2024-2027 – Stepping Stones: A Foundational Faculty Development Program

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Note: The CFD Faculty Development Workshops Series 2024-2025 and the Journal Club 2024-2025 are being submitted for accreditation as components of this Certificate program. The two applications for the components will include requests for Royal College and CFPC accreditation. The Stepping Stones Certificate will be reviewed as a certificate of completion (minimum 39 hours) only.

Stepping Stones is a one to three year foundational faculty development program offered by the Centre for Faculty Development (CFD). The goals of the program are: to promote growth and development of individuals in relation to their educational activities as teachers, educators, leaders, scholars, and advocates; and to provide opportunities for networking and collaboration across caring and learning environments.
Stepping Stones consists of integrated workshop and Journal Club components. Participants are required to attend 8 Journal Club sessions, complete two assignments and attend a total of 26 hours of workshops.

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Concurrent Disorders Certificate Program

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The Concurrent Disorders Certificate Program is designed to help participants gain skills and knowledge to better identify, assess and provide treatment to people with concurrent disorders. This program requires the completion of a core course as well as two electives, plus a two-part learning goal and reflection assignment. All of the courses are offered online. To receive a certificate of completion, learners must:
– complete a core course and two elective courses within four years
– complete a two-part learning goal and reflection activity
– submit a written request to graduate, listing the courses completed toward completion of the certificate

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2024- Medical Psychiatry Collaborative Care Certificate

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The Medical Psychiatry Collaborative Care Certificate (MP3C) is a continuing professional development program designed to build integrated mental and physical health and collaborative care capacity of inter-professional care providers. Participants attend online and in-person, interprofessional environments that are didactic and vary in length between three to seven hours. The team-based case studies following the self-study and classroom learning are designed to foster deeper generative processing and learning on the subject and how to create coordinated care plans across various disciplines in a collaborative care team. The sessions introduce practical and accessible assessment tools and demonstrate how to use these tools to identify and/or manage co-morbidities in physical and mental health.
* CPD Accreditation Note: This application is being submitted as a 39 hour Certificate of Completion. Program is comprised of the following 3 components, each is being reviewed for Royal College and CFPC credits.
Foundational Skills Course (has been submitted)
MP3C Summative Skills (Capstone Project) (to be submitted)
Practice Improvement Workshops (has been submitted)

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2025 Immigrant and Refugee Mental Health Project Leadership Course

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This course is for leaders who are committed to understanding immigrant and refugee mental health and who lead staff working with immigrants and refugees in Canada. This includes organizations in the health, settlement, social service sectors. The leadership course will improve leader’s knowledge about the support required for immigrants and refugees. It is designed to help leaders understand the mental health needs of immigrants and refugees in order to develop appropriate policies, increase their knowledge on what is required to create a supportive environment for staff so they can promote the mental health of immigrants and refugees and introduce organizational strategies that support and improve the mental health of immigrants and refugees.

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Certificate Program in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement 2025-2026

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The proposed program will teach concepts of patient safety and quality improvement using didactic and interactive sessions followed by an evaluative presentation of a project. It will cover topics such as : 1) Model for Improvement 2) Core definitions and epidemiology in patient safety 3) Approaches to measuring healthcare quality and performance 4) Methods for assessing quality and safety problems 5) Unique methods in patient safety ( human factors engineering, event analysis) 6) QI methods : Run Charts and Control charts 7) QI methods in safety and quality 8) Leading change and stakeholder engagement 9) Topics of special interest to safety and quality ( communication, safety culture, teamwork, resource stewardship, health informatics, patient engagement) 10) Equity in QI

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Advanced Training Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

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This 3 year program included 60
weekly three-hour seminars over two
years, which focused on both
theoretical knowledge and clinical
skills.
Trainees were required to treat two
adults in long-term psychoanalytic
psychotherapy and complete 100
hours of supervision from two
psychoanalytic therapists.
Methods of evaluation included
demonstration of specific skills in
supervision, written case reports,
clinical presentations and independent
assessor reports.

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The Excellence in Quality Improvement EQUIP Academic Certificate Program

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The EQUIP program uses a mix of didactic and interactive small group sessions to address the specific learning needs of faculty members working in academic settings (i.e., academic medical centers, teaching hospitals, ambulatory teaching clinics, and other related clinical learning environments) by training them to be academic QI faculty champions and help academic departments / universities address the pressing need to develop capacity in QI.

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Pediatric Emergency Medicine Point-of-Care Ultrasound Workshop 2025

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This one-day pre-conference workshop is designed to introduce and reinforce core point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) applications relevant to the care of pediatric patients across diverse clinical settings. It is intended for pediatric emergency physicians, general pediatricians, family medicine physicians, hospitalists, trainees, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other allied health professionals who care for children and have novice to intermediate ultrasound experience.

The program integrates didactic and hands-on components, covering core POCUS applications including knobology, lung, cardiac, inferior vena cava (IVC), soft tissue, renal and bladder, rectal diameter measurement, and ultrasound-guided vascular access. Clinical integration is emphasized through case-based discussions for each application.

Participants will rotate through expert-led, small-group hands-on stations designed to maximize scanning time and individualized feedback. Simulation models, volunteer scanning, and image interpretation exercises will be incorporated. A session on documentation and billing practices relevant to the Ontario context is also included.

Pre- and post-workshop learning materials, including open-access modules and reference handouts, will be provided to support longitudinal skill development.

This workshop aligns with competency-based education principles and is designed to facilitate the safe, practical integration of pediatric POCUS across community and hospital-based practice environments

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Paediatric Project ECHO Series – Year 9

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The Paediatric Project ECHO program is a regularly scheduled series that includes teleECHO sessions and Core Competency webinars. It includes 4 specialty series: Obesity Management, Complex Care, Palliative Care, and Pain Management. It will have monthly sessions (per specialty) that are 60-90 minutes in length via videoconferencing. TeleECHO sessions will consist of two components: a didactic presentation and case-based learning. The didactic presentation is given by specialists in paediatric obesity management, complex care, pain, and palliative care. This presentation will focus on a different topic each session and include as the presenter will ask participants questions throughout. There will be an opportunity for discussion and clarifying questions following the presentation. The second part of the session will be case-based learning, where health care providers will present a de-identified patient case study. During the case presentation, the presenter will have questions for the community to help work through medical management. All attendees are invited to participate by asking clarifying questions and making recommendations on case management. All ECHO sessions are free for participants, without a minimum or maximum requirement for attendance. Core Competency sessions will feature longer didactic presentations focusing on fundamentals, with no formal patient case presentation.

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Teaching and Learning in the Clinical Context Program (TLC)

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Teaching and Learning in the Clinical Context (TLC) is a 12-week virtual program with both self-paced, interactive eLearning modules as well asfacilitated group learning sessions.
The goals of the program are for participants to:
1. Develop the foundational knowledge and skills needed to teach in the clinical context.
2. Recognize how to be adaptive clinical teachers, responsive to unique contextual and learner needs.
The program is practical and evidence-informed, enabling clinicians to successfully teach and prepare our learners for the current and future healthcare climate.
Topics Covered in the Modules Include (but are not limited to):
Identity as a clinical teacher
The teaching and learning environment
Power and the teacher-learner partnership
Critical reflection
Identifying learner needs and setting objectives
Educational approaches
Giving and receiving feedback
The learner in difficulty
Learner mistreatment
The development and delivery of the program are underpinned by an anti-oppression lens. The program is also anchored by the locally developed Faculty Developer Competence Model.