Implicit Bias Workshop

March 4, 2025 

4:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST

This highly interactive virtual session, led by Kenna Kelly-Turner and Dr. Shannon Ruzycki from University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine, invites participants to learn more about what implicit bias is, explore the data around the impacts of implicit bias in academic medicine and health sciences, and select strategies for mitigating implicit bias.

By the end of this session, you'll be able to:

• recognize types of implicit bias,

• reflect on our own implicit biases, and

• identify strategies to mitigate implicit biases.

Presenters:

Kenna Kelly-Turner is Manager, Faculty Development at the Cumming School of Medicine and also serves as the lead for the Health Professions Education Leadership stream of the Precision Health graduate program. She holds a master’s from the University of Toronto and is currently a doctoral candidate in Education, focused on addressing harm in postsecondary environments. She develops and facilitates educational programming on a wide variety of topics with particular interests in social justice, adult learning, health professions education, transdisciplinarity, career development and processes/practices in higher education.

Dr. Shannon Ruzyck is a general internist and assistant professor at the Cumming School of Medicine. She has a MPH from Johns Hopkins University and is the Research Director for the Cumming School of Medicine's Health Equity and Systems Transformation portfolio. She uses quality improvement and implementation science to understand and improve EDIA in the healthcare workforce.

Clinical Faculty Development Champions Program

Want to learn valuable skills and towards leadership and scholarship in medical education at TMU? This program will provide a hands-on opportunity to create a clinical faculty development curriculum, work alongside TMU colleagues and receive feedback along the way. It will take place over 20 weeks from October 2024 to February 2025.

Commitment: 1 hour synchronous meetings (Zoom) every 2 weeks with 3 hours of asynchronous work between meetings, for a total of 40 hrs of commitment (approx. 2 hrs/wk over 20 weeks)

Benefits: This pilot program is  accredited and currently free for the first cohort. (Similar programs typically cost $2000). Hours can also be used towards your TMU SoM hours. This program will provide you with a chance to network with colleagues and become a leader in faculty development for TMU SoM.

Outcomes: By the end of this program, you will create a 5 min video as well as present a workshop or webinar to TMU colleagues on a faculty development topic. (Both are a requirement of completion).

Principles of Effective Feedback Workshop

We are partnering with TMU Faculty Affairs and the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) to provide Principles of Effective Feedback workshop. 

Date: February 10, 2025

Time: 12:00 PM EST – 1:00 PM EST

Description

This workshop offers an opportunity to think more about the challenges and rewards of interacting with your students. Join us to learn methods for checking in with students on their learning and for gathering feedback on your teaching approaches. You will also walk away with strategies for reflecting on and responding to student feedback. This workshop focuses on effectively responding to student work in ways that aim to improve critical thinking and other skill development. Participants will assess how various responses can differ in terms of their impact on students and learn ways to provide meaningful responses while still balancing issues of timeliness and workload.

Canadian Leadership Institute for Medical Education (CLIME) 2.0, November 18 to 20, 2024

The Canadian Association for Medical Education (CAME) proudly announces the third offering of our exclusive leadership education course, the Canadian Leadership Institute for Medical Education (CLIME) 2.0. This highly sought-after course will be delivered in English in Toronto, Ontario, from November 18 to 20, 2024 and is limited to a group of 40 participants.

CAME created the CLIME course in 2008 to develop leaders in health sciences education. The course is designed for leaders engaged in initiatives to promote excellece, innovation, change, and scholarship in the health sciences. Participants include those in or about to transition to leadership positions and ready to implement new skills in the workplace. Teaching and learning methods include interactive lectures, individual assignments, self-reflection, small-group sessions, teamwork, liberating structures, and networking opportunities. More than half of the curriculum is devoted to active learning strategies. Case examples used during the program are directly applicable to health sciences education, ensuring that the skills learned are immediately transferable to the workplace.

The original CLIME course (i.e., CLIME 1.0) responds to contemporary health science education contexts. In 2021, we developed CLIME 2.0, which focuses on professional development needs identified by our past CLIME participants and national health sciences leaders, including:

• Walking the walk: Antiracism and social justice for leaders in health sciences education

• ‘Clean power' for leadership

• Coaching in health sciences leadership

• Developing coalitions

• Decision making

• Managing disruptive behaviour

• Embedding joy in leadership

More information on the course and other leadership education offerings can be found on the CAME website.

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and the Orange Shirt Day, September 30, 2024

The Clinical Faculty Development unit would like to take a moment to reflect on the importance of the National day of Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day. We encourage all faculty in their own reflection to visit some of the resources we have linked below. 

In addition, please read the statement from the Office of Indigenous Resurgence by Dr. Jamaica Cass, Indigenous Health Lead, Special Advisor to the Dean, Indigenous Resurgence, School of Medicine.

"As we approach the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on September 30th, it is crucial that we, as healthcare professionals and educators, reflect deeply on the historical and ongoing impacts of colonization on Indigenous peoples in Canada. This day serves as a solemn reminder of the intergenerational trauma inflicted by the residential school system and other colonial practices, which have significantly contributed to health disparities and inequities faced by Indigenous communities today.

The recent apology from the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) for its role in the harms inflicted upon Indigenous peoples marks a significant step towards acknowledging the medical profession's complicity in colonial practices. This apology recognizes the systemic racism and discrimination that have long existed within healthcare institutions and the profound negative effects these have had on Indigenous health outcomes.

As we build our new medical school on the crucial  principles of equity, diversity, inclusion, decolonization, reconciliation, accessibility and anti-racism, we must ensure that this apology translates into meaningful action. It is our responsibility to incorporate Indigenous knowledge and healing practices into our curriculum, actively work to increase Indigenous representation in healthcare, and foster culturally safe work and healthcare environments.

The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation offers us an opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to these goals and to honour the survivors, their families, and communities. It is a time for education, reflection, and action as we strive to address the ongoing health inequities and work towards genuine reconciliation in healthcare and medical education.

Let us use this day to renew our dedication to building a healthcare system that respects, values, and incorporates Indigenous perspectives, ultimately leading to better health outcomes for all Indigenous peoples in Canada."

Resources

• Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action

• Indigenous TMU

• Ozaawaa Babigoyaan Giizhigad / Orange Shirt Day events

• TMU’s path towards Truth and Reconciliation

• Standing Strong Task Force

CAME Unlearning Series Webinar 

TMU SoM is partnering with Canadian Association of Medical Education (CAME) to provide the "Unlearning Series" Webinar on Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Accessibility issues in Medical Education.

Teaching Patient Safety Fundamentals: A workshop for medical educators

Mon. Sept 16th, 4-6 PM, Virtual workshop (Zoom)

New to teaching, or curious about medico-legal risk in your teaching? This workshop, given by the CMPA, will cover these topics and more including: teaching trainees about medico-legal risk, documentation, delegation of care, and disclosing adverse events.

To learn more about this workshop, visit:

https://www.cmpa-acpm.ca/en/education-events/workshops/teaching-patient-safety-fundamentals 

Accreditation Credits:

This 1-credit-per-hour Group Learning program has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 2.25 Mainpro+ credits.

This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by the CMPA. You may claim a maximum of 2.25 hours (credits are automatically calculated).

Academic Writing Drop-in Sessions

Join Our SoM Drop-in Writing Sessions!

Finding time to write and think is one of the hardest parts of being a clinical faculty member or staff! We are excited to invite you to our SoM Drop-in Writing Sessions, a collaborative, supportive, and informal space to engage in writing projects. You may know this as "writing accountability groups" or other names - but we're trying to keep it light and enjoyable, so just drop in and try it out! 

Whether you are working on research papers, grants, or abstract for a conference, these sessions offer an opportunity to write in the company of colleagues, share ideas, and receive feedback. It’s also a perfect opportunity to meet colleagues from different departments and clinical affiliates! 

Each of the sessions will:

• Briefly discuss one challenging part of writing (e.g. how to write an abstract in Session 1) and some tips for success for about 10-15 min, and then 

• We will put you into small break out rooms where you will declare to your peers what you're working on – and then just spend some dedicated time writing! 

These sessions are offered at different days and times to fit into your busy schedule. Please use the links below to register.

Details of the Sessions

1. Pro-tips for writing an abstract – just in time for ICAM abstracts!
   Wednesday, August 14, 2-4 pm, 

2. How to write a great introduction: the Problem-Gap-Hook heuristic
   Tuesday, August 20th, 2-3 pm, 

3. Writer's block & some tips on how to combat it
   Wednesday, Sept 4th, 1-2pm, 

4. Team Writing – Pearls and Pitfalls
   Friday, Sept 13, 9-10 am,

5. Abstracts, Papers, and Preprints… Oh My! Selecting an outlet for your work
   Monday, Sept 16, 3-4 pm, 

6. Peer Review and how to survive it
   Wednesday, Sept 25, 5-6pm, 

We hope to see you there and look forward to making our time together a successful endeavour for everyone involved!