Upcoming Events

This workshop engages participants in reflective activities and discussions about desirable and undesirable professional behaviours and the bi-directional relationships that exist between these behaviours, healthcare professional wellness, and the creation of psychologically and culturally safe environments.

Teaching for Transformation is a three day immersion in the education paradigms and practices needed for today's health care work.

Leadership in medicine is often framed in terms of skills and competencies. Yet many of the challenges clinicians face require something deeper: character. This session introduces character-based leadership as a complementary and necessary lens for understanding leadership in health professions education and clinical practice.

If you're beginning to explore or step into leadership roles—formally or informally—this workshop will provide a supportive space to clarify your goals, build on your strengths, and take steps toward growth in your leadership journey.

This Community of Practice for late career physicians is designed to support navigating and decision making by providing opportunities to share stories and personal perspectives. Expert panelists and speakers will also be featured for specific topics.

Join us to engage in an in-depth exploration of the science of adaptive expertise and learn how to integrate mechanisms to support the development of adaptive expertise within your education practice.

Are you new to curriculum design or looking to refresh your knowledge? This interactive session is ideal for those stepping into education roles or exploring curriculum development.

Participants will have an opportunity to explore the instructional design strategy, productive failure, and how it can support the development of adaptive expertise. We will define productive failure, describe how productive failure has been used in health professions education, and illustrate how participants can use productive failure design approaches in their practice.

Take your use of cases to the next level! This workshop will help you design cases and case-based learning to achieve deep engagement and extraordinary learning outcomes.

The Membership Mondays Community is for CFD members to engage in informal conversations on emerging curiosities, questions and tensions within health professions education. This community comes together virtually, three times a year. Topics are responsive to the needs of the community. Please join us to engage in thoughtful dialogue.

Join us for our annual Members Event - free for all CFD Members.

This two-day Course Design Institute (CDI) introduces frameworks and practical strategies to offer more inclusive, accessible, and flexible learning opportunities to your students using the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL).

The rapid advancement of generative AI is poised to fundamentally transform the landscape of health professions education and practice. Join us in this timely and important conversation as we jointly envision the future of health professions education in the age of generative AI.

Utilizing short didactic presentations, group discussions, small group activities as well as case scenarios, this highly interactive workshop will provide an overview of the role, scope, strategies and resources faculty/preceptors/supervisors should consider in order to support learners who witness or experience mistreatment.

Stepping Stones is our foundational program at the CFD, supporting health professionals in their education roles and activities including teaching, education scholarship, advocacy and academic leadership.

The program is designed for people in an academic health science context who are committed to becoming change agents in their spheres of influence and beyond by centering principles of equity, diversity, inclusion, Indigeneity and accessibility in their leadership practice. This program is intended for those who are committed to challenging the status quo, and looking to develop tools, skills, and evolving practices to positively shape our future academic health sciences system.