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