CPD Says Goodbye to Esteemed Colleague

CEPD is bidding a fond farewell to Education Consultant, Accreditation, Jessica Black, who has accepted a new position as the CPD Accreditation Manager at The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC). In her role here, she advised directors of continuing education and faculty members in the design, planning, development, accreditation and evaluation of specific […]

Notes from Ethiopia

CEPD’s Director of Global and Indigenous Health, Dr. Anna Banerji, visited Ethiopia this month as part of a University of Toronto needs assessment venture. Here she shares her experience visiting with Continuing Education (CE) in mind. “I had the pleasure of accompanying Dr. Claire Pain, five psychiatrists, and one psychiatry resident for a needs assessment […]

Innovative Programing in the Spotlight

CEPD is gaining national and international recognition for its innovative programing. Medical Record-Keeping, Safe Opioid Prescribing, and Practice Skills in Primary Care are three series of courses that have been developed in-house and are achieving prominence. Medical Record-Keeping is a one-day interactive workshop that is recognized by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario […]

CPD Director of Research to present at University of Leicester

CEPD Director of Research, Dr. Simon Kitto will be presenting today, Monday, September 16th, at the University of Leicester (UofL), UK in a workshop that is bringing together all UofL Interprofessional Education (IPE) leads. “I’m pleased to be presenting at such a reputable institution,” Dr. Kitto says. “I will be emphasising the importance of theoretically […]

Call for Nominations – Continuing Education Research and Development Internal Grants

CEPD is now gathering nominations for the Fall 2013 Continuing Education Research and Development Internal Grants. Since 1997, these grants have been offered three times per year to support projects (up to $5,000.00) that relate to the planning, implementation, delivery and evaluation of continuing education for healthcare professionals. For example, needs assessment and methods of […]

Getting started with your first CEPD Event: Obtaining Credits

CEPD events start with great ideas and enthusiastic faculty. But every great idea needs to be reviewed to ensure educational integrity and to ensure that participants are eligible for credits for the time they spend learning. That is part of what happens during the process called Accreditation. Accreditation is one of the important first steps […]

Inspiring an Academic Business Plan – The Building Blocks We’ve Used

Since starting my time here as Vice Dean, I have furthered CEPD’s business development and have developed an annual formal academic business plan. Two long-term goals of these plans are to foster growth and to increase engagement with all departments in the Faculty of Medicine. A book I found at a Harvard bookstore called Business Model […]

CEPD Research Team Members to Present at AMEE Conference

Director of CEPD Research, Dr. Simon Kitto (@DrSimonKitto), and Research Associate and graduate student Joanne Goldman, will be involved in the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) conference this week in Prague, Czech Republic. Dr. Kitto will be a part of a pre-conference workshop on Sunday, August 25th entitled “Using theory in medical education […]

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CEPD Research is Growing!

Building on strategic directions to advance research, innovation and scholarship in Continuing Education, foster and imbed quality improvement (QI) and further develop Continuing Interprofessional Education (CIPE), CEPD’s Research division has embarked on a rapid expansion. Led by Director, Dr. Simon Kitto, CEPD Research has recruited five new members over the past academic year. Please join […]