Nov. 1, 2015
OHMES News Archive | 2015
November 2015
2016 University of Calgary Teaching & Learning Grants
The grants program provides resources and expertise to support projects that integrate research evidence into teaching practice; generate new knowledge about teaching and learning at the University of Calgary; and disseminate the results of that work to benefit others. Applications for the grants program are due February 8, 2016.
Grants are available in three distinct streams:
• Practice Grants
• Lesson Study Grants
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Grants
November 2015
The O’Brien Institute for Public Health, OHMES & the Department of Community Health Sciences present:
The Nature and Nurture of Professional Excellence
Speaker: Professor Ian Curran
Friday, November 27th 2015 - 12:00 to 12:50 p.m.
G500 – Health Sciences Centre, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary
Professor Curran will explore the challenges and imperatives of training high performing clinicians. He will introduce a range of conceptual models that collectively offer a unified approach to the nature and nurture of professional excellence.
Professor Curran is Assistant Director of Education & Professional Standards at the UK General Medical Council. He is Professor of Innovation and Excellence in Healthcare Education at Queen Mary University of London and was a consultant Anaesthetist at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He has been a Postgraduate Dean and has a wide range of experience in senior educational roles including regional, national and international policy work.
This event is a self approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. After the seminar, you are invited for continued discussion over coffee and cookies. This seminar is also available via an online AdobeConnect session: To attend the seminar from another location via your computer, click on this link:
https://connectmeeting.ucalgary.ca/oiph-nov27-15/
November 2015
Inclusion and Respect: Institutional Responsibilities of Professional Schools
Nitya Iyer, LL.M., LL.B.
Monday, November 30, 2015
8:00-9:00am
G750 Health Sciences Centre
Continental breakfast will be provided. Please RSVP to ohmes@ucalgary.ca
Nitya practices in the fields of administrative and constitutional law, with special expertise in human rights, freedom of information and protection of privacy, and professional regulation. She co-authored the Report of the Task Force on Misogyny, Sexism and Homophobia in the Dalhousie University Faculty of Dentistry in 2015.
Click here for full announcement
November 2015
The Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship (OHMES) invites you to join us for a CAME webinar:
Publishing and the CMEJ:
An Interactive Exploration of the CMEJ and its Role in Canada’s Medical Education Landscape
Presenter: Dr. Marcel D’Eon
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
10:00-11:00am
G43A – Heritage Medical Research Building (through G02 doors)
OR
1:00-2:00pm
G750 Health Sciences Centre
Please RSVP to ohmes@ucalgary.ca and specify which time you will attend.
There is no registration fee for this group session.
November 2015
AMEE Webinar: Communities and community relationships in medical education: a critical realist systematic review
Presenter: Rachel Ellaway, PhD
Thursday, November 12, 2015
9:00-10:00am
G748 Health Sciences Centre
There is no cost to attend. Please RSVP to ohmes@ucalgary.ca
Background: the relationships between medical schools and communities have long troubled and inspired medical educators and medical education programs. A group at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine recently conducted a BEME critical realist systematic review into communities and community relationships in medical education.
Aim of webinar: Dr. Ellaway will reprise the review, describe the literature on communities in medical education, and explore the diverse relationships between communities and medical education programs, along with their practical, ideological, theoretical, and political dimensions. In doing so, she will propose a range of methods and approaches to advance scholarship in this critical aspect of the medical education mission.
Who the webinar is aimed at: All those with an interest in the role and function of communities in medical education.
October 2015
What are the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada's
research interests, aspirations, future directions?
Tanya Horsley PhD
Associate Director, Research Unit
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
Monday, November 23, 2015
12:00-1:00pm
G743 Health Sciences Centre, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary
Click here for full announcement.
October 2015
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The second Health and Medical Education Scholarship Symposium sponsored by the Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship (OHMES) will be held at the Health Sciences Centre at the University of Calgary on February 17th and 18th, 2016. This symposium will showcase work in health and medical education research and innovation in Calgary and beyond, and is intended to encourage future collaborations among researchers with common interests in this critical area of research and innovation.
Format
The symposium is scheduled from 12.30pm on Wednesday February 17th to 12.30pm on Thursday February 18th 2015. We will feature a number of keynote speakers, oral presentations, workshops, a poster session, a panel debate, and an unconference.
Eligibility
Faculty, staff, and students affiliated with a post-secondary institution are invited to submit abstracts based on health or medical education research, innovation, or scholarship.
Abstract Submission
Investigators interested in submitting an abstract for review must provide a brief overview of their research or innovation. Please click here for a submission form.
Abstract Deadline
4:00PM MST, 1st December, 2015
If you have any questions regarding the Call for Abstracts or the Symposium, please contact OHMES at ohmes@ucalgary.ca or 220-4342. We look forward to your submissions!
October 2015
AMEE Webinar: Teaching sociology in undergraduate medical education
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
8:00-9:00am
G750 Health Sciences Centre
There is no cost to attend. Please RSVP to ohmes@ucalgary.ca
Background: In the UK Sociology is recognized as a core discipline within medical curriculum. However there is significant variation in both the content and mode of delivery and assessment across institutions. In 2010, the UK Behavioural and Social Sciences Teaching network (BeSST) convened a group to design a core sociology curriculum for clinical educators. The outcome is a new consensus document for sociology teaching in medical education.
Aims
1. Outline the development of the core curriculum
2. Use an example of a theme within the core curriculum to discuss learning teaching and assessment of sociology within medical education
3. Identify best practice for teaching sociology in medical education drawing on experiences within different contexts.
September 2015
Health Science and Medical Education
Research and Innovation Funding Competition 2015-2016
Deadline: 16 November 2015
The Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship (OHMES) was created in 2013 to support and develop a culture of excellence in health and medical education scholarship at the University of Calgary. To that end, OHMES is pleased to announce the second annual Health Science and Medical Education Research and Innovation Funding Competition.
For this call we define two kinds of project submissions:
- Research projects: these are focused on knowledge generation through the use of scientific methods of various kinds, typically based around the exploration of a particular set of circumstances such as the impact of an intervention, the experiences of learners and teachers, or a recurring topic across a body of research literature.
- Innovation projects: these are focused on the application of knowledge (such as research findings and research syntheses) to guide changes in educational practice to improve, extend, or refocus them. Innovation projects should include knowledge synthesis, application, and evaluation stages.
Please refer to the competition announcement for full eligibility and application requirements.
September 2015
OHMES invites you to join us for Royal College webinar:
The CanMEDS Teaching and Assessment Toolguide
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
9:00-10:00am
G743 Health Sciences Centre
In this one-hour webinar hosted by the Royal College, Drs. Sue Glover Takahashi and Anna Oswald will introduce and explore this standalone, practical, just-in-time resource designed specifically to support Program Directors and faculty as they implement CanMEDS 2015. The CanMEDS Teaching and Assessment Tools Guide won’t be released until ICRE 2015 in October, so join this one hour webinar for your chance to get a sneak peek at this yet-to-be-released product. This session will include time for questions and discussion.
RSVP to ohmes@ucalgary.ca
September 2015
OHMES invites you to join us for the first presentation in the 2015-2016 CAME Webinar Series:
Changing to a competency-based training program…
Lessons learned from the Calgary Family Medicine residency experience
Presenter: Dr. Keith Wycliffe-Jones
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
10:00-11:00am or 1:00-2:00pm*
G750 - Health Sciences Centre
Please RSVP to ohmes@ucalgary.ca
There is no registration fee for this group session.
*Session is repeated at 1:00pm. Both sessions will be in G750.
August 2015
2016 Robert Maudsley Fellowship for Studies in Medical Education
The goal of this one-year fellowship is to increase the number and quality of professionally trained medical educators in Canada by providing training to fellows in the science of medical education to selected promising candidates. The program is to help specialists acquire knowledge and skills in the field of medical education in order to develop educational programs, evaluation methods and medical education research that apply to any phase of the continuum of medical education.
Further details at: http://www.royalcollege.ca/portal/page/portal/rc/awards/grants/medical_education/fellowship_grant
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July 2015
Welcome to Dr. Rachel Ellaway!
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Rachel Ellaway as co-director of the Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship (OHMES), joining Dr. Ian Mitchell who has served as Director since 2013. Rachel is a Professor in Community Health Sciences in the Medical Education specialization. She joins us from the Northern Ontario School of Medicine where she held an appointment as an Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of Curriculum and Planning.
Rachel holds a PhD in Medical Education from the University of Edinburgh and has received numerous awards and recognitions including the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education, the John Ruedy and the Infoway e-Health Awards in Medical Education from the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC), and a Merit Award from the Canadian Association for Medical Education (CAME). Among her many contributions to the discipline, she is an editor for Advances in Health Sciences Education and has developed a range of medical education research projects with faculty, students and staff.
July 2015
University of Calgary Teaching & Learning Grants Awarded
Congratulations to the following Cumming School of Medicine recipients of the 2015 University of Calgary Teaching & Learning Grants:
Investigators: Alicia Ponton-Carss, Marcia Clark
Project title: "A Team Training Program for Surgical Residents Utilizing the TeamSTEPPS Curriculum"
Investigators: Suzette Cooke, Adam Cheng, Sarah Hall
Project title: "A Decade of Innovation: Evaluation of the Pediatric Inter-Disciplinary In-Patient Staff Simulation Education (PRISE) Program at the Alberta Children’s Hospital"
IInvestigators: Heather Jamniczky, Kent Hecker, Olav Krigolson
Project title: "Use your Head! Quantifying Effectiveness of Just-in-Time Teaching in the Anatomical Sciences"
Investigators: Janet de Groot, Amanda Roze des Ordons, Tom Rosenal, Lara Nixon
Project title: "Evaluation of a Faculty Development Program to Cultivate Capability and Capacity in Educating for Humanism and Professionalism"
Click here for more details on these awards.
May 2015
OHMES invites you to join us for the fifth presentation in the 2014-2015 CAME Webinar Series:
Title: Rose-coloured glasses and other conundrums: Self-assessment and its influence upon feedback and learning
Presenter: Dr. Joan Saergent
Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Time: 10:00-11:00am
Room: G801E BACS Centre - Health Sciences Centre
Cost: none
Please email ohmes@ucalgary.ca if you would like to attend.
February 2015
Call for Submissions
Proposals are now being accepted for the 2015 AAMC Medical Education Meeting. To review submission guidelines and submit a proposal, please visit the website.Proposals can be submitted for the following types of sessions:
- Emerging Solutions
- Learning with Technology
- Research Abstracts
- Innovation Abstracts
Deadline
All submissions must be received on or before March 25 at 11:59 pm PT.
Previously Announced Call for Submissions:
The 2015 Call for Papers in Research and Medical Education (RIME)
DEADLINE FOR RIME SUBMISSIONS - MARCH 2
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February 2015
Enhancing Humanism and Professionalism - Faculty Development Series
COURSE GOAL: To provide a forum for faculty who value humanistic care and professionalism to come together and
- Hone their skills and knowledge, and share ideas across disciplines
- Further develop their identity as local champions for humanism and professionalism
This course aligns with the Cumming School of Medicine's commitment to promoting a culture of respect and professionalism. The research component to this course is primarily to provide feedback to optimize the value of current and future course delivery.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
- To enhance clinical educators' capacity to teach and role model humanism and professionalism.
- To develop strategies for integrating humanism and professionalism into clinical work in a way that enhances patient care and community engagement.
- To foster ongoing development of medical educators' professional identity through communitites of practice for professionalism.
WHO THE COURSE IS FOR:
Clinical educators who regularly supervise residents and/or medical students in clinical settings, with a minimum of 2 years as a faculty member
COURSE FORMAT:
12 highly interactive Sessions, Tuesday 4-6 pm, April 7 - June 30, 2015 (no session April 28 due to CCME), G43A HMRB. Sessions for skill development will alternate with experiential and reflective sessions
For more info and registration visit https://www.ucalgary.ca/ofd/EnhancingHumanismRegistration
February 2015
2014 OHMES Funding Competition Results
OHMES is pleased to announce the following awards in the 2014 Health and Medical Education Research and Innovation Funding Competition:
Title
PI
Funding
Simulation in Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development (CME & PD): What will it take to bring simulation to the practicing physician?
Dr. Lara Cooke
$8,928.18
Exploring contexts and experiences that support senior resident physicians successfully meeting professionalism challenges: A qualitative study
Dr. Janet de Groot
$9,162.00
Experiencing the Human Touch in Medicine
Dr. Martina Kelly
$6,896.00
The impact of spaced instruction on Emergency Medical Services (EMS) provider long term retention of pediatric resuscitation: a randomized controlled trial (RCT)
Dr. Catherine Patocka
$9,235.00
We received 16 applications for this competition, and were pleased to see the quality and breadth of proposals. The intent of this competition was to stimulate work and interest in education scholarship, and we hope to make this an annual competition.
January 2015
Health and Medical Education Scholarship Symposium
Tuesday, February 17, 2016
8:00am-4:30pm
Health Sciences Centre, UofC
EVENT OVERVIEW
This free event will showcase work in health and medical education research and scholarship in Calgary, and encourage future
collaborations among researchers with common interests. The morning schedule will include presentations from national and
local experts in medical education, as well as a poster session. Following lunch, there will be a plenary session, followed by concurrent
workshops on relevant scholarship topics. We are excited to welcome three well-known external experts in medical education research
to the event: Dr. Meredith Young and Dr. Farhan Bhanji from McGill University, and Dr. Rachel Ellaway from the Northern Ontario School
of Medicine.
WHO CAN ATTEND
The event is open to anyone with an interest in health/ medical education scholarship, from novices to experts.
REGISTRATION - NOW CLOSED (Please contact our office at ohmes@ucalgary.ca to inquire about late registration)
Deadline: 10 February 2015
Cost: FREE
Click here to access the full program.
January 2015
The Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship is pleased to present:
Content and Rationale of Junior and Senior Preceptors Responding to Residents' Educational Needs Revisited
Luc Côté, MSW, PhD (ed.)
Visiting Professor
Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine
Université Laval, Québec
Thursday, February 12, 2015
12:00-1:00pm
G637 Health Sciences Centre, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary
Côté & Bordage ( Acad. Med., 2012) conducted a qualitative and correlational study in order to investigate the content and conceptual frameworks of preceptor feedback to residents during case presentations. They found that preceptors’ use of conceptual frameworks while giving feedback to residents was positively associated with a greater diversity of responses and that senior preceptors produced more responses, used more conceptual frameworks, and asked more probing-challenging questions than junior preceptors. More recently, they conducted a new study to further confirm the results obtained with a broader sample. The presentation will be an opportunity to detail what they did and found, and to discuss the impacts for clinical education.
To attend the seminar from another location via your computer, click on this link:
https://connectmeeting.ucalgary.ca/cotefeb2015/
Enter as a guest. You may join the session at any time. It is advisable to test your audio before the seminar starts. The AdobeConnect session will be archived and accessible for later viewing on the OHMES website atwww.ucalgary.ca/ohmes.
January 2015
Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship
and
Canadian Association for Medical Education
present:
Scholarship and Innovation
in Medical Education*:
A Guide to Developing and Disseminating an Educational Project
Friday, February 6, 2015
8:30am-3:30pm
G384, Health Sciences Centre, University of Calgary
Learning Objectives
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to articulate what scholarship means to them and their institutions; recognize the key principles of scholarship, outline the key elements including clear goals, adequate preparation, effective methods, meaningful results, effective presentation, and reflective critique; and have a clear plan for initiating and implementing a project.
Target Audience
Medical educators and teachers in the Cumming School of Medicine who are novice to intermediate level scholars.
Registration
Deadline: 30 January 2015 (limited spaces available)
Cost: none
Process: Email your name, affiliation, and contact information to ohmes@ucalgary.ca.
Click here for full announcement.
If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please contact OHMES at ohmes@ucalgary.ca or 220-4342.
*This workshop was developed under the auspices of the Canadian Association for Medical Education.
January 2015
Call for Applications
University of Calgary Teaching and Learning Grants Program
Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning
Deadline: 23 February 2015
Click here for more details
January 2015
Call for Proposals
University of Calgary Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching
Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning
Deadline: 2 March 2015
Click here for more details.
January 2015
OHMES invites you to join us for the third presentation in the 2014-2015 CAME Webinar Series:
Title: Competency Based Medical Education
Presenter: Dr. Linda Snell
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Time: 10:00-11:00am
Room: G732 Health Sciences Centre
Cost: none
Please email ohmes@ucalgary.ca if you would like to attend.
November 2014
The Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship is pleased to announce a:
Call for Abstracts
for the
Health and Medical Education Scholarship Symposium
February 17, 2015
The symposium will showcase work in health and medical education research and innovation in Calgary, and will include a facilitated poster session. We invite you to submit an abstract for this session.
Eligibility: Faculty, staff and students affiliated with a post-secondary institution
Abstract Deadline: 18 December 2014
Click here for Call for Abstracts guidelines and form.
We look forward to your submissions!