Introduction to Health Professions Education

Take the next step in your healthcare education career, whether transitioning to academia, or equipping yourself to be a better educator in the clinic.

This 12-module certificate program introduces you to Health Professions Education, a specific branch of adult education that integrates an interprofessional collaborative practice lens, with inclusive instructional design, constructive alignment practices, and deep learning engagement practice.

Designed specifically for an online audience, this on-demand professional development program equips you to make a difference for your learners, colleagues, and organizations.

Any health professional or trainee looking to expand their capacities and skills as an educator, mentor, or coach for peers and trainees would benefit from this professional development program. You will benefit if you are currently holding or entering into a health professions education position.

Fee: $195 CAD per learner

This online program is accredited by Queen’s University for 15 Self-Assessment learning hours for the Royal College, 15 Mainpro+ Credits in the Self-Learning Category for the CFPC, and provides a certificate for 15 hours of professional development for all health professions.

Sneak peek of Introduction to Health Professions Education

Introduction to Health Professions Education

On successful completion of Module 01, learners will be able to:

Discuss the value in completing this Health Professions Education Certificate and how you can leverage the learnings in your teaching career.
Interpret the Teaching Perspectives Inventory profile.
Apply what you have learned about your own teaching approach to your educational practice.

Lifelong Learning – Principles of Adult Learning

On successful completion of Module 02, learners will be able to:

Integrate principles of adult learning into practices for teaching, learning, and engagement with peers within a community of learning.
Apply principles of teaching to a variety of educational contexts by setting learning goals and aligning assessment practices with the desired outcome.
Integrate principles of adult learning to support others in developing knowledge and skills in the context of health professions education.

Educational Theories and Teaching Environments

On successful completion of Module 03, learners will be able to:

Situate learners within the field of health education as both a discipline of knowledge and a field of practice.
Adopt a learning-centred approach to teaching in health education.
Engage with active learning techniques focusing on collaboration and sharing.
Employ a critical approach to teaching by reflecting upon different effective teaching practices.
Develop a scholarly approach to teaching in health education.

Introduction to Curriculum

On successful completion of Module 04, learners will be able to:

Articulate the purpose and importance of curriculum.
Explore ways to conceptualize curriculum in health professions education.
Describe different types of curricula: formal, hidden, integrated.

Teaching Philosophies

On successful completion of Module 05, learners will be able to:

Situate learners within the field of health education as both a discipline of knowledge and a field of practice.
Adopt a learning-centred approach to teaching in health education.
Engage with active learning techniques focusing on collaboration and sharing.
Adopt a critical approach to teaching by reflecting upon different effective teaching practices.
Develop and establish a scholarly approach to teaching in health education.

Collaboration, Collaborative Leadership, and Communication in HPE

On successful completion of Module 06, learners will be able to:

Identify research, theory, and current evidence on collaborative practice.
Discuss current trends in collaborative practice research and how they impact the teaching of health professions learner.
Expand your awareness of the challenges and opportunities of communication strategies in collaborative teams.
Apply communication strategies to facilitate optimal discussions in collaborative teams.
Make and discuss the connections between adult learning principles and effective collaborative practice.
Articulate how professionals, community members, and patients interact in collaborative teams.
Leverage opportunities for formal and informal leadership in your personal and professional lives.

Course Delivery and Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of Module 07, learners will be able to:

Align the methods of course delivery with the desired outcomes of learning.
Select the most appropriate methods for delivery of learning.
Select the most appropriate methods of assessment for reinforcing learning in interprofessional classes.

Lesson Planning and Conflict Management

On successful completion of Module 08, learners will be able to:

Design lesson plans that intentionally make collaborative practice more likely.
Develop customized approaches for lesson planning based on the topics you might be tasked in teaching.
Identify the impacts of power dynamics in health professions teaching and learning.
Discuss approaches for building bridges between professions as a means of stoking collaborative practice.

Culturally Safe Health Care

On successful completion of Module 09, learners will be able to:

Compare differential access to health care across different types of health care practices, and describe how this can affect health care outcomes.
Describe wholistic models of health, and compare them to the Euro-Canadian biomedical model.
Explore definitions of culturally safe health care and identify ways to incorporate culturally safe care into your own practices.
Review and critique government and public health policies related to culturally safe health care.

Indigenous Peoples History

On successful completion of Module 10, learners will be able to:

Discuss the history and diversity of Indigenous Peoples in Canada.
Recognize the impacts of colonialism and Indian hospitals on Indigenous perceptions of Western healthcare.
Identify the importance of traditional medicines and how this information could be incorporated into health professions education.
Reflect on the impact of intergenerational trauma on Indigenous populations and consider how you could apply this knowledge when you deliver or teach about culturally safe care.
Explain the relevance of the TRC to healthcare and healthcare education, in order to facilitate and advocate for change within your practice.

How to Decolonize the Classroom

On successful completion of Module 11, learners will be able to:

Identify and incorporate Indigenous ways of knowing within the classroom learning space.
Identify and model Indigenous cultural safety within the clinical learning setting.

Learning from International Perspectives

On successful completion of Module 12, learners will be able to:

Identify how education and health care systems in other parts of the world, such as Australia, New Zealand, South America, and Africa, have collaborated with marginalized communities to enhance cultural safety in health care, health care education, and health care research.
Explore the elements of successfully decolonized programs/interventions in Canada.

This professional development program would benefit any health professional or trainee looking to expand their capacities and skills as an educator, mentor, or coach for peers and trainees.

Introduction to Health Professions Education

Take the next step in your healthcare education career, whether transitioning to academia, or equipping yourself to be a better educator in the clinic.

Fee: $325 Now $195 CAD per learner

Sneak peek of Introduction to Health Professions Education

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Module Details

Introduction to Health Professions Education

Lifelong Learning – Principles of Adult Learning

Educational Theories and Teaching Environments

Introduction to Curriculum

Teaching Philosophies

Collaboration, Collaborative Leadership, and Communication in HPE

Course Delivery and Learning Outcomes

Lesson Planning and Conflict Management

Culturally Safe Health Care

Indigenous Peoples History

How to Decolonize the Classroom

Learning from International Perspectives

This professional development program would benefit any health professional or trainee looking to expand their capacities and skills as an educator, mentor, or coach for peers and trainees.