Finding ways to develop teaching skills, while maintaining the workload and schedule of your clinical role, isn’t easy. However, to be an effective medical educator requires continued development of your teaching-specific, nonclinical skills. To help you with this balance, the Practice-Based Small Group (PBSG-ED) modules were created and made readily available to all Waterloo Regional Campus faculty members.

What is PBSG-ED?

• Peer reviewed faculty development modules specifically targeting medical educators.
• Case-based modules, running from 90 to 120 minutes in groups of five to 10 people.
• Facilitated by a fellow faculty member at your worksite.

Benefits to you

• Stay within your clinical workplace to participate in faculty development.
• Facilitated, self-learning modules allow you to experience a learning environment similar to the McMaster problem-based learning curriculum used in the undergraduate MD program.
• Topics have been identified by your peers as the most important for developing as a medical educator.

Topics

• Feedback
• Medical Mistakes: How to help learners with errors and adverse outcomes
• Time Efficient Teaching Strategies: Teaching on the fly
• The Learner in Difficulty
• Evaluation of Learner Performance
• Preparing for New Learners: Planning and orientation
• International Medical Graduates: Orienting, teaching and connecting
• Working Together: Inter-professional education and the collaboration among health professionals
• Developing Professionalism in our Learners: Critical conversations
• Conflict Management: Strategies for clinical preceptors

• Teaching that Counts: The One-Minute Preceptor Model – February 2019
• Teaching that Counts: 7 Tips for Filling out EPA Assessment – December 2018
• Teaching that Counts: Tailoring your Teaching to the Individual Learner – November 2018
• Teaching that Counts: Tagging your Teachable Moment – July 2018
• Teaching that Counts: Giving Feedback – February 2019

• Taking A.C.T.I.O.N against microaggression – UNMC | Faculty Development – November 2018
• The Psychology of Focusing on What Really Matters – Dr. Joseph A. Kim, PhD – October 2018
• KeyLIME (Key Literature in Medical Education) Podcast

• McMaster University Program for Faculty Development Event Calendar
• Introduction to the McMaster Program for Faculty Development by Dr. Anne Wong
• CMPA: the Physician as Teacher: What are the Responsibilities?
• CPSO Professional Responsibilities in Undergraduate Medical Education (PDF)
• CPSO Professional Responsibilities in Postgraduate Medical Education (PDF)
• Royal College CanMeds Framework
• CanMEDS-FM 2017
• Royal College Competency By Design Resources
• ICBME webcasts: archived webinars on Competency-Based Medical Education
• RCPSC Whitepaper Series on Future of Postgraduate Medical Education Published as an eBook