BPER Reads 2025-2026
Please join us for BPER Reads, our annual "Battle of the Papers"! We began this November with 5 scholars championing one paper of the past academic year they feel every health professional educator must read. We now have our top two papers! Join us for the discussion!
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Description
We began this November with 5 scholars in our community championing one paper of the past academic year they feel every health professional educator must read. Over the past 2 months, we invited you to read each paper, and the rationale and vote for your favourite. Voting is now closed & we have our top two papers!
On February 10th, join Sacha Agrawal and Lynne Sinclair as they each champion the paper they selected and why they feel it deserves to be read first.
To see the champions and why they chose their selected papers, please click here.
Please register for BPER Reads to get access to the full papers.
Rounds Details
Best Practices in Education Rounds (BPER) are co-hosted by the Centre for Faculty Development, The Wilson Centre and the Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education.
Accreditation Details
Each BPER has been accredited for up to:
- 1 College of Family Physicians of Canada – Mainpro+®️ Certified Activity credit
- 1 Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada – Section 1 hours
Review complete accreditation details.
For more information about BPER, please click here.
Speakers
Our Finalists & the Papers
Sacha Agrawal is championing:
Rosenbaum L. Being Well while Doing Well – Distinguishing Necessary from Unnecessary Discomfort in Training. N Engl J Med. 2024 Feb 8;390(6):568-572. doi: 10.1056/NEJMms2308228. Epub 2024 Jan 17. PMID: 38231543. Click here for details.
Sacha Agrawal MD MSc FRCPC is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, staff psychiatrist and education scholar at CAMH, and advisor (for inclusion and co-production) at CACHE. He frequently teaches psychiatry residents and medical students, and he serves as faculty member of the Collaborative Change Leadership program at UHN and coach with the Education Scholars Program at CFD. Sacha completed medical school at the University of Toronto, his psychiatry residency and Master’s degree in health research methodology at McMaster, and a fellowship in public psychiatry at Yale. He has developed and researched a number of initiatives related to the involvement of patients (service users) in health professions education. His academic interests include pedagogies of social justice and adaptive expertise. Sacha enjoys taking walks in the woods, cooking (and eating!) plant-based foods, and making music with his kids.
Lynne Sinclair is championing:
Webster CS, Coomber T, Liu S, Allen K, Jowsey T. Interprofessional Learning in Multidisciplinary Healthcare Teams Is Associated With Reduced Patient Mortality: A Quantitative Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. J Patient Saf. 2024 Jan;20(1):57–65. doi: 10.1097/PTS.0000000000001170. Click here for details.
Lynne Sinclair is a Physiotherapist and the Senior Consultant: Partnerships & Innovation at the Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education (CACHE), University of Toronto (UT). She holds an Assistant Professor appointment with the Department of Physical Therapy, Temerty Faculty of Medicine at UT. Lynne was one of the founding leaders that helped create the Centre for IPE in 2009 and one of the original faculty developers of the ehpic™(Educating Health Professionals in Interprofessional Care) program in 2005. Lynne has been honoured with multiple awards for teaching and health care education excellence and from 2017-2024 she was appointed an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia. She also served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative (CIHC) from 2018-2024. Lynne is passionate about supporting leaders and teams at the interface between practice and education. She has wide expertise and publications in quality improvement, patient safety, intersectoral communication, and team-based practice. Outside of work, Lynne can be found at her cottage with her large extended family and friends, including three granddaughters, plus her energetic dog Kayla.
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Start date: Feb 10Duration: 1 hourLocation: OnlineCost:Offers:
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