Workshop Topics

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

Hot Topics

  • Incorporating AI in education and practice: what educators need to know
  • Walking on Eggshells: Having difficult feedback conversations
  • Teaching about the climate crisis and planetary health
  • Managing assessment burden in CBD
  • Best practices for competency committees
  • Safe to struggle: Balancing productive struggle & psychological safety to develop adaptive learners.

Current workshops 

Teaching Practices

  • Using learning theory to enhance teaching

  • Mentoring, advising, & coaching

  • Promoting active learning

  • Creating a safe learning environment

  • Facilitating small group learning

  • Developing master adaptive learners

  • Teaching small groups

  • Inclusive teaching in the classroom

  • Addressing microaggressions/mistreatment in the classroom

Clinical Teaching

  • Teaching Trauma-informed Care

  • Teaching Communication Skills

  • Professional identity formation

  • Fatigue risk management

  • Teaching clinical reasoning

  • Remediating clinical reasoning

  • Addressing Mistreatment in the clinical setting

  • Feedback series: coaching, effective written feedback, difficult feedback, reluctance to give feedback

  • Teaching with the patient present

  • Teaching a skill

  • Teaching and supervising virtual care

  • Teaching for team-based care

  • Special Topics: teaching handovers, personal learning plans, patient safety, CQI

Curriculum

  • Curriculum development in medical education

  • Curriculum and exam mapping

  • Writing meaningful learning objectives

  • Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum

  • Program evaluation 

Assessment/Evaluation

  • Assessing learning in the moment

  • Managing CBD assessment burden

  • Mitigating bias in clinical assessment

  • Developing MCQs and OSCEs

  • Best practices for competency Committees

  • Designing programmatic assessment

Special Topics

  • How To's: PowerPoint, flipping the classroom

  • Teaching with technology

  • Teaching for team based practice

  • Integrating QUIPS curricula into your program

  • Getting started with simulation

  • Teaching across generations

Research

  • Getting started with educational research (methods, ethics, proposals)

  • Knowledge mobilization in the digital age

  • Qualitative data analysis

Professional and Career Development

  • Preparing for promotion (teaching dossier, teaching philosophy statement)

  • Leadership development workshops

  • Mentoring and coaching 

  • Conflict management

  • Creating a personal mission statement