Upcoming Events

Looking to grow your facilitation skills? Join us in this interactive workshop that will support you in gaining valuable insights into key principles of facilitation and encouraging engagement both virtually and in-person.

Interested in applying to the Helen Batty Awards? Join our drop-in session to learn more about eligibility and ask questions about your application.

Managing personal finances as a physician requires a clear, practical approach to understand investment options, avoid common financial pitfalls, and take control of one’s money without falling prey to industry bias or hard-sell tactics. This presentation offers a “nuts and bolts” overview designed to equip physicians with essential money management skills, helping them contextualize spending, maximize happiness, and explore pathways to financial independence.

Are you interested in reducing barriers to learning and responding to the increasing variability amongst students in today’s classroom? This workshop will explore the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) model—a set of principles for curriculum development, engagement and assessment that can help you create an more inclusive learning environment that responds to diverse student needs and learning preferences.

Build confidence in your clinical teaching with tools you can apply right away. This workshop offers foundational strategies to help you teach more effectively in busy, real-world clinical settings.

Are you interested in further developing your mentorship skills? Join this interactive session to strengthen your skills as a mentor and become a more intentional and confident mentor within your clinical or academic setting.

Deepen your understanding of how patients and people with lived experience can meaningfully contribute to health professions education. Whether you're new to this work or looking to strengthen existing practices, you’ll leave with clearer goals, ethical insights, and a personalized plan to support inclusive, respectful, and impactful patient involvement.

Learn to co-facilitate an interprofessional foundational activity about partnership with Patients/Family/Caregivers in partnership with Patients/Family/Caregivers.

The TLC program is designed for current and/or aspiring supervisors/preceptors from all health disciplines to develop the foundational knowledge and skills needed to effectively teach learners in various clinical contexts. it includes eLearning modules and facilitated group learning sessions.

This workshop will provide participants with opportunities to practice new techniques that will help them be calmer, clearer and more confident when dealing with learners in difficulty.

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.

Are you someone who is in a leadership role or responsible influencing people/change and looking to enhance the performance or support the development of another in the areas of teaching, leadership, scholarship and advocacy? Join this interactive workshop to strengthen your ability to support others through coaching—not only improving teaching performance but also cultivating a culture of continuous growth and professional development.

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.

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.