Archived Sessions

The Faculty Development Program hosts the Clinical Teacher Series throughout the academic year. To view recordings of the previous 2023/2024 academic year's sessions, see the library below. 

Attending live sessions awards Mainpro+ credits. To view and register for upcoming Clinical Teacher Series sessions, visit Education Sessions


Introduction to Having a Learner In Your Practice: Undergraduate Preceptor Orientation

 

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30 mins | Facilitator: Lillian Au

  • How to build an effective learning environment.
  • How to create an orientation checklist for your learner
  • Scheduling an efficient clinic day - wave scheduling
  • Learn how to teach to the level of your learner - includes overview of MD Program informing the teaching expectations for LCE, electives, clerkship 

30 mins | Facilitators: David Pickle, Martin Tieu, Ann Lee

  • What’s new for LCE, FM Electives, Clerkship

Managing the Clinical Encounter With Your Learner

 

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Facilitator: Lillian Au

  • Learn how to prepare your learner to see a patient.
  • Review tips on how to directly observe your learner.
  • How do you teach a procedural skill to your learner?
  • How to incorporate clinical reasoning and questioning in optimizing your clinical teaching?

Giving (and Receiving) Feedback

 

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Facilitator: Lillian Au

  • Define feedback and describe the importance of feedback in medical education.
  • Discuss challenges of giving & receiving feedback.
  • Develop strategies for providing effective feedback to your learner.

Facilitators: Ann Lee, Sam Horvey

  • Define formative assessment (eg. field notes), and summative assessment 
  • Reviewing pitfalls and pearls of assessment.
  • Discuss how to complete a meaningful assessment of your learner’s performance.

Learner in Difficulty

 

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Facilitators: Sam Horvey, Joanne Baergen

  • Learn to troubleshoot a difficult learning situation - is it the learner, the environment or the preceptor (or combination of one or more?
  • Discuss strategies on how to best approach difficult situations, include developing a learning plan

Antiracism in the Clinical Setting: Parts 1 & 2

Antiracism in the Clinical Setting Part 1/2

Facilitator: Eniola Salami

  • Define racism, anti-racism, anti-oppression, microaggressions and covert racism.
  • Define positionality and intersectionality and discuss its effect on clinical teaching
  • Summarize the changing landscape of accreditation standards for anti-racism in medical education and the implications for clinical teachers

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Antiracism in the Clinical Setting Part 2/2

Facilitator: Eniola Salami

  • Introduce practical ways clinical teachers can avoid implicit racial bias in patient presentations, diagnostic reasoning, evidence appraisal and management using an interactive case study
  • Introduce tools clinical teachers can use to evaluate learners with regards to their anti-racism teaching/education

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Teaching 2SLGBTQIA+ Care to the Gen Z Learner

 

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Facilitator: Sanja Kostov

  • Communicate more accurately using inclusive language as related to gender and sexuality
  • Explore techniques for creating safe and affirming professional spaces for colleagues, staff, learners and patients
  • Incorporate practical tips for teaching 2SLGBTQIA+ affirming care into clinical practice