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Teaching and Learning in the Clinical Context (TLC) Co-Facilitator (Stipend Role)

Start Date: July 2025

End Date: June 2026 (1-year renewable contract)

Commitment: Co-develop and co-facilitate 5 virtual group learning sessions per cohort, attend committee meetings

Location: Remote

Stipend Amount: $1,575/year

Position Overview:
We are looking for a Co-Facilitator for the Teaching and Learning in the Clinical Context (TLC) Program for the 2025–2026 academic year. The TLC program is a virtual clinical teaching program designed for current and/or aspiring clinical teachers from all health disciplines who provide teaching directly to learners in a clinical context. The program is open to clinical teachers who have an interest in developing or refreshing their clinical teaching knowledge and skills.

Program Goals:
Participants of the TLC program will:
• Develop the foundational knowledge and skills needed to teach in the clinical context
• Recognize how to be adaptive clinical teachers, responsive to unique contextual and learner needs

The TLC program takes place online over a 12-week period. It includes both self-paced, self-directed e-learning modules and facilitated group learning sessions. Participants must complete all components of the program.

Key Responsibilities:
• Co-develop synchronous group learning sessions (~6 hrs total)
• Co-facilitate synchronous group learning sessions [5 sessions per cohort (9.5 hrs total/year) + ~8 hrs of prep time (e.g., review of modules) total/year]
• Attend bi-annual TLC Committee meetings

Synchronous Session Facilitation Expectations:
• Collaborate with co-facilitators
• Facilitate and encourage dialogue
• Underpin facilitation with principles of equity and inclusion
• Invite and respect different forms/sources/types of expertise and knowledge (e.g., lived experience, theoretical, practical)
• Be flexible and responsive to the needs of the group
• Encourage the generation of new questions, ideas and possibilities

Qualifications:
• Experience facilitating an interprofessional group
• Member of a health profession
• Experience with clinical teaching
• Knowledge of foundational concepts in health professions education
• Experience in faculty development
• Experience facilitating virtual education sessions (Zoom experience an asset)

Application Process:
We are committed to a fair and equitable process. Interested parties must submit a letter of intent outlining their interest in the role, and a short (4-page maximum) CV outlining their relevant experience to Amanda.Binns@unityhealth.to. If there are any accommodations applicants need to submit their letter of intent and CV, please let Amanda.Binns@unityhealth.to know and we would be happy to work with you.

Application Deadline: June 30, 2025

Volunteer Opportunity: Resource Hub Editorial Committee

The Resource Hub houses faculty development resources related to multiple topics of interest in health professions education. The hub is meant to be a one stop shop for faculty development resources across professions, and learner contexts.

As a member of the Resource Hub Editorial Committee you will be invited to:

  1. Review 1-2 resources a year in your identified area(s) of expertise
  2. Review current resources on the hub in your identified area(s) of expertise for continued relevance; and,
  3. Recommend ways to improve resource hub – including gaps in content, or ways to (re)organize

If you are interested in becoming a reviewer, please email Alexandria.Suliman@unityhealth.to.

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