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The Learning Environment: COVID-19

With the recent changes in the way we have to teach within the age of COVID-19, we’ve curated some interesting content to help you develop your online teaching skills.

How Health Professions Education Goes Virtual: A Mini Series

Digital Connection Tool Overviews

Clinical Learning Environment

The clinical learning environment can often be at the mercy of external pressures. Here are some resources that might be useful to you:

Classroom Learning Environments

Classroom teaching can be a challenge – engagement can be tricky. Check out some resource bundles we’ve created below:

As a faculty development person, you need development too! In this section we will be providing some useful links to faculty development resources that you might enjoy. These have been created or curated by Dr. Chan to help you with your development journey.

ALiEM Medic Series

  • ALiEM MEdIC Series (aliem.com/medic) was created by Dr. Chan and a team of educators.

  • It features a series of nearly 50 cases that face clinical faculty commonly. They are written for an emergency medicine crowd (that’s the website it’s hosted on), but the cases should resonate with many groups.

  • Each case has objectives, guided questions, and expert commentaries you can use to scaffold your debriefing. It also has a Curated Commentary based on online discussions that emerged when the case first launched – to help you anticipate what other faculty might see and hear.

AMEE Conference

  •  Dr. Chan was invited to speak at the 2020 AMEE conference (Click here to view video). She collaborated with 4 other amazing faculty developers from around the world to present this plenary session.

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Health professions education research includes experimental, applied and practice-based research.  In fact, education research may be better described as education scholarship, “an umbrella term that can encompass … the many facets of education research, as well as the design, implementation and evaluation of educational innovations.”(Van Melle, 2014)

HPER introduces key ideas and processes in education scholarship.  As academic health professionals, we are committed to advancing our field. If you are new to the health professions or new to education scholarship, this course provides a systematic, structured approach for you to consider before turning your big idea into scholarship.

Start the Modules Now!

We know mentorship can be hard to get right. Even the most talented individuals may find it useful to have a resource that can inspire action both on the part of the mentee and mentor. We hope that this resource will serve as an “inspiration book” for everyone – from the more novice of new faculty members to the seasoned academic mentor.

In this 93-page book, there are 3 sections:
1) Academics,
2) Clinical, and
3) Life

Each section is populated by curated links to key resources and de novo activity books that you can complete with your mentees or mentors!

Now on sale through the McMaster Campus Bookstore as our first ePublication. Buy it here!