracting close to 700 participants. This conference runs every other year and alternates with the Indigenous Health Conference (IHC). IHC received support from Indigenous Services Canada and Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs to build a Content Library earlier this year.
Continuing Professional Development: Innovation
Supporting faculty in CPD Program Development
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The requests for educational consulting have doubled since 2014. Recognizing the impact that this service has had in streamlining the accreditation process and supporting the quality of programs, CPD now offers educational consulting for all new program directors and conference chairs. Additional resources for assessing learning needs and for Scientific Planning Committees have also been developed.
Post Graduate Medical Education: Leadership
Bolstering the Leadership Toolkit of Postgraduate Medical Trainees
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PGME has launched a PG Leadership Certificate Program. The certificate is an immersive longitudinal program designed to equip select postgraduate trainees with the knowledge and skills needed to contribute to local and systems level improvements in the delivery of health care. In the current complex health care environment, these skills are required to optimize healthcare delivery for individual patients and society as a whole.
Post Graduate Medical Education: Community
Residency Programs: Standard and Selection Improvements
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PGME program directors, program administrators and education leads have been working to familiarize themselves with the new General Standards of Accreditation for Residency Programs. These standards have helped programs to identify areas for change and improvement. In addition to this, recommendations from a recent report, Best Practices in Application and Selection, will also be implemented across all residency program selection committees.
Post Graduate Medical Education: Innovation
Elentra facilitates adoption of CBME
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Elentra, a user-friendly and efficient IT system, has been implemented to facilitate the adoption of CBME across residency programs. The platform was originally created by a consortium of North American medical schools and designed to support Royal College residency programs in their transition to Competence by Design (CBD). PGME has worked to improve the platform to support its 23 residency programs.
The PostMD Organization
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- Executive
- Faculty
- Management
- Caroline Abrahams
Director, Policy, Analysis and Systems - Glen Bandiera
Associate Dean, PGME - Anna Banerji
CPD Conference Chair, Indigenous & Refugee Health - Trevor Cuddy
Director, CPD - Heather Flett
Associate Director, Resident Wellness - Colin Fleming
Senior Financial Officer - Susan Glover Takahashi
Director, Education & Research - Melissa Hynes
Lead, Learner Education Support - Renice Jones
Associate Director, Marketing & Business Development - Judy Kopelow
Manager, Global Health Initiatives - Alison Lind
Associate Director - Julie Maggi
Director, Resident Wellness - Anne Matlow
Faculty Lead, Strategic Initiatives - Maureen Morris
Associate Director, Operations - Loreta Muharuma
Director, Operations - Laura Leigh Murgaski
Program Manager, Accreditation & Education Quality Systems - Gerard Nagalingam
Business Manager - Barry Pakes
Academic Lead, Global Health - Allan Peterkin
Faculty Lead, Humanities - Linda Probyn
Director, Admissions and Evaluation, PGME - Paula Rowland
Scientist (Post MD Education & The Wilson Centre) - Suzan Schneeweiss
Associate Dean, CPD - Salvatore Spadafora
Vice Dean, Post MD Education - Shannon Spencer
International Relationship Manager - Walter Tavares
Scientist (Post MD Education & The Wilson Centre)
CE Directors & Leaders
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Centre for Faculty Development
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Department of AnesthesiaVincent Chan
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Department of Family and Community MedicineJeremy Rezmovitz
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Department of Lab Medicine and PathologyAnna Plotkin
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Department of Medical ImagingKartik S Jhaveri
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Department of MedicineBrian Wong
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Department of Occupational Science and Occupational TherapyDebbie Hebert
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Department of OpthalmologyAlan Slomovic
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Department of PaediatricsMark Feldman
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Department of PsychiatryRaj Rasasingham
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Department of Radiation OncologyEwa Szumacher
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Department of Speech and Language PathologyPascal van Lieshout
Centre for Faculty Development
New Activities/Continuing Activities
We continue to offer both single workshops on a variety of topics as well as longitudinal programs that include: Stepping Stones Certificate, Education Scholars Program (ESP), New and Evolving Academic Leaders Program (NEAL) , Teaching and Learning for Collaboration (TLC) and a Narrative Medicine program that in its 2nd year, in partnership with the Post MD program. We also offer Best Practices in Education Rounds (BPER) and delivered 7 rounds last year that were video teleconferenced to over 10 sites across the GTA as well as webcast and archived on our website. We also introduced another 2 online supplements (OS) which are online learning modules that align with keys areas of work and support the Summer Education Institute (SEI).
We continue to support 3 communities of practice: one for faculty development leaders/leads and the other one for those involved in Mentoring programs, and one for leaders in CBME
Department Innovations
We are working to revamp our Massive Open Online Course on Health Professions Teaching and have engaged a number of colleagues to review and revise the content of this online course. The goal is the relaunch it later this year.
Partnerships and Collaborations
We partner with a number of local and international colleagues in our various programs.
We have service agreements with Markham Stouffville and Trillium Health Partners to offer the TLC program at their sites, as mentioned above we partner with Post MD and the Narrative Medicine program to offer the Narrative Medicine program. We also have collaborations with the MD and Post MD programs to offer FD programming that supports the roll out of CBME at U of T and to build capacity for FD in CBME. The SEI program is run collaboratively with colleagues from CACE at Women’s College Hospital.
We also entered into a contact with a new medical school in Egypt to offer a faculty development course for their educational leaders who are overseeing their new curriculum to build capacity for the teachers and educators in their program to implement this new medical training program.
Future Directions
The abovementioned program will be delivered in December 2019. We have launched a comprehensive evaluation project and am developing an evidence informed evaluation framework for all of our programs which will be implemented starting this year.
Research and Scholarship
CPD Awards Received
Helen P. Batty Awards for Excellence and Achievement in Faculty Development (Sustained Contribution to the Field of Faculty Development), Centre for Faculty Development, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto Jana Lazor 2019
Excellence in Interprofessional CPD Award, Continuing Professional Development Awards, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto Karen Leslie, Latika Nirula, and Project Team 2019
Meridith Marks New Educator Award, Canadian Association for Medical Education (CAME) Stella Ng
2019 CAME Certificate of Merit, Canadian Association for Medical Education (CAME) Susan Glover Takahashi
2018Alumni Achievement Award, Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto Brenda Mori
2018E Champion Award, Early Career Medical Educators (ECME) Group Stella Ng
CPD Related Grants
- Onyura B. (2018). A Feasibility Evaluation and Knowledge Mobilization Study for Leadership Development in Medical Postgraduate Education. Art of the Possible Grant DFCM University of Toronto, $5,000 CAD.
- Zafar R, Tazkarji B, Hameed S, Onyura B. (2018). Enhancing Diabetes Management in Primary Care: An Innovation and Evaluation of a Training Intervention for Family Medicine Residents. Art of the Possible Grant DCFM University of Toronto, $5,000 CAD.
- Ng S. (2018-2023). Improving Health Professions Education and Practice for Patients with Complex Needs. Early Researcher Award (ERA). Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation, and Science, $150,000 CAD.
- Ng S, Albert A, Baker L, Charise A, Wright S, Woods N. (Mar 2018 - Mar 2019). Fixing the Broken Links: Toward Integrating Social Sciences and Humanities and Health Professions Education. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Connection Grant, $7,000 + $3,000 CAD matched.
- Kuper A, Alexander T, Bryden P, Kulasegaram K, Kumagai A, Maniate J, Ng S, Richardson L, Rojas D, Rowland P, Sukhera J, Tavares W, Whitehead CR, Whyte R, Wilkes-Whitehall D, Wright S, Ying Y. (Jul 2018- Jun 2020). Assessment and Evaluation of Medical Education for Compassionate, Person-Centered Care. Associated Medical Services (AMS), Phoenix Call to Caring Grants, $40,000 CAD.
- Baker L, Friesen F, Ng S. (Mar 2019 – Sep 2020). Online Supplement (OS) for Demonstrating the Impact of Scholarship in Health Professions education. Department of Psychiatry Excellence Funds CPA. Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto, $4,244.34 CAD.
- Cheung E, Onyura B, McKnight A, Landes M. A Program Evaluation of the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration in Emergency Medicine (TAAAC-EM). University of Toronto, Education Development Fund (EDF), $10,000 CAD.
- Simpson A, Ng S, Delany C. (Aug 2019 – Aug 2020). The Use of Ethnographic Videos as a Tool for Critical Reflection in Audiology Education. Ida Institute Research Grant, $9,952 USD
CPD Publications
- Ng SL, Crukley J, Kangasjarvi E, Poost-Foroosh L, Aiken S, Phelan SK. Clinician, student and faculty perspectives on the audiology-industry interface: implications for ethics education. International Journal of Audiology. 2019 Mar [accepted, forthcoming].
- Ng S, Wright S, Kuper A. The divergence and convergence of critical reflection and reflexivity. Academic Medicine. 2019 Mar [epub ahead of print].
- MacKinnon K, Ng S, Grace D, Sicchi S, LE R. Protocols as curriculum? Learning health advocacy skills by working with transgender patients in the context of gender-affirming medicine. Advances in Health Sciences Education. 2019 May [epub ahead of print].
- Friesen F, Baker L, Ziegler C, Dionne A, Ng S. Approaching impact meaningfully in medical education research. Academic Medicine. 2019 Mar [epub ahead of print].
- DeBoer S, Dockx J, Lam C, Shah S, Young G, Quesnel M, Ng S, Mori B. Building successful and sustainable academic health science partnerships: Exploring perspectives of hospital leaders. Canadian Medical Education Journal. 2019;10(1):e56.
- Baker L, Wright S, Mylopoulos M, Kulasegaram M, Ng S. Aligning and applying the paradigms and practices of education. Academic Medicine 2019 Mar [epub ahead of print].
- DeBoer S, Dockx J, Lam C, Shah S, Young G, Quesnel M, Ng S, Mori B. Building successful and sustainable academic health science partnerships: Exploring perspectives of hospital leaders. Canadian Medical Education Journal. 2019;10(1):e56.
- Yeldon J, Wilson R, Laferrière J, Arseneau G, Gu S, Hall M, Norman KE, Yoshida K, Mori B. Let’s talk about the talk: Exploring the experience of discussing student performance at the mid-and final points of the clinical internship. Physiotherapy Canada. 2018;70(3):240-8.
- Tassone M, Jegathesan T, Han R, Atkinson A, Let’s talk about the talk Young E. Gaps in Developmental Pediatrics training: A Canadian resident physician perspective. MedEdPublish. 2018;7(2):68.
- Nousiainen MT, Mironova P, Hynes M, Glover Takahashi S, Reznick R, Kraemer W, Alman B, Ferguson P. Eight-year outcomes of a competency-based residency training program in orthopedic surgery. Medical Teacher. 2018;40(10):1042-54.
- Nayer M, Glover Takahashi S, Hrynchak P. Twelve tips for developing key-feature questions (KFQ) for effective assessment of clinical reasoning. Medical Teacher. 2018;40(11):1116-22.
- 12) Miller D, Kwan D, Ng S, Friesen F, Lowe M, Maniate J, Matmari L, Nirula L, Richardson D. Initiating communities of practice for teaching and education scholarship in hospital settings: a multi-site case study. MedEdPublish. 2018;7(2):58.
- Lazor J, Glover Takahashi S, Leslie K. Who's connected to whom and how: a model of evolving relationships and roles in faculty development and curriculum development during curriculum renewal and innovation. MedEdPublish. 2018;7.
- Kulasegaram K, Mylopoulos M, Tonin P, Bernstein S, Bryden P, Law M, Lazor J, Pittini R, Sockalingam S, Tait GR, Houston P. The alignment imperative in curriculum renewal. Medical Teacher. 2018;40(5):443-8.
- Jones-Bonofiglio KD, Willett T, Ng S. An evaluation of flipped e-learning experiences. Medical Teacher. 2018;40(9):953-61.
- Baker LR, Martimianakis MA, Nasirzadeh Y, Northup E, Gold K, Friesen F, Bhatia A, Ng SL. Compassionate care in the age of evidence-based practice: A critical discourse analysis in the context of chronic pain care. Academic Medicine. 2018;93(12):1841-9.
CPD Posters and Presentations
Lazor J, Innes L, Bell J. (2018 Aug). Tailored faculty development to support undergraduate medical curriculum renewal: An aligned approach. Oral presentation at Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE), Basel, Switzerland.
Glover Takahashi S, Dube R. (2018 Aug). Lessons Learned: A Multi Methods Systems Approach to Improving the Culture and Practice of Feedback. Presentation at AMEE + CBME Symposium, Basel, Switzerland.
Lieff S, Barned C, Onyura B. (2018 Aug 28). Does academic leadership development make a difference? The evaluative case of a contemporary program. Oral presentation at Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE), Basel, Switzerland.
MacKinnon K, Ng S, Ross LE. (2018 Aug 28). An institutional ethnography into how clinicians learn transgender health advocacy and systems-based practice. Oral presentation at Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE), Basel, Switzerland.
Arnstead N, Campisi P, Glover Takashashi S, Hong C, Mok F, Noel C, Siu J, Wong B, Monteiro E. (2018 Oct). Feedback Frequenxy in Competency by Design: A Quality Improvement Initiative. Presentation at International Conference on Residency Education (ICRE), Halifax, NS.
Glover Takahashi S, Dube R. (2018 Oct). Lessons Learned: A Multi Methods Systems Approach to Improving the Culture and Practice of Feedback. Poster presentation at the International Conference on Residency Education (ICRE), Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Glover Takahashi S, Sanaee L. (2018 Oct). Curriculum Planning for Transition to Practice. Workshop at International Conference on Residency Education (ICRE), Halifaz, Nova Scotia.
Ng S, Galster J, Leonard M, Phelan S. (2018 Oct 19). Clinician and Patient Perspectives on Smartphone-Integrated Hearing Aids. Oral presentation at the Canadian Academy of Audiology (CAA) Conference, Niagara Falls, ON.
Ng S, Crukley J, Aiken S, Poost-Foroosh L, Phelan S, Kangasjarvi E. (2018 Oct 19). Seeing Shades of Grey: A Grounded Theory Study of Audiology’s Relationship with Industry. Oral presentation at the Canadian Academy of Audiology (CAA) Conference, Niagara Falls, ON.
Ng S, Baker L. (2018 Nov 30). Critical Reflection: A Practical Approach. Oral presentation at the 7th Annual Sunnybrook Education Conference: Revolutionizing Healthcare’s Future Friday, Toronto, ON.
Antao V, Lazor J, ... Sampson G. (2018 Nov). Realignment of an established faculty development program for new teachers: a systematic approach. Poster presentation at Family Medicine Forum, Toronto.
Simpson J, Kangasjarvi E, Karim A, Ng S. (2019 Mar 7). The Power of Teaching and Brest Cancer Survivorship. Poster presentation at the 36th Annual Breast Cancer Conference, Miami Beach, FL. Forthcoming Peer-Reviewed Presentations, (Apr 1, 2019 onwards)
Ng S, Kangasjarvi E, Lorello G, Nemoy L, Brydges R. (2019 Apr 5). A Qualitative Study of Epistemologies in a Stimulation-Based Medical Education Context. Oral presentation at American Educational Research Association (AERA). Toronto, ON.
Nimmons L, Baker L, Watling C. (2019 Apr). Quality in Qualitative Research. Workshop presentation at Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME), Niagara Falls, ON.
Antao V, Leslie K. (2019 Apr 14). Understanding the Role of Faculty Teachers and Educators in CBME: Coaching and Competency. Workshop at Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME), Niagara Falls, ON.
Antao V, Lazor J, ... Sampson G. (2019 Apr 14). Realignment of an established faculty development program for new teachers: a systematic approach. Poster presentation at Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME), Niagara Falls, ON.
Baker L, Boyd V, Kangasjarvi E, McNeil B, Ng S. (2019 Apr 14). Identity, Trust, and Care: Moving through discomfort towards meaningful care for transgender patients. Oral presentation at Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME), Niagara Falls, ON.
Balbaa A, Berditchevskaia I, Bowden S, Freeman S, Kirubarajan A, Klostermann N, Naguib M, Lazor J. (2019 Apr 14). A framework for incorporating discussion of social identities into case-based learning. Poster presentation at Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME), Niagara Falls, ON.
Berditchevskaia I, Balbaa A, Bowden S, Freeman S, Kirubarajan A, Klostermann N, Naguib M, Lazor J. (2019 Apr 14). What’s in a name: an analysis of ethnic origins of patient and provider names in case-based learning. Oral presentation at Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME), Niagara Falls, ON.
Freeman R, Penciner R, Antao V, Bordman R, Ellis R, Forte M, Ghavam-Rassoul A, Kulasegaram K, Nutik M, NyhofYoung J, Onyura B, Whitehead C, Wright S, Woods N. (2019 Apr 14). The Art of the Possible: What have we learned about creating an Education Scholarship Grant Program. Oral presentation at Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME), Niagara Falls, ON.
Glover Takahashi S, Dube R. (2019 Apr 14). Lessons Learned: A Multi Methods Systems Approach to Improving the Culture and Practice of Feedback. Poster presentation at Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME), Niagara Falls, ON.
Lazor J, Innes L, Bell J. (2019 Apr 14). Faculty development to support curriculum renewal: an aligned approach. Oral presentation at Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME), Niagara Falls, ON. 3.1 Detailed List of CFD Related Publications, Grants, Awards & Presentations 17
McClennan, S., & Lazor, J. (2019 Apr 14). Edu-cafes - an opportunity for faculty development? Poster presentation at Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME), Niagara Falls, ON.
Nimmon L, Baker L, Watling C. (2019 Apr 14). The challenges of high-quality qualitative research. Workshop at Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME), Niagara Falls, ON.
Nyhof-Young J, Onyura B, Bordman R, Ellis R, Nutik M, Woods N, Wright R, Freeman R. (2019 Apr 14). Better Together: A New Model for Supporting Education Scholarship. Poster presentation at Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME), Niagara Falls, ON.
Onyura B, Lazor J, Jugnundan S, Barned C, Boyd V. (2019 Apr 14). A Theory-based Curriculum, a Medical Student, and a CBL Tutor Walk into a Bar . . . : Evaluating Curriculum Enactment, Adaptation, and Resistance during Reform. Oral presentation at Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME), Niagara Falls, ON.
Premji L, Tzanetos K, Lazor J. (2019 Apr 14). How to “AACE-IT:” Coaching students in difficulty - lessons learned from the achieving academic and clinical excellence in training program at the University of Toronto. Workshop at Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME), Niagara Falls, ON.
Sockalingam S, Chaudhary Z, Barnett R, Lazor J, Mylopoulos M. (2019 Apr 14). Developing a framework of integrated competencies for adaptive expertise in integrated physical and mental health care. Poster presentation at Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME), Niagara Falls, ON.
Glover Takahashi S, Nayer M. (2019 Apr 15). Epidemiology of competence: the theory and practice of risks and supports to competence. Oral presentation at Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME), Niagara Falls, ON.
Onyura B, Freeman R, Crann S, Whittaker M, Murdoch S, Tannenbaum D. (2019 Apr 15). Strengths and paradoxes in medical leadership education: Can postgraduate programs meet contemporary demands for health systems leadership? Oral presentation at Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME), Niagara Falls, ON.
Friesen F, Baker L, Camp M, Szego M, Ng S. (2019 Apr 16). Exploring the Ethics of Authorship in Academic Medicine. Oral presentation at the Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME). Niagara Falls, ON.
Ng S, Lorello G, Nemoy L, Brydges R, Kangasjarvi E. (2019 Apr 16). A qualitative study of epistemologies in a simulation-based medical education context. Oral presentation at Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME), Niagara Falls, ON.
Rowland P, Boyd V, Goldman J, Lising D, Ng S, Whitehead C. (2019 Apr 16). Continuing professional development and organizational logics: Participating in the governing of health care professionals in workplaces. Oral presentation at the Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME), Niagara Falls, ON.
Bernard C, Knifed E, Abner E, Fournier C, Freeman R, Incardona N, Kulasegaram M, Wagner F, Onyura B, Williams C. (2019 Apr 30). From classroom to clinic: a novel integrated curriculum to teach ethical decision making to Family Medicine Residents. Oral presentation at the 52nd annual Society of Teachers in Family Medicine (STFM) Conference, Toronto, ON.
Freeman R, Penciner R, Antao V, Bordman R, Ellis R, Forte M, Ghavam-Rassoul A, Kulasegaram K, Nutik M, NyhofYoung J, Onyura B, Whitehead C, Wright S, Woods N. (2019 Apr 30). The Art of the Possible: What have we learned about creating an education scholarship grant program? Oral presentation at the 52nd annual Society of Teachers in Family Medicine (STFM) Conference, Toronto, ON.
Kulasegaram M, Freeman R, Onyura B, Whitehead C, Woods N. (2019 Apr 30). Applying education science to family medicine: Stories from the trenches. A panel presentation at the 52nd annual Society of Teachers in Family Medicine (STFM) Conference, Toronto, ON.
Onyura B, Freeman R, Crann S, Whittaker M, Murdoch S, Tannenbaum D. (2019 Apr 30). Strengths and paradoxes in medical leadership education: Can postgraduate programs meet contemporary leadership and clinical demands across health systems? Oral presentation at the 52nd annual Society of Teachers in Family Medicine (STFM) Conference, Toronto, ON.
Nyhof-Young J, Onyura B, Bordman R, Ellis R, Forte M, Kulasegaram M, Nutik M, Woods N, Wright R, Freeman R. (2019 Apr 27 – May 1). Better Together: A New Model for Supporting Education Scholarship. Poster presentation at the 52nd Annual Society of Teachers in Family Medicine (STFM) Conference, Toronto, ON.
Onyura B. (2019 May). Beyond Barriers and Facilitators Bridging Strengths and Paradoxes in Program Development Using a SCOPES Approach for Formative Evaluation. Oral presentation at the 40th Annual Canadian Evaluation Society (CES) Conference, Halifax, NS.
Phelan S, Reeves P, Harris M, Ng S. (2019 May 8). The exclusionary effects of inclusion today: Constructions of disability in inclusive education settings. Oral presentation at the Nordic Network on Disability Research (NNDR), Copenhagen, Denmark.
Spiegle G, Yin P, Ng, S, Shah R, O’Brien T, Friesen F, Friesen M, Wright S. (2019 May 29). Scoping Review of Ambulatory Care Education in Internal Medicine. Oral presentation at the Canadian Association of Ambulatory Care
Department of Anesthesia
Vincent Chan
Faculty Development Program
2018 Faculty Development Day
This event was held on Monday, November 12, 2018 jointly with Departments of
Surgery and Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery and attended by approximately
180 faculty members. The theme of the day was Patient Safety, Quality Improvement
and Risk Prevention and Dr. Gerald Hickson, Sr. Vice President for Quality, Safety and
Risk Prevention, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, delivered the keynote address on
“The Key to Safety: Intentionally Designed Systems and Accountable Professionals.
The day also included a variety of interactive workshops covering topics related to
education, leadership, wellness, patient safety, equality and diversity, quality
improvement and professionalism.
2019 Senior Promotions Workshop Creative Professional Activity (CPA)
This event was held on Tuesday February 5, 2019 from 5:30 - 7:00 PM for faculty
members who are interested in seeking promotion to the rank of Associate or Full
Professor by way of CPA. This interactive session was moderated by Dr. Frances
Chung and Drs. Annette Vegas and Vincent Chan addressed how to build a CPA
dossier and provide practical tips and pointers to demonstrate impact.
2019 Grant Writing Workshop
This workshop was held on February 20, 2019 from 5:30 - 7:00 pm for faculty to learn
and enhance their grant writing skills. This session was moderated by Dr. Beverley
Orser and Dr. Hannah Wunsch provided an overall view on effective grant writing and
provide guidance and critique on grants that are in progress. Drs. Brian Cuthbertson
and Keyvan Karkouti were also present during the open discussions
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Jeremy Rezmovitz
In 2018-2019, the Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM) continues to develop and deliver a high volume of quality CPD events.
The Faculty Development program continues to develop strategies and activities to support DFCM faculty with career development as well as wellness and resiliency. We continue to encourage faculty to engage in our Basics series (Basics for New Faculty, Beyond Basics, Scholarship Basics and Leadership Basics) as well as our advanced professional development offerings. The DFCM Mentorship program offers opportunities for teacher mentees to find a Mentor to foster resilience and wellbeing at whatever stage they are in terms of personal and professional growth. Our DFCM Annual Conference, celebrating 50 years of Family Medicine offers numerous annual opportunities for dissemination of scholarly work as well as sessions on wellness and resiliency practices such as Balint Groups, Mindfulness and Yoga.
The Office of Education Scholarship (OES) continues to offer consultation services to departmental faculty members who are engaging in education scholarship. The team consists of scientists and clinician educators who work in partnership to support faculty members at any stage of their project, from idea to dissemination. Through our Education Program, we continue to host celebrations of education scholarship with a focus this year on generalism, dissemination and program evaluation. The ‘Art of the Possible’ grant program was established to support education scholarship in our department. Over the past year, our consultation service has been supporting projects now in the fourth cycle of grants.
In addition, we offered many peer support writing groups, journal clubs, grand rounds, and regional, national and international events. We also offered PriMed Canada, a primary care inter-professional CPD conference. Last year’s conference had over 3200 delegates and offered 25 hours of continuing education.
We are very proud of our global health and social accountability program. We offer programs for local learners and faculty with our refugee health primer and our global health, equity and primary care course. For our international learners and faculty, we hosted the Toronto International Program -TIP-China- in order to enhance leadership capacity in family medicine and primary care for Chinese general practitioners. We offered TIP FM, in order to enhance leadership capacity in family medicine and primary care by building on lessons learned in the Canadian and global context.
We’ve also strengthened our partnerships and collaborations both locally and globally. Locally, the DFCM Faculty Development Program partnered with the Department of Psychiatry, and Department of Nutrition (The Joanna and Brian Lawson Center for Child Health Nutrition); and in the Undergraduate Medical Education Program, partnered with the John Bradly Clinical Research Program (JBCRP). Globally, we continue to have a strong partnership with Addis Ababa University and continue to support the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration in Family Medicine (TAAAC-FM) and became a WHO collaborating centre on Family Medicine and Primary care.
We are very excited about some recent innovations in the Quality Improvement (QI) Program with the redesign of the Post Graduate Medical Education QI curriculum, which will also serve as the platform for Faculty Development and CPD/QI education moving into 2020. This will align with the learning management platform ‘Learn Dash’ to host e-learning modules. From a scholarship standpoint, the faculty development program will expand the Mentorship, Leadership, and Wellness initiatives, working to integrate supports for Health Professional Educators across all programs.
We will continue to collaborate to create high quality CPD scholarship and are looking forward to creating new and exciting ways to work and learn together. For full background and further information, please visit: http://www.dfcm.utoronto.ca/.
RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP
CPD Related Grants
2018 The education development fund: A study exploring a decade of people, projects and systems. Office of the Education Vice Deans, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.Freeman R (PI), Farrugia M, Paton M, Fechtig L, Kulasegaram M. $19,226 CAD
CPD Posters and Presentations
Presentations
2018 Nov Mentorship: The Hidden Essential Through-out your Teaching Trajectory. Family Medicine Forum Toronto ON Canada. Antao V, Walsh A, Bethune C, Koppula S, Miron P, Broderick V, Vanier MC, Snell L.
2019 Apr The art of the possible: What have we learned about creating and education scholarship grant program? CCME Canadian Conference of Medical Education. Toronto ON Canada. Presenter: Freeman R. Freeman R, Penciner R, Bordman R, Ellis R, Forte M, Ghavam-Rassoul A, Kulasegaram K, Nutik M, Nyhof-Young J, Onyura B, Whitehead C, Wright S, Woods N, Antao V.
2019 Jan Realignment of an Established Faculty Development Program for New Teachers: A systematic approach. Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference. Singapore. Presenter: Voila Antao. Antao V, Lazor J, Faculty Development Committee, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto. Family Medicine Forum, Toronto Ontario.
2019 Apr Understanding the role of faculty teachers and educators in CBME: Coaching and competency. CCME Canadian Conference of Medical Education. Toronto ON Canada. Antao V, Leslie K.
Posters
2018 Aug Determining Best Practices and Barriers to Teaching Ethics in Medicine: A Scoping Review. Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) Conference. Basel, Switzerland. Bernard C, Knifed E, Incardona N, Kulasegaram M, Fournier C, Freeman R.
2018 Nov Realignment of an Established Faculty Development Program for New Teachers: A systematic approach. Antao V, Lazor J, Faculty Development Committee, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto. Family Medicine Forum, Toronto Ontario.
2019 Feb Evaluating Predictors of Successful Funding to an Education Development Grant: The Role of the Person and the Project. Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education Annual Meeting (SACME). Charleston, SC, USA. Paton M, Kulasegaram K, Cartmill C, Chow CM, Farrugia M, Fechtig L, Khan T, Freeman R.
2019 Apr Better Together: Paired expert consultations with a family medicine clinician and education scientist promote educational scholarship among widely distributed and diverse family medicine clinical faculty. Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) Annual Spring Conference. Toronto, ON, Canada. Nyhof-Young J, Onyura B, Bordman R, Ellis R, Forte M, Kulasegaram M, Nutik M, Woods N, Wright S, Freeman R.
2019 Apr Assessing competencies, comfort and challenges of faculty within the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Toronto: A key step in developing an ethics curriculum for family medicine residents. Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) Annual Spring Conference. Toronto, ON, Canada. Knifed E, Bernard C, Rozmovits L, Incardona N,Freeman R.
2019 Apr Rezmovitz J,Wooster E, Maniate J, MacPhee I. ARLO: The role of feedback in the CPDenvironment.Canadian Conference on Medical Education.Niagra Falls,Ontario, Canada
2019 Apr Evaluating predictors of successful funding to an education development grant: the role of the person and the project. Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) Annual Spring Conference. Toronto, ON, Canada. Kulasegaram M, Cartmill C, Farrugia M, Fechtig L, Khan T, Paton M, Freeman R.
2019 Apr Realignment of an Established Faculty Development Program for New Teachers: A Systematic Approach. STFM Conference. Toronto ON Canada. Antao V, Lazor J, Bordman R, Colledge E, Crispino N, Gabor R, Goldstein S, Branigan M, Homer M, Ivanovic M, Jain R, Kates M, Lemieux C, Kopansky-Giles D, Markovski M, Roberts M, Schram C, Stoller R, Weisdorf T, Zimcik H, Penciner R, Sampson G
2019 Apr Realignment of an established faculty development program for new teachers: a systematic approach. CCME Canadian Conference of Medical Education. Toronto ON Canada. Antao V, Lazor J, Bordman R, Colledge E, Crispino N, Gabor R, Goldstein S, Branigan M, Homer M, Ivanovic M, Jain R, Kates M, Lemieux C, Kopansky-Giles D, Markovski M, Roberts M, Schram C, Stoller R, Weisdorf T, Zimcik H, Penciner R, Sampson G.
Department of Lab Medicine and Pathology
Anna Plotkin
New Activities/Continuing Activities
CPD office successfully runs communities of interest meetings. Pathologists from GTA meet to discuss their cases in a friendly atmosphere. The meetings are facilitated by the specialist from an academic centre. The attendees present cases with didactic summaries. The meetings allow community pathologists to safely evaluate their approach to diagnostic oncology and learn about new developments.
Department Innovations.
CPD office started an innovation. We created “highlights in the literature” where faculty publish review of most relevant literature in subspecialty pathology for general pathologists. This enables many pathologists to quickly scan the literature and read the most important papers. Both contributors and readers have an opportunity to enhance their knowledge and review new developments with their colleagues.
Partnerships and Collaborations
CPD office partners with different divisions on educational projects.
Future Directions
We would like to add more communities of interest and develop new events for our faculty.
CPD Awards Received
All contributors to CPD events including “highlights of the literature” will receive a thank you letter from the department.
CPD Posters and Presentations
Dr. Richardson made a valuable presentation at the community of interests about evaluation of margins in breast conserving surgery. Most people were unaware of the surgical approach. Wide implementation of this approach can help to improve sectioning of the breast specimens and therefore improve reporting.
Department of Medical Imaging
Kartik S Jhaveri
Conferences, Lectures, Rounds and Symposia
- Mechanical Spine Imaging Symposium - August 24, 2018, Ben Sadowski Auditorium, 18th Fl, MSH
- Advanced Imaging Education Centre (AIEC) – Cardiac CT - September 10-14, 2018, TGH
- 5th Annual St. Michael’s Hospital MRI Symposium - September 15, 2018, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute
- Diagnostic Imaging Grand Rounds - “Introductory AI for Radiologists and its Application to
- Bone Age Predictions”, September 19, 2018, Hospital for Sick Children
- Advanced Imaging Education Centre (AIEC) - Virtual Colonography - September 24-26 2018, TGH
- 19th Annual Interventional Neuroradiology Symposium & 4rd Annual Karel G. TerBrugge Lectureship. September 27-30, 2018, Peter Giligan Centre for Research and Learning
- The 11th Annual Marvin Steinhardt Lecture in Thoracic Imaging - October 11, 2018, MSH
- Derek Harwood-Nash Research Day - October 12, 2018, The Hospital for Sick Children
- Advanced Imaging Education Centre (AIEC) – Breast Tomosynthesis 2018 - October 12-14, 2018, TGH
- 33rd Annual Organ Imaging Review - October 19-21, 2018, Marriott Downtown at CF Toronto Eaton Centre
- Advanced Imaging Education Centre (AIEC) – Cardiac CT - October 22-26, 2018’ TGH
- Advanced Imaging Education Centre (AIEC) – Virtual Colonography - November 5-7, 2018, TGH
- The Canadian Neuroradiology Course – Part 1: Anatomy, Malformations – Tumors - November 9-11, 2018, BMO Education & Conference Center, TWH
- Advanced Imaging Education Centre (AIEC) – Radiology Residents Introduction to Advanced Computed Tomography - December 3-5, 2018, TGH
- Neuroradiology MRI Physics Symposium - February 1, 2019, Hospital for Sick Children
- 9th Annual Medical Imaging Alumni & Education Day - February 2, 2019, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute
- Advanced Imaging Education Centre (AIEC) – Virtual Colonography - February 11-13, 2019, TGH
- Advanced Imaging Education Centre (AIEC) – Cardiac CT - February 25 – March 1, 2019, TGH
- Advanced Imaging Education Centre (AIEC) – Cardiac CT - April 1-5, 2019, TGH
- Toronto Breast Imaging Conference - April 27, 2019, Women’s College Hospital Conference Centre
- Advanced Imaging Education Centre (AIEC) – Virtual Colonography - April 29 – May 1, 2019, TGH
- Advanced Imaging Education Centre (AIEC) – Cardiac CT - June 3-7, 2019, TGH
Visiting Professors
- Dr. Christopher Hess
- Dr. Bachir Taouli
- Dr. Karen Rosendahl
- Dr. Prem Patel
- Dr. George Koshy Chiramel
- Dr. Kishore Minhas
- Dr. Utaroh Motosugi
- Dr. Aparna Annam
- Dr. Karen Lyons
- Dr. Ramon Sanchez-Jacob
- Dr. Laura W. Bancroft
- Dr. Suresh K. Mukherji
- Dr. Michael C. Soulen
- Dr. Jane Matsumoto
- Dr. Sherwin Chan
Department Innovations
Leadership and Diversity in Medicine: Challenges & Opportunities - October 30, 2018
Location: Hospital for Sick Children
Affiliation: University of Toronto, Department of Medical Imaging
BPER (Best Practice in Education Rounds) - October 2, 2018
Location: Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute
Affiliation: Centre for Faculty Development, SMH
Partnerships and Collaborations
22nd Annual Obstetric Ultrasound - February 22-24, 2019
Departments of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Medical Imaging, U of T
MSK Imaging Course: Whistler - March 16-19, 2019
Department of Radiology, UBC and Department of Medical Imaging, U of T
Cardiothoracic Imaging in Montreal - October 12-13, 2018
Department of Radiology, University of Ottawa
4th International Workshop on Diagnostic and Interventional Prostate MRI - April 11-12, 2019
Paris Descartes University, France
OAR Affiliated Courses
OAR Breast Ultrasound CME 2018 - September 8, 2018
Abdominal and Pelvic Oncology Imaging/CME Event - September 22, 2018
OAR 10th Annual Breast Imaging Symposium 2018 - October 27, 2018
Vascular & Interventional Radiology update: Practical Information for Community Radiologists - May 25, 2019
Canadian Bone Mineral Densitometry Physician Workstation CME 2019 - June 8-9, 2019
Future Directions
Toronto Emergency Radiology Symposium – June 12-13, 2020
Toronto Head and Neck Imaging Symposium – March 28, 2020
RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP
CPD Awards Received
- AIRP (American Institute of Radiologic Pathology) – Best Case Award – October-November 2018- Dr. Adam Dmytriw (PGY4)
- ISMRM (International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine/European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine &Biology) – “Outstanding Teacher Award in the Body Category” – Paris, France – Dr. Masoom Haider
- RSNA (Radiological Society of North America) International Visiting Professor (International Education Program) – 2019 – Dr. Mini Pakkal
CPD Related Grants
- Innovation Grant - Joule Innovation Grant - $5,000. July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019 (Co-recipients - Drs. Alex Bilbily and Mark Cicero)
- RSNA Education Scholar Grant, “North American Assessment of Early Emergency Radiology Competence Via an Online Simulator with GY2 Diagnostic Residents”. July 1, 2018-June 30, 2019. $62,856. (Principal Investigator: Dr. Eric Bartlett)
CPD Publications
Boutis K, Pecaric M, Carrière B, Stimec J, Willan A, Chan J, Pusic M. The effect of testing and feedback on the forgetting curves for radiograph interpretation skills. Med Teach. 2019 May 2:1-9. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2019.1570098. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31046500
Diamond IR, Probyn L, Colak E, Finlay K, Bartlett ES. Assessing Competence in Emergency Radiology Using an Online Simulator. Acad Radiol. 2019 May;26(5):676-685. doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2018.07.007. Epub 2018 Aug 10. PMID: 30100154
Gupta S, Rajiah P, Middlebrooks EH, Baruah D, Carter BW, Burton KR, Chatterjee AR, Miller MM. Systematic Review of the Literature: Best Practices. Acad Radiol. 2018 Nov;25(11):1481-1490. doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2018.04.025. Epub 2018 Jul 31. PMID: 30442379
Seely JM, Appavoo S, Wadden N, Loisel Y, Scaranelo A. Choosing Wisely Canada and Diagnostic Imaging: What Level of Evidence Supports the Recommendations? Can Assoc Radiol J. 2018 Aug;69(3):338-339. doi: 10.1016/j.carj.2018.05.001. PMID: 30071962
CPD Posters and Presentations
2018 June 13. Optimizing after-hours workflow of CT orders from the ED. Resident Achievement/Research Day. Presenter: Rajesh Bhayana
2018 June 13. Diagnostic Accuracy of MRI-Based Sacroilitis Scoring Systems: A Systematic Review. Resident Achievement/Research Day. Presenter: Vimarsha Swami
Department of Medicine
Brian Wong
In addition to the 56 programs led by Department of Medicine (DoM) faculty accredited through the Office of CPD, we provide a brief description of key highlights and achievements:
New Activities/Continuing Activities
City Wide Medical Grand Rounds: These rounds, started in 2005, continue to connect our hospital sites by both videoconference and webcast for nine rounds through each academic year. Host sites rotate ad hoc based on speaker preference and organizational needs.
Co-learning Curriculum in Quality Improvement (CoLearnQI): This innovative model for faculty development brings faculty and residents together in the QI learning process, and has significantly increased the capacity within the DoM to both carry out and teach QI. As of 2019, CoLearnQI has spread to 35 programs across several major departments at the University of Toronto, and trained over 100 full-time faculty members. We also piloted this educational model with dieticians and dietetic interns at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.
Third Annual Summit for Women in Academic Medicine: Under the leadership of Dr. Sharon Straus, Vice-Chair, Mentorship, Equity & Diversity, the DoM organized the third annual Summit for Women in Academic Medicine (WAM), attended by over 150 faculty members across the University of Toronto. This highly impactful initiative provided an opportunity for participants to hear from leaders in medicine, develop leadership skills (e.g. how to say no and when to say yes; leadership skills; conflict management; how to be an ally), and network with other colleagues to increase equity within the DoM.
Third Annual Story Slam: Stories are the most powerful way of understanding ourselves, each other, and our world. They also help to create a sense of community and to remind its members of shared values and experiences. Hosted by Drs. Allan Detsky, Wilson Kwong, Kevin Venus and Jonah Himelfarb, the third annual Story Slam event celebrated storytelling and featured a collection of stories (five minutes maximum) told by individuals around the theme of “Filing Buckets” without notes or props.
Future Directions
The Department of Medicine is currently conducting an environmental scan of all its CPD activities organized through its 20 clinical divisions. The results will be summarized and presented to divisional and departmental leaders with the hopes of developing a set of guidelines and best practices to harmonize the department’s CPD offerings.
RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP
CPD Related Grants
“Simulation as a CPD Strategy: A Scoping Review.” Dr. Dominique Piquette, Department of Medicine. CPD Research and Development Grants Program.
“Best Practices in Medicine: Evaluating the Impact of a Personalized audit and feedback portfolio on health care practitioners resource utilization.” Dr. Rishi Seth, Department of Medicine. Co-applicants: Victor Tron, Ajay Kapur, Donna Arab-O’Brien. CPD Research and Development Grants Program.
CPD Publications
Wong BM, Baum KD, Headrick LA, Holmboe ES, Moss F, Ogrinc G, Shojania KG, Vaux E, Warm EJ, Frank JR. Building the Bridge to Quality: An Urgent Call to Integrate Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Education with Clinical Care. Acad Med. 2019 Aug 6. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002937. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID:31397709.
Zereshkian A, Wong R, Leifer R, Schneeweiss S, Tavares W, Paton M, Soliman H, Di Prospero L, Harnett N, Szumacher E. Continuing Professional Development Needs Amongst University of Toronto's Department of Radiation Oncology Faculty. J Cancer Educ. 2019 Aug 24. doi: 10.1007/s13187-019-01607-1. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31446618.
Lineker SC, Fleet LJ, Bell MJ, Sweezie R, Curran V, Brock G, Badley EM. Getting a Grip on Arthritis Online: Responses of rural/remote primary care providers to a web-based continuing medical education programme. Can J Rural Med.2019 Apr-Jun;24(2):52-60. doi: 10.4103/CJRM.CJRM_10_18. PubMed PMID: 30924461.
Saposnik G, Maurino J, Sempere AP, Terzaghi MA, Amato MP, Montalban X. Does attendance at the ECTRIMS congress impact on therapeutic decisions in multiple sclerosis care? Mult Scler J Exp Transl Clin. 2019 Mar 18;5(1):2055217319835226. doi: 10.1177/2055217319835226. eCollection 2019 Jan-Mar. PubMed PMID: 30911401; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6423673.
Yu CH, Gall Casey C, Ke C, Lebovic G, Straus SE. Process Evaluation of the Diabetes Canada Guidelines Dissemination Strategy Using the Reach Effectiveness Adoption Implementation Maintenance (RE-AIM) Framework. Can J Diabetes. 2019 Jun;43(4):263-270.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.jcjd.2018.08.189. Epub 2018 Aug 10. PubMed PMID: 30415910.
Wiljer D, Tavares W, Mylopoulos M, Campbell C, Charow R, Davis D, Okrainec A, Silver I, Sockalingam S. Data and Lifelong Learning Protocol: Understanding Cultural Barriers and Facilitators to Using Clinical Performance Data to Support Continuing Professional Development. J Contin Educ Health Prof. 2018 Fall;38(4):293-298. doi: 10.1097/CEH.0000000000000223. PubMed PMID: 30346337.
Zezos P, Panisko D. Web-based learning in inflammatory bowel diseases: General truths and current specifics. World J Clin Cases. 2018 Oct 6;6(11):410-417. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v6.i11.410. Review. PubMed PMID: 30294605; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6163148.
Furlan AD, Zhao J, Voth J, Hassan S, Dubin R, Stinson JN, Jaglal S, Fabico R, Smith AJ, Taenzer P, Flannery JF. Evaluation of an innovative tele-education intervention in chronic pain management for primary care clinicians practicing in underserved areas. J Telemed Telecare. 2019 Sep;25(8):484-492. doi: 10.1177/1357633X18782090. Epub 2018 Jul 10. PubMed PMID: 29991316.
CPD Posters and Presentations
AMEE 2018, 25th to 29th August 2018, Basel, Switzerland:
- Paula Rowland, Victoria Boyd, Joanne Goldman, Dean Lising, Stella Ng, Cynthia Whitehead: When learning isn’t just learning: Alignments and tensions between university based and workplace initiated continuous professional development programs. Research paper.
CCME 2019
- Morag Paton, Paula Rowland, Walter Tavares, Suzan Schneeweiss, Shiphra Ginsburg: Charting a path to scholarship in Continuing Professional Development. Oral abstract.
- Brandon Tang, Anand Lakhani, Amir Ginzburg, Dante Morra: Physician Scorecards as a Novel Approach to Performance Feedback and Education: Should Quality be Negotiable? Oral abstract.
- Sanjeev Sockalingam, David Wiljer, Dave Davis, Meredith Giuliani, Allan Okrainec, Ivan Silver, Craig Campbell, Maria Mylopoulos, Walter Tavares, Rebecca Charow: Understanding the relationship between data-informed learning and orientation to lifelong learning. Oral abstract.
- Gary Sibbald, Karen Smith, Laura McDiarmid, James Deacon, Jolene Heil, Cynthia Mangan, Eleftherios Soleas: Wound Care Continuing Professional Development and Bootcamps: Interprofessional before it was cool. Oral abstract.
- Paula Rowland, Victoria Boyd, Joanne Goldman, Dean Lising, Stella Ng, Cynthia Whitehead: Continuing professional development and organizational logics: Participating in the governing of health care professionals in workplaces. Oral abstract.
Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
Debbie Hebert
New Activities/Continuing Activities
This year the focus was on reaching a legal agreement between the The International Cognitive Approaches Network (ICAN) and the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy to release the online CO-OP course. This was successfully completed at the end of August. Primary organizers: Dr. Debra Cameron, OT Reg. (Ont.), Dr. Helene Polatajko, OT Reg. (Ont.), Dr. Sara McEwen, Jane Davis, OT Reg. (Ont.), and Debbie Hebert, OT Reg. (Ont.)
A new course was being developed focussed on the Arts and OT in this time frame. Primary Organizers: Elizabeth Cambridge,OT Reg. (Ont.) and Nazanin Nour, OT Reg. (Ont.)
Department Innovations
No new innovations to report. During the course of the year it was apparent that a review of the focus of CPD in our department needs to occur. This will be planned for the next year.
Partnerships and Collaborations
While the collaborative offering of the CO-OP course was achieved, we learned a great deal about partnership and considerations around striking partnerships with external Academies. This type of learning will be applied to future events. There were many issues that were not apparent that could be shared at a CPD meeting.
Future Directions
This year we will:
- review the vision and mission of CPD in our department.
- offer the Arts and OT course
- evaluate our online course CO-OP
- plan to offer new courses based on the skills of our department.
Department of Opthalmology
Alan Slomovic
Continuing Medical Education at The University of Toronto is robust. All of our main educational events are accredited for Royal College Mainport CME credits. These events include:
- Weekly Grand Rounds (7:30-8:30 Friday am): accredited for 1 hour of CME activity and includes local, national and international visiting professors in all subspecialty areas of ophthalmology. Teaching is comprised of didactic lectures, case presentation and discussion and video presentations
- Annual Walter Wright Symposium. This is our department’s premier educational event, typically occurring the 1st weekend in December and attracts local as well as many out of country ophthalmologists. New this year, the topics for Walter Wright will be on a rotating on an annual schedule: Neuro-ophthalmology/Oculoplastics (2019), Cornea/Refractive Surgery (2020), Retina/Vitreous (2021) and Glaucoma (2022). Last year’s meeting: “Cataract Surgery, Optimizing Outcomes: Co-morbidities, Challenges and Controversies”, co-chaired by Drs. Ike Ahmed and Allan Slomovic. Was a resounding success with 5 Visiting Professors and 18 University of Toronto faculty lecturing. The symposium was accredited for 11.5 Section 1 CME credits with a total attendance of 445.
- Toronto Cataract Course, led by no other than Toronto’s very own Ike Ahmed. Last year’s guest speaker was David Chang from San Francisco CA with total attendance of 387 and accredited for 5.5 (section 1) CME credits
- Toronto Eye Review Course, typically occurring in May and-chaired by Radha Kohly and Ed Margolin. This gem of a course is a TED-style review course for both the specialist and comprehensive ophthalmologist as well as senior residents and fellows. The concept is to have expert ophthalmologists highlight only the relevant clinical information they consider when seeing patients in their everyday practices. These clinical pearls are delivered using a TED-style presentation where stories are infused with practical pearls to make them more meaningful and memorable. Accredited for 7.5 Royal College Mainport credits.
- Jack Crawford Day (April 4, 2019). Guest speakers Daniel Mojon (Jack Crawford named lecturer) and Juan Pablo Lopez (David Smith named lecturer). 6 CME credits (Section1). This years meeting focused on Advances That May Change Your Practice in Paediatric Ophthalmology.
- 61st Annual Ophthalmology Research Day (May 24, 2019) and 38th Clement McCulloch Lecture. Guest speaker Balwantray Chauhan Imaging in Glaucoma: Current Possibilities and Future Expectations. Chair: Matthew Schlenker. Presentations from students, VSRP, residents and fellows. 19 oral and 66 poster presentations. Royal College accreditation Section 1, 6 credits
Department of Paediatrics
Mark Feldman
The overall goals of the Department of Paediatrics’ Continuing Education (CE) are:
- To support and provide high quality continuing education courses and conferences locally, nationally and internationally, utilizing best practice educational strategies and tools;
- Promote and recognize excellence in continuing education;
- Enhance CE programs with the utilization of innovative strategies and new technologies;
- Develop a collaborative network in CE to promote scholarship in CE and best practice in continuing education;
- Collaborate with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada to promote meaningful lifelong learning opportunities and strategies for the Maintenance of Certification;
- Collaborate with Quality Improvement experts to identify and address needed changes in both knowledge and practice;
- Promote quality improvement in continuing education by providing ongoing feedback and evaluation of programs; and
- Research the effectiveness of our CE strategies, publish and disseminate our findings to enhance CE efforts locally, nationally and internationally.
OVERALL CPD HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE YEAR
Our flagship departmental CE event, SickKids’ Paediatric Update May 1-4, 2019 is the largest paediatric CE event led by a department of paediatrics in Canada, with an attendance of 387 registrants over the four days. This year, forty-seven (47) faculty and SickKids staff participated in the delivery of the program along with 9 guest presenters. The Conference also featured a very successful Haematology/Oncology Day chaired by Dr. Angela Punnett, which provided an opportunity to explore emerging trends and issues that relate to haematological/oncological diseases affecting children including a state-of-the-art update to diagnosis, prevention and management of common and emerging problems.
This year, we have expanded our ‘Test-Enhanced Learning’ strategy to increase the number of RCPSC MOC-3 eligible workshops to 21 for PUC 2019 as compared with 20 for 2018, 15 in 2017 and 2016 and 10 in 2015. Testing, in this fashion, can not only provide data but also enhance learning and knowledge retention.
Also this year, we were awarded the Phil Manning Research Award ($41,000) from the Society of Academic Continuing Education to further explore how Test-Enhanced Learning (TEL) affects self-directed learning among paediatricians and to compare the effectiveness of ‘Test-Potentiated Learning’ to TEL. This RCT will take place at the 2020 SickKids Paediatric Update. Quarterly City-Wide Paediatric rounds and Quarterly Community Paediatrics Journal Club, offered by the Division of Paediatric Medicine, continue to be a very popular and well evaluated event attracting hundreds of faithful community-based paediatric attendees from around the GTA and beyond.
This year also marks the fifth iteration of the SickKids Teaching Scholars Program. The STSP is a ‘teach the teachers’ interprofessional ‘in-house’ course intended to develop junior faculty and fellows and interprofessional staff into scholarly teachers. The full complement of 26 learners have continued to provide glowing evaluations of the course and its teachers. For 2019/20 we have the largest number of paediatric fellows enrolled to date.
Other divisions have been very active in providing high quality Continuing Professional Development and some highlights include:
Haematology/Oncology
SickKids Annual Paediatric Update Conference Subspecialty Day
May 1, 2019
Cancer Research Day
January 23, 2019
Annual Childhood Cancer Therapy Update
February 6, 2019
Neonatology
T4 Health – Triage, Transport, Treatment and Transition Conference
October 29, 2018
Paul Swyer Lectureship
(held in conjunction with the T4 Health Conference)
October 29, 2018
Annual Neonatal Research Day
April 24, 2019
Barry Smith Lectureship
April 24, 2019 (held in conjunction with the Neonatal Research Day)
Canadian Neonatal Transport Network (CNTN) Annual Meetings
November 28, 2018 and, March 26, 2019
SickKids – Trillium Health Partners Strategic Partnership: Respiratory Education Workshops
November 26 & 29, 2018
December 4 & 7, 2018
Neurology
Pediatric Stroke Symposium
April 4, 2018
endMS Summer School
June 2018
Nephrology
Hemodialysis Simulation Workshop (Dialysis Emergencies)
May 8, 2018
Feedback and Evaluations in Competence by Design, Dr. Damien Noone
May 22, 2019.
Emergency Medicine
Paediatric Emergency Procedural Sedation Course
September 24, 2019
Advanced Paediatric Life Support Course (APLS)
April 8-9, 2019
Advanced Paediatric Emergency Procedures and Resuscitation Program
May & November 2019
Genetics and Genome Biology
SickKids Rare Disease Day 2019
February 28, 2019
Bringing Therapies to Rare Disease
June 26, 2019
2019 Can-GARD/CCMG/CIHR National Grand Rounds – The Leading Strand Series
(once a month between January-June)
Workshop on Consenting Families for Genetic Tests
May 29, 2018
Genomic Medicine for Plastic Surgeons
June 6, 2018
Workshop on Genomic Medicine for the Centre for Computational Medicine
August 16, 2018
Genomic Medicine for Immunologists
June 27, 2018
Genomic Medicine for Dermatologists
November 1, 2018
Genetic Medicine Rounds
Monthly on Fridays
Immunology and Allergy
Weekly Divisional & Allergy Rounds
September-June
- RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP
CPD Awards Received
- CPD Award for Course Coordination 2018/19 – Dr. Kathy Boutis
CPD Related Grants
- 2019 Phil Manning Research Award, Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education, $41,000. Mark Feldman, MD, FRCPC (PI), Oshan Fernando, PhD, Maria Athina Martimianakis, MA, MEd, PhD, and Kulamakan Kulasegaram, PhD.
- RCPSC 2018 Assessment Activity Development Grant - $10,000.00 for Canadian Paediatric Society’s Position Statement MCQ Self-Assessment Project (Project Lead M. Feldman)
CPD Publications
Testing Test-Enhanced Continuing Medical Education: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Mark Feldman, MD, FRCPC (PI), Oshan Fernando, PhD, Michelle Wan, MA, Maria Athina Martimianakis, MA, MEd, PhD, and Kulamakan Kulasegaram, PhD. Academic Medicine. 2018/11. Volume 93. PP s30-36
CPD Posters and Presentations
Research in Medical Education (RIME) Platform presentation, AAMC annual meeting, Austin Texas, Nov 6th, 2018. Testing Test-Enhanced Continuing Medical Education: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Mark Feldman, MD, FRCPC (PI), Oshan Fernando, PhD, Michelle Wan, MA, Maria Athina Martimianakis, MA, MEd, PhD, and Kulamakan Kulasegaram, PhD.
Department of Psychiatry
Raj Rasasingham
New Activities/Continuing Activities – We continuing our flagship conferences as we have done in previous years. The Psychopharmacology Conference was sold out conference that was well received by both our academic and community partners. Our annual psychotherapy conference featured international speakers from Oxford, Harvard and Cornell and it was sold out as well. We had online audience as well from around the globe.
Department Innovations- Last year we started the psychiatry review course, the first of its kind in the department of psychiatry. It was well attended and has representation from across Canada. We have also had new technology in our programming as well such as turning point and online broadcasting of our programmes.
Partnerships and Collaborations- The department and CPPD Committee has representation in both community and academic sites. Our CPPD Conference focuses on Quality Improvement and was well attended by our community partners. It was also a sold our conference this year.
Future Directions- Our focus in the future is going to be on innovation (new technologies) and online production of CPPD programmes, mentorship and scholarship. We are in the process of hiring an educator to compliment the CPPD portfolio in the department. This will lead to great academic output and mentorship of its faculty.
Department of Radiation Oncology
Ewa Szumacher
New Activities/Continuing Activities
Clinical and Experimental Radiobiology Course 8-12, 2019
Evening Journal Club 2 x yearly the last session was entitled:
- Evening Journal Club - The Academic Appointments and Promotion Journey
- Learners in Difficulty: A Practical Approach.
Fellows Journal Club September 2017 – May 2019
Radiation Medicine Program Rounds (Thursday AM weekly) Sep 2018-Jun 2019
Radiation Medicine Summer Series ongoing
RTi3 conference May 31-June 1, 2019: RTi3 is Canada's premier annual meeting for the Radiation Therapy community. RTi3 is committed to advancing the science and practice of Radiation Therapy, showcasing the latest research and clinical innovations
Canadian Association for Radiation Oncology (CARO) Annual Meeting 2019 October 2-5, 2019
Technical Innovation in Prostate Cancer Radiotherapy (2 day course)
June 21-22, 2018
Collaboration with Sunnybrook Education Advisory Committee on 8th Annual Sunnybrook Education Conference: Educating a resilient workplace:
“Where is the path forward?”
Collaboration with American Association for Cancer Education and planning Annual International Cancer Education Conference entitled “Revolutionizing Cancer Education Globally through technology across generations”
Salt Lake City Utah on September 18-20, 2019
Toronto-Zimbabwe Research Mentorship Program: ongoing
Toronto–Eldoret Radiation Medicine Seminar Series: ongoing
The Young Leaders in Cancer Program ongoing
Radiation Treatment Incident Management and Learning using the National System for Incident Reporting – Radiation Treatment (NSIR-RT, 7 week online course)
GU Conversations: Annual Dinner with GU community in Toronto (Urologists, Radiation Oncologists) Dr. Danny Vesprini, June 20, 2019
Partnerships and Collaborations
American Society for Radiation Oncology ASTRO
American Association for Cancer Education AACE
European Association for Cancer Education EACE
International Medical Association of Europe AMEE
Society for Academic Medical Education SACME
Canadian Association of Radiation Oncologists CARO
Future Directions
Essential Course in Cancer Education
First of the new annual series of mini courses related to cancer education.
First session will be related to “Leadership in cancer education and leading and influencing change in cancer education” Cracow, Poland 31 March 2020.
Target Insight 2 Conference Big Data in Radiation Medicine
June 11 -12, 2020 Toronto
RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP
CPD Awards Received
CPD programs reviewer diploma Ewa Szumacher 2019
Ewa Szumacher become Fellow of International Association for Medical Education (AMEE) July 2019
Ewa Szumacher start Presidency of American Association for Cancer Education in September 2019
CPD Related Grants
Proposal Title: To Investigate Barriers to Cancer Patient Engagement in the Continuing Professional Development Programs within the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto: A Qualitative Study
Total Amount of Funding Requested: $6356.00
Source: Sunnybrook Research Grant
CPD Publications
Continuing professional development needs among UTDRO – qualitative study. Arman Zereshkian BScPhm, Rebecca Wong MD MSc, Rachel Leifer BSc, Susan Schneeweiss MD FRCPC, Walter Tavares BSc PhD, Morag Paton MEd, Hany Soliman MD FRCPC, Lisa Di Prospero MSc MRT(T), Nicole Harnett MEd MRT(T),Ewa Szumacher MD MEd FRCPC
Submitted: Journal of Cancer Education
CPD Posters and Presentations
Development and Evaluation of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Program about Technological Innovations in Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy
E.Szumacher , C.Catton, N.Harnett, G.Morton, T.Craig, M. Davidson, J.Helou, N.Lalani, B.Macute,G.Maharaj, M.McGuffin, A.Wasney, V.Kong, W. Li M.Wong,
R. Wong
Presented: Annual CME meeting, February 26-March 1, 2019 Charleston, South Carolina, US.
Department of Speech and Language Pathology
Pascal van Lieshout
New Activities/Continuing Activities
Dr. Rosemary Martino (Professor; core faculty) led the following activity:
Activity: TOR-BSST© Training for the SLP Dysphagia Expert
Description: This activity is a live 4-hour web-based training session for Speech Language Pathologists who will implement the Toronto Bedside Swallowing Screening Test (TOR-BSST©) within their facilities. The training session is offered several times per year, with ongoing support provided via a secure website and e-mail communication.
SLPs Trained between August 2018 – July 2019 = 24
Dr. Stella Ng (Assistant Professor, Status) reported the following activities:
As of the 2018 academic year, Stella Ng is both Faculty and Director of Qualitative Ateliers at The Wilson Centre. Multiple Ateliers are offered every year and are an excellent opportunity for participants to hone research skills in dynamic and interactive programs led by some of the world’s most respected health professions education researchers. The Wilson Centre Ateliers are attended by an international group of faculty and trainees from all health professions. Taught “Qualitative Research: An Introduction,” The Wilson Centre Atelier Series, October 22-25 2018.
- Summer Education Institute: Teaching for Transformation. Centre for Faculty Development, St. Michael’s Hospital and Centre for Ambulatory Care Education, Women’s College Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.
- An annual three-day faculty development program co-hosted by the CFD and CACE, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. This three-day intensive program aims to foster critical reflexivity in the health professions and offers teaching and assessment approaches to address the social and relational aspects of care.
- Developed, Facilitated, and Taught all sessions for “Summer Education Institute: Teaching for Transformation,” June 12-14, 2018.
- Developed, Facilitated, and Taught all sessions for “Summer Education Institute: Teaching for Transformation,” June 11-13, 2019.
Ms. Jana Leggett (Adjunct Lecturer; Status)
Ms. Leggett taught a U of T accredited course on Literacy in 2018-19 for speech-language pathologists working in schoolboard settings. This course is organized by the department in collaboration with the Ontario Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists association
Department Innovations
- Speech-Language Pathology Clinical Placement Workshops
These workshops focus on preparing clinical educators for student placements. Four workshops are given each year prior to each of the full-time clinical placements in December, February, April and June. They are given face-to-face or via podcast for participants.
Partnerships and Collaborations
- On October 30 2018, the Ontario Cleft Palate Study Group met for its annual meeting at the SLP department, co-organized with Sick Kids by Dr. Bressmann.
- Paula Klaiman helped to organize a retreat for the Cleft Palate Program at SickKids which was held on Monday May 6, 2019. The retreat focused on program planning and development.
Future Directions
- Continuation of the literacy course by Ms. Jana Leggett and further development of continuing education courses where possible
RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP
CPD Awards Received
Dr. Stella Ng received the following awards:
2019 Meridith Marks New Educator Award, Canadian Association for Medical Education (CAME), awarded at the Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME)
This Award recognizes individuals in the first full time phase of their educational professional career who have made a significant contribution to medical education.
2018 ECME Champion Award, Early Career Medical Educators (ECME) Group, awarded at the Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME)
This Award recognizes an ECME member who gives their time, spirit and energy to the growth, success, and recognition of early career medical educators.
CPD Related Grants
Dr. Stella Ng received the following relevant grants:
2018 Sep - 2023 Sep Principal Investigator. Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation, and Science. Early Researcher Award. $150,000 CAD. [Grants]
Title: Improving health professions education and practice for patients with complex needs.
2018 Jul – 2020 Jun Co-Investigator. Associated Medical Services. AMS Phoenix Call to Caring Grants. PI: Kuper A. Co-Investigators: Alexander T, Bryden P, Kulasegaram K, Kumagai A, Maniate J, Ng S, Richardson L, Rojas D, Rowland P, Sukhera J, Tavares W, Whitehead CR, Whyte R, Wilkes-Whitehall D, Wright S, Ying Y. $40,000 CAD. [Grants]
Title: Assessment and evaluation of medical education for compassionate, person-centred care
2018 Mar - 2019 Mar Principal Investigator. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). SSHRC Connection Grant. Co-Investigators: Albert A, Baker L, Charise A, Wright S, Woods N. $7,000 CAD + $3,000 CAD matched funds. [Grants]
Title: Fixing the broken links: Toward integrating social sciences and humanities and health professions education
CPD Publications
Journal Articles
- Ng SL, Kangasjarvi E, Lorello G, Nemoy L, Brydges R. “There shouldn't be anything wrong with not knowing": Epistemologies in simulation. Medical Education (forthcoming, accepted Jun 2019). Principal Author.
- *Hayman K, Wen M, Khan F, Sharma M, Pinto A, Ng SL. Teaching undergraduate medical students to “go upstream” and advocate on social determinants of health using case-based learning. Canadian Journal of Medical Education (forthcoming, accepted Apr 2019). Senior Responsible Author.
- Ng SL, Crukley J, Kangasjarvi E, Poost-Foroosh L, Aiken S, Phelan SK. Clinician, student and faculty perspectives on the audiology-industry interface: Implications for ethics education. International Journal of Audiology (forthcoming, accepted Mar 2019). Principal Author.
- *MacKinnon K, Ng SL, Grace D, Sicchi SR, Ross LE. Protocols as curriculum? Learning health advocacy skills by working with transgender patients in the context of gender-affirming medicine. Advances in Health Sciences Education (epub ahead of print, May 2019). Co-Senior Responsible Author.
- Ng SL, Wright SR, Kuper, A. The divergence and convergence of critical reflection and reflexivity. Academic Medicine. 2019;94(8):1122-1128). Principal Author.
- Friesen F, Baker LR, Ziegler C, Dionne A, Ng SL. Approaching impact meaningfully in medical education research. Academic Medicine. 2019;94(7):955-961. Senior Responsible Author.
- Baker L, Wright S, Mylopoulos M, Kulasegaram M, Ng S. Aligning and applying the paradigms and practices of education. Academic Medicine. 2019;94(7):1060. Senior Responsible Author.
- Orsino A, Ng SL. Can adaptive expertise, reflective practice, and activity theory help achieve systems-based practice and collective competence? Canadian Medical Education Journal, 2019;10(3):e55-60. Senior Responsible Author.
- DeBoer S, Dockx J, Lam C, Shah S, Young G, Quesnel M, Ng S, Mori B. Building successful and sustainable academic health science partnerships: Exploring perspectives of hospital leaders. Canadian Medical Education Journal, 2019;10(1): e56. Co-Senior Responsible Author.
- Baker LR, Martimianakis MA, *Nasirzadeh Y, *Northup E, Gold K, Friesen F, Bhatia A, Ng SL. Compassionate care in the age of evidence-based practice: A critical discourse analysis in the context of chronic pain care. Academic Medicine, 2018;93(12):1841-9. Senior Responsible Author.
- Miller D, Kwan D, Ng S, Friesen F, Lowe M, Maniate J, Matmari L, Nirula L, Richardson D. Initiating communities of practice for teaching and education scholarship in hospital settings: A multi-site case study. MedEdPublish, 2018;7(2):58. Collaborator.
- Jones-Bonofigilo KD, Willett T, Ng S. An evaluation of flipped e-learning experiences. Medical Teacher, 2018;40(9):953-961. Senior Responsible Author.
- Tassone MC, Jegathesan T, Han R, Atkinson A, Ng S, Young E. Gaps in Developmental Pediatrics training: A Canadian resident physician perspective. MedEdPublish, 2018;7(2):68.
Book Chapters
- Ng SL, Baker L, Cristancho S, Kennedy TJ, Lingard L. Qualitative research in medical education: Methodologies and methods. In Swanwick T, Forrest K, O’Brien BC, eds. Understanding Medical Education: Evidence, Theory and Practice. 3rd ed. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell; 2019:427-42. (Invited chapter). Principal Author.
CPD Posters and Presentations
- INTERNATIONAL
Presented Abstracts
2019 May 8 Senior Responsible Author. The exclusionary effects of inclusion today: Constructions of disability in inclusive education settings. Nordic Network on Disability Research (NNDR). Copenhagen, Denmark. Presenter(s): Phelan S, Reeves P, Harris M, Ng S. (Oral Abstract).
2019 Apr 5 Presenter. A qualitative study of epistemologies in a simulation-based medical education context. American Educational Research Association (AERA). Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Presenter(s): Ng S, Kangasjarvi E, Lorello G, Nemoy L, Brydges R. (Oral Abstract).
2019 Mar 7 Senior Responsible Author. The power of teaching and breast cancer survivorship. 36th Annual Miami Breast Cancer Conference. Miami Beach, Florida, United States. Presenter(s): Simpson J, Kangasjarvi E, Karim A, Ng S. (Poster presentation).
2018 Aug 28 Supervisor and Co-Senior Responsible Author. An institutional ethnography into how clinicians learn transgender health advocacy and systems-based practice. Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) 2018. Basel, Switzerland. Presenter(s): *MacKinnon KR, Ng S, Ross LE. (Oral Abstract).
- NATIONAL
Invited Lectures and Presentations
2019 June 24 Invited Speaker. What’s so critical about critical pedagogy. The Bayfield Meeting for Health Professions Education Research. Bayfield, Ontario, Canada.
2019 May 12-18 Invited Scholar and Speaker for CHES Rounds. Teaching and assessing for critical reflection: A mixed methods study. Centre for Health Education Scholarship (CHES). University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
2019 May 12-18 Invited Scholar and Speaker for CHES Fellows. Rethinking reflection in HPE: A brief history; current state and debate; and recommendations for research and practice on reflection in HPE. Centre for Health Education Scholarship (CHES). University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
2018 Feb 13 Invited Speaker. Teaching for critical reflection: What, why, and how? Canadian Association for Medical Education (CAME) Webinar. (Webinar for national audience).
Presented Abstracts
2019 May 29 Collaborator. Scoping review of ambulatory care education in internal medicine. Canadian Association of Ambulatory Care Conference 2019. Charlottetown, PEI, Canada. Presenter(s): Spiegle G, Yin P, Ng S, Shah R, O’Brien T, Friesen F, Friesen M, Wright S. (Poster presentation).
2018 Oct 19 Presenter. Clinician and patient perspectives on smartphone-integrated hearing aids. Canadian Academy of Audiology (CAA) Conference. Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Presenter(s): Ng S, Galster J, *Leonard M, Phelan S. (Oral Abstract).
2018 Oct 19 Presenter. Seeing shades of grey: A Grounded Theory study of audiology's relationship with industry. Canadian Academy of Audiology (CAA) Conference. Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Presenter(s): Ng S, Crukley J, Aiken S, Poost-Foroosh L, Phelan S, Kangasjarvi E. (Oral Abstract).
Presented and Published Abstracts
2019 Apr 16 Presenter. A qualitative study of epistemologies in a simulation-based medical education context. The Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME). Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Presenter(s): Ng S, Lorello G, Nemoy L, Brydges R, Kangasjarvi E. (Oral Abstract).
Publication details:
Ng S, Lorello G, Nemoy L, Brydges R, Kangasjarvi E. A qualitative study of epistemologies in a simulation-based medical education context. Medical Education. 2019;53(s1): forthcoming. Principal Author.
2019 Apr 16 Senior Responsible Author. Exploring the ethics of authorship in academic medicine. The Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME). Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Presenter(s): Friesen F, Baker L, Camp M, Szego M, Ng S. (Oral Abstract).
Publication details:
Friesen F, Baker L, Camp M, Szego M, Ng S. Contribution Exploring the ethics of authorship in academic medicine. Medical Education. 2019;53(s1): forthcoming. Senior Responsible Author.
2019 Apr 16 Collaborator. Continuing professional development and organizational logics: Participating in the governing of health care professionals in workplaces. The Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME). Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Presenter(s): Rowland P, Boyd V, Goldman J, Lising D, Ng S, Whitehead C. (Oral Abstract).
Publication details:
Rowland P, Boyd V, Goldman J, Lising D, Ng S, Whitehead C. Continuing professional development and organizational logics: Participating in the governing of health care professionals in workplaces. Medical Education. 2019;53(s1): forthcoming. Collaborator.
2019 Apr 14 Senior Responsible Author. Identity, trust, and care: Moving through discomfort towards meaningful care for transgender patients. The Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME). Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Presenter(s): Baker L, Boyd V, Kangasjarvi E, McNeil B, Ng S. (Oral Abstract).
Publication details:
Baker L, Boyd V, Kangasjarvi E, McNeil B, Ng S. Identity, trust, and care: Moving through discomfort towards meaningful care for transgender patients. Medical Education. 2019;53(s1): forthcoming. Senior Responsible Author.
2018 Apr 30 Presenter. Toward critical reflexivity for competent social practice. The Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME). Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Presenter(s): Ng S, Kangasjarvi E, Phelan S. (Oral Abstract).
Publication details:
Kangasjarvi E, Baker L, Houston P, McNeil B, Ng S. Advancing systems of care for disadvantaged patients: Developing an education strategy. Medical Education. 2018;52(s1):80. Senior Responsible Author.
2018 Apr 28 Senior Responsible Author. Advancing systems of care for disadvantaged patients: Developing an education strategy. The Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME). Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Presenter(s): Kangasjarvi E, Baker L, Houston P, McNeil B, Ng S. (Oral Abstract).
Publication details:
Kangasjarvi E, Baker L, Houston P, McNeil B, Ng S. Advancing systems of care for disadvantaged patients: Developing an education strategy. Medical Education. 2018;52(s1):36. Senior Responsible Author.
2018 Apr 29 Supervisor and Senior Responsible Author. Transcending the DSM: Studying how clinical texts shape the assessment processes for transition-related medicine. The Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME). Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Presenter(s): *MacKinnon KR, Ross L, Ng S. (Trainee presentation). (Oral Abstract).
Publication details:
*MacKinnon KR, Ross L, Ng S. Transcending the DSM: Studying how clinical texts shape the assessment processes for transition-related medicine. Medical Education. 2018;52(s1):31. Senior Responsible Author.
- PROVINCIAL/ REGIONAL
Presented Abstracts
2018 May 31 Supervisor and Co-Senior Responsible Author. Health advocacy as systems change, or system workarounds? Studying how clinicians learn to work with trans patients. Brian Hodges Symposium. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Presenter(s): *MacKinnon KR, Ng S, Ross LE. (Oral Abstract).
- LOCAL
Invited Lectures and Presentations (since 2013 only)
2019 Mar 25 Invited Speaker. Teaching for critical reflection. Women’s College Hospital Practical Ambulatory Care Teaching Tips (PACTT). Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Co-Presenter: Kumagai A.
2018 Nov Invited Speaker. Beyond reflection: Engaging (critically) reflective practice for uncertain and value-conflicted practice. Markham Stouffville Hospital - Interprofessional Celebratory Week. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2018 June 5 Invited Speaker. Fostering critical reflection. Annual Curriculum Retreat, Centre for Interprofessional Education. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2018 Mar 9 Invited Panelist. Faculty Roundtable on teaching critical reflection. Centre for Community Partnerships, University of Toronto. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Presented Abstracts
2018 Nov 30 Presenter. Critical reflection: A practical approach. 7th Annual Sunnybrook Education Conference: Revolutionizing Healthcare’s Future Friday. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Presenter(s): Ng S, Baker L. (Oral Abstract).