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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. This program is accredited by Queen’s for 15 learning hours for the Royal College and CFPC credit systems and endorsed for all other health professions.
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: $325 CAD for 1 year of access
Please note: this course is hosted in Health Sci Ed Connect. You will need to setup a new account in this system, separate from your CPD Program Centre account.
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Leslie Flynn, MD, MEd
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Kim Sears, RN, PhD
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Denise Stockley, PhD
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Eleftherios Soleas, PhD
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.
On successful completion of Module 02, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Please note: this course is hosted in Health Sci Ed Connect. You will need to setup a new account in this system, separate from your CPD Program Centre account.