Nov. 1, 2017
OHMES News Archive | 2017
December 2017
CAME ANNOUNCES RECIPIENTS OF THE 2018 CAME CERTIFICATE OF MERIT AWARD
CAME is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the 2018 CAME Certificate of Merit which promotes, recognizes and rewards faculty committed to medical education in Canadian medical schools.
These deserving colleagues will be recognized at the upcoming CAME Annual General Meeting which is held in conjunction with the Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME). The CAME Annual General Meeting will be taking place on Saturday, April 28, 2018 from 18:30 to 20:30 at the Halifax Convention Centre on the Argyle floor, in room A2.
Please join us in congratulating these individuals for their commitment to medical education in Canada.
University of Calgary
Dr Adrian Harvey, Dr Vincent Grant, Dr Gregory Kline
November 2017
The Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship (OHMES) invites you to join us for a CAME webinar:
Raters as the Unit of Analysis in Performance Based Assessment of Clinical Competence
Presenter: Dr. Walter Tavares, University of Toronto
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
1:00-2:00pm
G748 Health Sciences Centre
Learning Objectives:
1. Position rater contributions in common validity frameworks
2. Describe the act of rater based assessments including points of threat to assessment frameworks
3. Describe organizing frameworks in rater cognition research
4. Discuss the role of rating demands on rater performance / behaviour.
Please RSVP to ohmes@ucalgary.ca.
There is no registration fee for this group session.
September 2017
Please join us for the following October visiting professor seminars:
August 2017
The Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship (OHMES) invites you to join us for a CAME webinar:
Humanism in Medicine: Reflection, Dialogue, and the Possibilities of Care
Presenter: Dr. Arno Kumagai, University of Toronto
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
10:00-11:00am
G732 Health Sciences Centre
Learning Objectives:
1. Explore the meanings of patient or person-centred care from a variety of perspectives: evidence-based, philosophical, ethical and humanistic.
2. Explore the role of dialogue and reflection in ways in which person-centred care may be learned and taught.
3. Understand how education in person-centred care and education for equity and social justice are actually one and the same.
4. Reflect on the power of the humanities in understanding the human dimensions of illness and care.
Please RSVP to ohmes@ucalgary.ca.
There is no registration fee for this group session.
August 2017
The Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship (OHMES) invites you to join us for a CAME webinar:
Humanism in Medicine: Reflection, Dialogue, and the Possibilities of Care
Presenter: Dr. Arno Kumagai, University of Toronto
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
10:00-11:00am
G732 Health Sciences Centre
Learning Objectives:
1. Explore the meanings of patient or person-centred care from a variety of perspectives: evidence-based, philosophical, ethical and humanistic.
2. Explore the role of dialogue and reflection in ways in which person-centred care may be learned and taught.
3. Understand how education in person-centred care and education for equity and social justice are actually one and the same.
4. Reflect on the power of the humanities in understanding the human dimensions of illness and care.
Please RSVP to ohmes@ucalgary.ca.
There is no registration fee for this group session.
June 2017
University of Calgary Teaching & Learning Grants Awarded
Congratulations to the following Cumming School of Medicine recipients of the 2017 University of Calgary Teaching & Learning Grants:
Investigators: Itode Vivian Ewa, Rachel Defina
Project title: "Competency-based medical education in the long term care setting: Exploring residents' perspectives of learning in this environment"
Investigators: T. Lee-Ann Hawkins, Meghan Vlasschaert, Irene Ma, David Sam
Project title: "Is high-fidelity simulation an effective educational tool in obstetric medicine? Examining the potential impact of emotion and cognitive load on knowledge acquisition and physician performance"
IInvestigators: Gregory Kline, Laura Hinz, Elizabeth Freiheit
Project title: "Are We Stressing Our Learners? Physiologic Impact of Internal Medicine Call Models on Residents"
Investigators: Diane Lorenzetti, Rita Dhungel, Gina Dimitropoulos, Tatiana Oshchepkova, Liza Lorenzetti, Tracey L. Clancy, Michele Jacobsen, Ann Calvert, Lorelli Nowell
Project title: "An exploration of peer mentorship in graduate education"
Investigators: Maria Palacios-Mackay, Maitreyi Raman, Stephen Mintsioulus
Project title: "Improving the quality of GI referrals: A team-based Approach to Enhance Family Medicine Residency Training"
Click here for more details on these awards.
May 2017
The Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship (OHMES) invites you to join us for a CAME webinar:
Effective Presentations at Conferences: The message and the metaphor
Presenters: Risa Freeman, Morag Paton, Rick Penciner
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
10:00-11:00am
G743 Health Sciences Centre
Learning Objectives:
By the end of the webinar participants will be able to:
1. Discuss why bullets (on slides) are lethal and what you might consider doing differently with your presentation software
2. Describe how the message and the metaphor combine into creating an effective presentation
3. Find some sources online to access high quality digital image files
Please RSVP to ohmes@ucalgary.ca.
There is no registration fee for this group session.
May 2017
Jocelyn Lockyer named honorary fellow of the Royal College
(From the Cumming School of Medicine News Digest 11 May 2017)
The Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) and its Council have bestowed one of just three honorary fellowships on the Cumming School of Medicine's Senior Associate Dean, Education, Dr. Jocelyn Lockyer in recognition of her stature and remarkable accomplishments in medical sciences. Dr. Lockyer's nomination was founded in her exceptional contributions to clinical care, mentorship, teaching, and inspirational leadership – all attributes that are strongly aligned with the Royal College’s mission and mandate.
The purpose of honorary fellowship is to honour distinguished physicians, surgeons or other persons for outstanding performance in a particular vocation or area of professional activity, consistent with the aims and objectives of the Royal College.
Dr. Lockyer's honorary fellowship will be conferred at a convocation ceremony in conjunction with the Royal College’s International Conference on Residency Education in October 2017, in Quebec City, Quebec.
May 2017
Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship
Health Science and Medical Education
Research and Innovation Funding Competition 2017-2018
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 fourth 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, development, application, and evaluation stages.
OHMES has instituted a Letter of Intent process for this competition, in order to ensure that the proposed project has a direct link to medical education before proceeding to the full proposal stage. It is also anticipated that the LOI process will assist applicants in developing a full proposal.
Due: 29 September 2017
2017 Announcement and Call for LOIs
April 2017
February 2017
The Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship (OHMES) invites you to join us for a CAME webinar:
Taking the Sting Out of Assessment: Is There a Role for Progress Testing?
Presenter: Dr. Debra Pugh
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
10:00-11:00am
G648 Health Sciences Centre
Learning Objectives:
Participants will:
1. To explore the unintended consequences of assessment
2. To consider how progress testing might mitigate some of these unintended consequences
3. To consider the implications of implementing progress testing
Please RSVP to ohmes@ucalgary.ca.
There is no registration fee for this group session.
January 2017
The Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship (OHMES) invites you to join us for a CAME webinar:
Where does a learner start and end? Exploring the cyborg paradox in medical education.
Presenter: Dr. Rachel Ellaway
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
10:00-11:00am
G750 Health Sciences Centre
Learning Objectives:
Participants will:
1. Describe the ‘cyborg paradox’ and how it applies to the field of medical education
2. Situate their practice within the debates around augmentation and socio-material entanglement as applied to medical education
3. Develop responses to the challenges of augmentation and socio-material entanglement in different areas of medical education
Please RSVP to ohmes@ucalgary.ca.
There is no registration fee for this group session.