Upcoming Events
Upcoming events offered at the CFD are listed below. Become a member of the CFD for exclusive discounts,
and special access to members-only programming and resources. Click here to learn more.
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3AprThis virtual community event is for CFD members to come together to during a lunch and learn to discuss emerging curiosities, questions and tensions within health professions education on the topic of the month.
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4AprParticipants 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.
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6AprThis workshop will guide participants through the application of the “Principles for Anti-Oppressive Program Development in HPE” guiding principles framework to their own program development needs. This principles framework is for anyone who is involved in the process of designing, developing and/or delivering programs in health professions education. It includes key questions around several decision points in this process, including budgeting, recruitment, format, accessibility, content choices, and more.
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11AprThis program introduces participants to the language and frameworks of anti-oppression and social justice. It explores how the Canadian healthcare system continues to participate in discrimination and oppression. It also begins to explore how health care professionals can engage in praxis, which is theory-informed action in the pursuit of social justice.
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12AprThis workshop introduces key strategies related to teaching in the clinical setting. Participants will learn how to apply strategies to enhance the educational climate and compare/contrast different preceptorship models. We discuss the importance of transparency and non-hierarchical teaching approaches.
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18AprThis workshop explores methods for leading change in complex environments. It will provide participants with frameworks for leading change, methods for surfacing and surmounting hidden barriers, and techniques to engage the creativity and commitment of relevant stakeholders. We will explore communication leadership techniques and organizational culture that optimize successful change.
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27AprThis workshop provides participants with the opportunity to both explore wellness tensions and identify ways to address them. Participants identify where tensions exist for their own roles that impact wellbeing and discuss approaches to ‘navigating’ these tensions.
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3MayUtilizing 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.
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23MayThis workshop explores and demystifies the concepts of power, privilege, oppression, and systemic injustice. The goal is for participants to feel equipped and empowered to take accountability, and to collaboratively identify practices to respond to and address microaggressions in the learning environment.
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25MayJoin us for an exclusive Members Event that is free for all CFD members. Network with fellow CFD Members and learn the simple building blocks of transformative interactions in conversations so that you can intentionally apply them in your next conversation.
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25MayFor those that can not attend in person, join us on Zoom for this exclusive members event that is free for all CFD Members. Learn the simple building blocks of transformative interactions in conversations so that you can intentionally apply them in your next conversation.