Teaching Scholars Program

The IDEAS (Innovation, Discovery, Education, And Scholarship) Office was established in 2017 to help support faculty members with health professions education scholarship of teaching and learning; Dr. Carol Hodgson is the Director. One of the most important activities of the IDEAS Office is the Teaching Scholars Program (TSP) which offers a variety of professional development courses designed to aid the novice or expert educator with a variety of teaching and research skills, including how to enhance scholarly teaching and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Since 2011, over 150 faculty members and/or residents have taken at least one or more of these TSP courses.

For more information about the Teaching Scholars Program, including dates for courses, please email ideasctr@ualberta.ca. More information can also be found at the TSP course registration.

Course Time commitment* Period offered Type of course

TSP-01
Introduction to Medical Education Theory & Practice*

Maximum 15; Minimum 10 Registrants

1 session/week, 2 hrs/ session for 12 weeks.


Total Hours: 26

 Fall or Spring every year Prerequisite for all other courses except TSP-04

TSP-02
Improving Classroom Teaching Skills

Maximum 15; Minimum 10 Registrants

1 session/week, 2 hrs/ session for 12 weeks

Total Hours: 26

 Winter every other year Teaching

TSP-03
Introduction to Assessment

Maximum 15; Minimum 10 Registrants

1 session/week, 2 hrs/ session for 12 weeks

Total Hours: 26

 Spring every other year Teaching

TSP-04
Fostering a Humanistic Approach to Clinical Teaching

Maximum 15; Minimum 8 Registrants

1 session/week, 2 hrs/ session for 11 weeks

Total Hours: 24

 Fall and Spring alternating between Resident/New Staff & Faculty Course Clinical teaching

TSP-05
Introduction to Quantitative Research

OR

TSP-065
Practical Approaches to Cohort Research

Maximum 15; Minimum 3 Registrants

1 session/week,2 hrs/ session for 10 weeks

Total Hours: 22

 Winter every other year, alternating between TSP-05 and TSP-065 Scholarship

TSP-06
Introduction to Qualitative Research

Maximum 15; Minimum 5 Registrants

1 session/week, 2 hrs/ session for 12 weeks

Total Hours: 26

 Fall every other year Scholarship

TSP-07
Turning Your Everyday Work into Products of Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL)

Maximum 15; Minimum 10 Registrants

1 session/week, 2 hrs/ session for 6 weeks

Total Hours: 14

 Spring every other year Scholarship

TSP-08
Program Evaluation as Scholarship

Maximum 15; Minimum 10 Registrants

1 session/week, 2 hrs/ session for 10 weeks

Total Hours: 22

 Spring every other year Scholarship

TSP-010
Writing for Success – Writing to Publish

Maximum 6, Minimum 3 Registrants

1 session/week, 1.5 hrs/ session for 8 weeks

Total Hours: 18

 Fall every other year Scholarship

*An additional 2 hours are added to each course with a project presentation to allow for sufficient time for everyone to present their projects