ICRE Program Information

Share your Program Director Survival Stories at ICRE 2019

Are you a program director with an interesting story to share about surviving and thriving through challenging experiences or best practices learned? What supports did you have/access? Does your experience lend itself to a unique learning opportunity for fellow program director? If so, we want to hear from you!

The ICRE 2019 planning committee is currently looking for participants to lead a practical discussion during this year’s Program Director Survival Stories panel session, which will highlight both the challenges and triumphs experienced by Program Directors.

The session will serve as an opportunity to share best practices and hear examples of successful navigation in the area of Diversity - Training residents in a world of differences: How it affects Program Directors

Deadline for submissions is June 14, 2019.

Candidates with stand-out stories will be invited to Ottawa to serve as panelists during the September 26-28 conference.

Click here for more information, and to access the submission site.

International Conference on Faculty Development in the Health Professions (IFDC)

Monday, September 23, 2019– Wednesday, September 25, 2019
0800-1700
Fee: $750

This conference brings together international faculty development leaders and educators in the health sciences to share best practices and current research in faculty development and to foster a global community of leaders and educators in the field. This year’s theme is Creating Connections: Exploring Faculty Development through Different Lenses.

Click here to learn more about this exciting pre-conference event.

Canadian Conference for the Advancement of Surgical Education (C-CASE)

The inaugural Canadian Conference for the Advancement of Surgical Education (C-CASE) will be held on September 25th and 26th, 2019 at the University of Ottawa (Alumni Auditorium on Main Campus).

Organized by the Canadian Undergraduate Surgical Education Committee, this two day conference will feature: plenary sessions, guest speakers, panels and scientific sessions as well as a banquet at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum (Sept 25th). All is included in your registration.

Click here to learn more about the conference and register.

Symposium: CBD and brie: Implementation lessons learned over wine and cheese

Friday, September 27, 2019
1730-1900

Competence by Design (CBD) is the Royal College’s flagship specialty CBME program. To date about twenty disciplines have launched CBD, dozens more are in the midst of preparing to launch and others are about to begin their CBD journey. While we may not have reached a tipping point yet, at this stage of implementation there is a great deal of lived experience yielding a lot of positive results and lessons learned. Join us for this highly interactive, semi-structured session for sharing stories of progress and lessons learned in order to optimize readiness building to enable more widespread adoption of CBD. This session will feature early adopter CBD program leaders - faculty, residents and program administrators - who will share lessons learned from their CBD implementation experiences.

KeyLIME Live @ ICRE

Friday, September 27, 2019
1200-1330
*Lunch included
Fee: $25

On Friday, September 27, the Four KeyLIME (Key Literature in Medical Education) co-hosts (Drs. Jason Frank, Linda Snell, Lara Varpio and Jonathan Sherbino) will discuss the key points of the medical education articles they’ve selected for this live session. Articles that are important, innovative, or that will impact your educational practice will be discussed. The co-hosts encourage audience participation and questions!

The audio from this live session will be recorded and integrated into the weekly KeyLIME podcast schedule, produced by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

This session is designed for clinician educators, medical education scholars, medical teachers and trainees with an interest in up-to-date, new, and important literature in medical education. After listening to the podcasts, listeners will be able to: keep up to date on current literature in medical education; discuss research methodologies used; and apply the issues discussed to their own context and daily education practice.

For questions, please contact the KeyLIME Secretariat at keylime@royalcollege.ca.

*As seating is limited for this event, pre-registration and a nominal fee of $25.00 is required. Lunch will be provided.

Articles to be discussed are to be determined.

“I Have an Idea – I’m Just Not Sure If It’s a Good Idea”: How to Make a Meaningful Contribution to Education Research

Sunday, September 29, 2019
0800-1300 (The Westin Ottawa)
Fee: $450

Have you found yourself wondering how to get started with education research? Many of us in education roles recognize the challenges that our work presents, and feel motivated to develop research ideas that arise from those challenges. While some of the problems we encounter in education work simply require solutions, others cry out for creative exploration. We can stumble, however, when it comes to determining which is which. How do we decide which ideas deserve our scholarly attention? And once we have decided, how to we bring those ideas to fruition?

Led by dynamic and renowned Clinician Educators, ICE Summit will push you to think deeply about the most controversial and provocative elements of MedEd – our speakers aren’t presenters, they are provocateurs! [pruh-vok-uh-tur, noun; a person who deliberately behaves controversially in order to provoke argument or other strong reactions.]

In this one-day post-conference workshop, Lorelei Lingard and Chris Watling will lead participants through a series of activities that will allow them to zero in on those ideas with the most potential to generate novel and compelling research, to craft research questions that will resonate with a wide audience, and to lay the groundwork for a successful research study. Key elements will include:

1. Moving from a topic of interest to a problem that demands research
2. Surveying existing literature to map the space your work will occupy
3. Proactively articulating the “so what” of your research project
4. Engaging in thoughtful planning to ensure methodological rigour
5. Strategizing about effectively sharing your scholarship

This workshop will offer both novice and experienced researchers new strategies for choosing strong ideas and for developing those ideas into meaningful contributions to the education literature.

Strategies for Designing & Implementing Your Competency-based Medical Education Program: An Introductory Workshop

Sunday, September 29, 2019
0800-1500 (The Westin Ottawa)
Fee: $450

This workshop is an introductory workshop designed for those who are thinking about or are in the early stages of adopting CBME into their context. It is designed to provide a brief introduction to key concepts, and practices, provide participants with an opportunity to apply the concepts and practices to their context and to plan what they need to do when they go home. The workshop will be accompanied by a workbook with exercises and key references so that participants can continue the work when they return home. The recently published Core Components Framework will be used as an ongoing organizer.

Objectives:

• Describe a rationale for adopting CBME to your peers
• Define key terms
• Identify initial strategies for implementing CBME in your context

Using the core components framework, employ a step-wise approach to ongoing implementation

Workshop for New Program Directors

Thursday, September 26, 2019
0800-1530 (The Westin Ottawa); by invitation only
No fee

This workshop will provide participants with educational concepts, practical hints and guidelines to orient and support them in assuming the responsibilities of their role as new program directors. Participants will have the opportunity to attend various interactive workshops to improve their knowledge of Royal College policies and processes, and experience personal development in their role as program directors. For more information, please contact pdworkshop@royalcollege.ca.