Bridging Leaders Program – Winter 2025
Jan 14, 2025 to Apr 1, 2025
12:00AM to 11:59PM
*Please refer below for agenda timing.
This program has been co-developed by the McMaster Program for Faculty Development and the McMaster Department of Medicine.
The ability to bridge between worlds as a leader is a must-have skill but one that needs to be operationalized. For example, leaders in Canadian academic health sciences centres (AHSCs) are often invested in the university or hospital/health systems side. Rarely are the two worlds well bridged, and as a result, there is a growing divide between the academics and the hospital administrators of our AHSCs. The solutions for most problems, however, often require both parties within the leadership of the AHSCs to have a deep empathy and understanding of each others’ priorities and interests.
We hope this program can allow leaders who hold dual citizenship roles (e.g. teacher and researcher, hospital leader and academic faculty, clinician and scientist, or others) to work on reconciling their two sides and find ways to seek win-win solutions for all involved collaboratively. By participating in this program, we hope to help participants set the foundation to effectively lead in their academic, research, and clinical leadership roles.
Applications are due November 29, 2024, for the Winter 2025 cohort.
You may apply now for future iterations in advance and receive a notification for future cohorts.
Main Learning Sessions
- January 14, 2025 – Overview to BLP, Leads Self, and Welcome Dinner (in-person: 2:00 to 7:00 p.m.)
- February 4, 2025 – Engages Others (virtual: 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.)
- February 25, 2025 – Achieves Results (virtual: 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.)
- March 18, 2025 – Develops Coalitions (virtual: 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.)
- April 1, 2025 – Systems Change and Wrap-up (in-person: 2:00 to 7:00 p.m.)
Additional Small Group Project Time will be asked of the team in the morning or afternoon on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.
Program Content
The following is a listing of the program content that participants will engage in during the Bridging Leaders Program.
Each module is comprised of two parts:
- Synchronous kick-off workshop (virtual and in-person synchronous kick-off sessions).
- Asynchronous discussion and small group tasks after each kick-off.
Each individual will also be paired with an executive coach and will participate in a total of 2 coaching sessions. This coach’s job will be to help you unlock your leadership potential or wrestle with current leadership dilemmas.
Accreditation Statements
McMaster University, Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is fully accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Continuing Medical Education (CACME) to provide CFPC Mainpro+ and RCPSC Maintenance of Certification (MOC) study credits for Continuing Medical Education.
This one-credit-per-hour Group-Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by McMaster University, Continuing Professional Development for up to 19 Mainpro+ credits.
This activity is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by McMaster University, Continuing Professional Development. You may claim a maximum of 19 MOC Section 1 hours (credits are automatically calculated.)
Through an agreement between the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert Royal College MOC credits to AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Information on the process to convert Royal College MOC credit to AMA credit can be found at https://edhub.ama-assn.org/pages/about-ama-education.
Each attendee should only claim the hours they attended.