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Structured Emergency Event Debriefing (SEED)

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High-acuity events in emergency departments can overwhelm individual providers, eroding team performance and clinician well-being. Further, unaddressed stress leads to emotional exhaustion and burnout. Structured Emergency Event Debriefing (SEED) equips medical faculty as well as other ED team members with an evidence-based framework to debrief after critical incidents with the intention of supporting colleagues while simultaneously strengthening systems. Participants explore three linked, nested approaches—Post-Resuscitation Pause (PRP), Same-Shift Support (SSS), and Post-Event Evaluation and Reflection (PEER)— and will leave with experience guiding brief, psychologically safe conversations that connect emotion and resuscitation process, and transform potentially difficult experiences into ones the improve department performance and provider wellbeing.

This four-hour, highly interactive workshop blends short didactic segments with small-group role-play, guided reflection, and peer feedback. Participants sequentially practise each SEED method, mirroring the clinical progression from “hot” to “cold” debriefing. Faculty model trauma-informed communication and structured listening while participants build confidence facilitating concise, inclusive discussions. The session concludes with planning for local implementation and evaluation, ensuring sustained integration of SEED into departmental routines to enhance morale, retention, and quality of care.

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10th International Congress on Bone Conduction Hearing and Related Technologies

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Knowledge Translation Professional Certificate 2026

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The Knowledge Translation Professional Certificate (KTPC™) is a 39-hour professional development program. This program aims to develop the competencies of KT professionals (knowledge brokers, KT specialists, KT program managers, etc.) working across all disciplines and sectors. KTPC includes numerous opportunities for networking both during and after the course, a KT game to build knowledge of integrated and end-of-grant KT practices and considerations, and time to build a practical KT plan with the support of the faculty and peers.

The course culminates in the presentation of participant’s KT plans for the purposes of receiving feedback and supporting further development of KT skills. KTPC also invites active participation by participant supervisors to help build organizational capacity for KT and support sustained learning. The course will be offered three times in 2026: once in person (five days) and twice online (seven days synchronously on Zoom).

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Online Opioid Self-Assessment Program

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We are offering an Online Opioid Self-Assessment Program (SAP) to help participants identify areas where improvement is required. This program’s target population is physicians, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, medical educators, medical students, and medical residents. The ultimate goal is to close the gap between knowledge and action with regard to the use of opioids for chronic non-cancer pain. The 2017 Canadian Opioid Guideline recommendations were developed to help physicians make appropriate decisions to start a trial of opioid therapy for CNCP and to guide them in the monitoring of long-term opioid therapy, the detection of situations involving misuse, including addiction, and the appropriate response to such situations. The Guideline was updated in 2025 and the content of the educational program has been modified based on the 2025 Canadian Opioid Guideline. The instructional design of the program is knowledge-based. There will be case-based learning (e.g., vignettes and discussions), question-and-answer periods, and Self-assessment questions throughout the course.

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Black Health Primer

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The Black Health Primer (BHP) is a series of 8 multi-module (including introduction and conclusion) online course on Black health and anti-Black racism in the Canadian healthcare system. It was created in response to gaps in education and training on Black health and anti-Black racism in medicine.

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Chronic Pain Care for Indigenous Patients – Asynchronous Online Learning Module

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“Chronic Pain Care for Indigenous Patients” is an online asynchronous learning course intended to educate physicians on the provision of culturally-safer, trauma-informed chronic pain care for Indigenous Peoples in Canada. The course is organized into four section that cover the following content:
1) an overview of the historical and ongoing colonial policies and practices in Canada that impact the health of Indigenous Peoples and their experiences when accessing the healthcare system;
2) an introduction to chronic pain and approaches to pain care based on Western medical and Indigenous perspectives, including a patient-centred examination of the barriers that Indigenous patients face in accessing chronic pain care;
3) recommendations for providing high quality culturally-safer care to Indigenous individuals with chronic pain;
4) guidance for accessing supports when caring for Indigenous patients and resources for further learning.

The course incorporates interactive self-guided components throughout the content slides and includes opportunities to reinforce learning in the form of embedded case examples, reflection questions, and quizzes. Learners also have an opportunity to ask the course facilitator questions that are moderated and displayed, along with facilitator responses, on the learning platform.

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The 6th Annual Canadian Children, Youth and Communities (CCYC) Health In | Equity Conference

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Vernissage Health Program 2026

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Dialogue, along with mentorship, can be a powerful catalyst for
transformative learning experience for physicians who are assuming
leadership roles in health care. This is the central idea behind an DLSPH
Continuing Education offering called Vernissage Health™, a forum for
contemporary leadership development of emerging physician leaders in
health care.Vernissage Health™ brings together two leadership groups in a
small group environment for dialogue about leadership: alumni from DLSPH
embarking on careers in health leadership (emerging leaders) and
mid to late career leaders with established, successful leadership careers
across broad sectors in health (established leaders). The scope of
established leaders will include leaders from the private and public sectors –
consultants, public health agencies, hospitals, community care organizations,
advocacy and professional associations, and government. The offering includes a leadership
self assessment(Leadership Practice Inventory, EI and Character Strengths)
followed by a series of dialogue sessions, along with 1:1 mentorship coaching
sessions. Together, these offerings provide a unique opportunity for emerging
physician leaders to self-assess their leadership skills, share leadership experiences, and exchange
evidenced based concepts and ideas about leadership. Ultimately, this unique
experience will help impact and develop early career physician leaders who
can successfully navigate their careers and create positive change within
Canada’s health system.

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