Archived Sessions
The Faculty Development Program hosts the Clinical Teacher Series throughout the academic year. The 2024/2025 academic year's sessions are currently ongoing, and as recordings of those sessions become available they replace the previous 2023/2024 recordings. To view the most recent recordings, see the library below.
Attending live sessions awards Mainpro+ credits. To view and register for upcoming Clinical Teacher Series sessions, visit Education Sessions.
Introduction to Having a Learner In Your Practice: Undergraduate Preceptor Orientation
30 mins | Facilitator: Lillian Au
- How to build an effective learning environment.
- How to create an orientation checklist for your learner
- Scheduling an efficient clinic day - wave scheduling
- Learn how to teach to the level of your learner - includes overview of MD Program informing the teaching expectations for LCE, electives, clerkship
30 mins | Facilitators: David Pickle, Martin Tieu, Ann Lee
- What’s new for LCE, FM Electives, Clerkship
Facilitator: Lillian Au
- Learn how to prepare your learner to see a patient.
- Review tips on how to directly observe your learner.
- How do you teach a procedural skill to your learner?
- How to incorporate clinical reasoning and questioning in optimizing your clinical teaching?
Facilitator: Lillian Au
- Define feedback and describe the importance of feedback in medical education.
- Discuss challenges of giving & receiving feedback.
- Develop strategies for providing effective feedback to your learner.
Facilitators: Ann Lee, Sam Horvey
- Define formative assessment (eg. field notes), and summative assessment
- Reviewing pitfalls and pearls of assessment.
- Discuss how to complete a meaningful assessment of your learner’s performance.
Facilitators: Sam Horvey, Joanne Baergen
- Learn to troubleshoot a difficult learning situation - is it the learner, the environment or the preceptor (or combination of one or more?
- Discuss strategies on how to best approach difficult situations, include developing a learning plan
Antiracism in the Clinical Setting: Parts 1 & 2
Antiracism in the Clinical Setting Part 1/2
Facilitator: Eniola Salami
- Define racism, anti-racism, anti-oppression, microaggressions and covert racism.
- Define positionality and intersectionality and discuss its effect on clinical teaching
- Summarize the changing landscape of accreditation standards for anti-racism in medical education and the implications for clinical teachers
Antiracism in the Clinical Setting Part 2/2
Facilitator: Eniola Salami
- Introduce practical ways clinical teachers can avoid implicit racial bias in patient presentations, diagnostic reasoning, evidence appraisal and management using an interactive case study
- Introduce tools clinical teachers can use to evaluate learners with regards to their anti-racism teaching/education
Facilitator: Sanja Kostov
- Communicate more accurately using inclusive language as related to gender and sexuality
- Explore techniques for creating safe and affirming professional spaces for colleagues, staff, learners and patients
- Incorporate practical tips for teaching 2SLGBTQIA+ affirming care into clinical practice