Faculty Professional Development Day

The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Faculty Professional Development Day is a half-day event every November which explores a number of topics relevant to faculty academic roles and career development. Topics covered include self-regulated learning, reflective practice, competency-based medical education, feedback, senior promotion, assessing research productivity, optimizing undergraduate teaching effectiveness, and undergraduate medical education innovation.
This year's event continues to focus on our department’s ability to educate the next generation to provide exceptional care for women and trans people amidst an evolving pandemic and subsequent societal shifts. This includes our education as faculty members as well as support on how to then model those skills, attitudes, and behaviours for the next generation of women’s health care providers.
Learning Objectives
Following this faculty professional development day, participants will be better able to:
- Implement a framework to manage stress during the pandemic and develop ways to support one another in the workplace moving forward
- Describe and establish the expectation for faculty of medicine’s professional values with wellness, physiological and cultural safety and organizational justice
- Run and participate in effective M and M rounds to identify act upon issues to improve patient safety
- Describe a strategy for determining an area of excellence for promotion after the three-year review
- Use specific techniques for effective communication with learners in difficulty
- Communicate and collaborate with colleagues and learning in healthcare delivery, and model those techniques for learners.
- Use and promote gender Inclusive Language in manuscripts/publications and grant applications
This year's schedule will include:
Time |
Agenda |
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9:00 - 9:05 |
Welcome and Introduction |
9:05 - 11:00 |
Wellness Workshop Speaker: Mamta Gautam, Psychiatrist, physician wellness expert, certified coach |
11:00 - 11:50 |
Plenary Session |
11:50 - 12:00 |
Break |
12:00 - 1:15 |
Small Group Session 1 Topic: Effective M&M Rounds Topic: Promotion choosing area of excellence after three-year review Topic: Teaching Communication Skills to Learners in OBGYN Topic: Effective Communication With the Learner in Difficulty Topic: Words Do Matter: Promoting Gender Inclusive Language in Clinical and Research Practices |
1:15 - 1:25 |
Break |
1:25 - 2:40 |
Small Group Session 2 All five presentations from Small Group Session 1 be repeated in Session 2 to give faculty members the opportunity to attend two out of five sessions. |
2:40 - 2:45 |
Break |
2:45 - 3:30 |
Awards Ceremony |
Past Faculty Professional Development Days
Information on previous Faculty Professional Development Days can be found below:
- Faculty Professional Development Day 2020
- Faculty Professional Development Day 2019
- Faculty Professional Development Day 2018
- Faculty Professional Development Day 2017
- Faculty Professional Development Day 2016
- Faculty Professional Development Day 2015
- Faculty Professional Development Day 2014
- Faculty Professional Development Day 2013
- Faculty Professional Development Day 2012 & Alumni 125th Year Celebration
- Faculty Professional Development Day 2011 & Award Recipients
- Faculty Professional Development Day 2010 & Award Recipients