Topics Offered

ISME provides faculty development on a range of topics.  We also develop custom workshops and resources upon request. Reach out if you have a faculty development question or need at isme@umanitoba.ca 

Emerging areas of focus:

  1. Incorporating AI in education and practice: what educators need to know
  2. Teaching about the climate crises and planetary health
  3. Managing assessment burden in CBD
  4. Best practices for competency committees
  5. Safe to struggle: balancing productive struggle & psychological safety to develop adaptive learners.

Key teaching and learning topics that we customize for the particular audience

  1. Giving feedback (intro, coaching feedback, advanced methods, writing effective written feedback/narrative comments, and giving difficult feedback)
  2. Working with a learner who is struggling
  3. Assessing clinical learning in the moment
  4. The one-minute preceptor
  5. Using questioning to promote learning (and create a safe learning environment)
  6. Addressing mistreatment (which includes bystander training and teaching learners to address mistreatment)
  7. The hidden curriculum
  8. Creating a safe(r) learning environment
  9. Educational research- (from getting started to implementing, knowledge mobilization, etc)
  10. Giving a ‘good talk’
  11. Using learning theory to enhance clinical teaching
  12. Teaching with the patient present/Bedside teaching
  13. Promoting active learning
  14. Mitigating bias in assessments (clinical) (including one specifically on the challenge of favouritism)
  15. Teaching communication skills
  16. Conflict management
  17. Developing multiple choice questions and OSCEs
  18. Leadership development (intro, leading change, inclusive leadership)
  19. Facilitating small groups (including teaching tutorials in UGME)
  20. Teaching clinical reasoning
  21. Remediating problems in clinical reasoning
  22. Teaching clinical skills
  23. Getting started with simulation
  24. Program evaluation for residency programs
  25. Effective use of PowerPoint
  26. Flipping the classroom
  27. Curriculum and Exam mapping
  28. Teaching across generations
  29. Special topics in clinical teaching (e.g. teaching handovers, using personal learning plans, teaching patient safety, teaching clinical CQI)
  30. Mentoring, advising, and coaching residents
  31. Writing learning objectives
  32. Preparing for promotion (creating a teaching dossier, writing your teaching philosophy statement)
  33. Fostering reflection
  34. Supporting professional identity formation
  35. Supervising learners providing virtual care
  36. Teaching about fatigue risk management /managing fatigue
  37. Fostering professionalism
  38. Teaching trauma informed care