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Session 2 – A virtual interactive workshop – Transgender Rights Details

• Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2024
• Time: 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. *Time is subject to change
• Delivery: Virtual

The Creating Brave Spaces 2024 Spring Series is produced in partnership with the FHS Office of Equity and Inclusion.

The lead facilitators and standardized actors are supported by the McMaster Gender and Health Grant.

The project benefits from collaboration with and support from the Department of Family Medicine, the MERIT community, the Waterloo Regional Campus, the Midwifery Graduate Program, the Centre for Simulation-Based Learning and the Office of Continuing Professional Development.

Target Audience

Health professions faculty members and staff members at the Faculty of Health Sciences.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this learning activity, the learners will be able to:

• Define and identify microaggressions.
• Identify commonly offered “bad faith” or “straw man” arguments.
• Gain one technique in disarming microaggresssions.

Agenda

This two-hour session will begin with an introduction to foundational concepts, followed by simulated interactions with standardized actors. Participants will have the opportunity to practice skills in disarming a microaggression.

Registration Fee

There is no registration fee for this workshop.

Lead Facilitators

Lisa Jeffs (Any Pronoun)
Senior Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Consultant
People, Culture and Diversity

Oliver (Ollie) Thorne, BA, MA (They/Them)
Research Coordinator, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Partner Facilitators

Hannah Jordan, Sandra Monteiro, and X. Catherine Tong.

Accreditation Statements

McMaster University, Continuing Professional Development Program (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 the McMaster University Continuing Professional Development Program for up to 2 Mainpro+ credits per session (6 credits in total for 3 sessions).

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 Program. You may claim a maximum of 2 MOC Section 1 hours per session (6 credits in total for 3 sessions) (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.