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The Faculty Development Essentials Library offers resources presented in multi-modal formats to meet the needs of today’s faculty members. This library provides a catalogue of just-in-time teaching support that focuses on student success, retention, access, course completion, and progression while at the same time offering flexibility and interactivity. Additionally, a number of the courses are accredited to help meet your Continuing Professional Development needs.

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EDIIA
EDIIA

Access modules, sessions, and resources related to Equity, Diversity, Indigeneity, Inclusion, & Accessibility (EDIIA) that are currently available across Queen's University.

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Effective Feedback - A Faculty Guide
Effective Feedback - A Faculty Guide

Feedback is an essential component of education and – if carried out effectively –it stimulates learners to develop their knowledge, competencies, and performance. This guide will look at the principles and models of effective feedback, and how to implement it in a clinical setting.

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Elentra Essentials for Clinical Educators
Elentra Essentials for Clinical Educators

This module will identify how to access Elentra a community preceptor and where to find additional Elentra support.

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The Flipped Classroom: How To Do It Well
The Flipped Classroom: How To Do It Well

This module will define and outline the steps of the flipped classroom approach, as well as determine how the flipped classroom approach may be applied to different teaching contexts.

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Islam 101
Islam 101

Normalizing doesn’t mean showing that our lifestyle is the same as everyone else’s but, rather, realizing that these differences in our lifestyles are normal. And perhaps with this glimpse into our faith and lives, you may gain more understanding.

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Learners in Difficulty - A Faculty Guide
Learners in Difficulty - A Faculty Guide

Although most learners complete their education without significant difficulties, 10–15% experience some challenges during their program. Learner difficulties can have a huge impact at various levels in healthcare education.  (Lacasse, 2019).

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Patient Perspectives
Patient Perspectives

This module focusses on the role of the patient/client/family/community in the healthcare setting and importance of the patient/client/family community perspective in the healthcare team.

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Teaching & Learning in Higher Education
Teaching & Learning in Higher Education

Six modules that center on key concepts in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education have been collaboratively developed by Queen’s University, Western University and University of Waterloo.

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Teams and Teamwork
Teams and Teamwork

In this module, you will explore some fundamental ideas around teamwork in healthcare. You will explore how the components of a team come together and how roles affect team functioning.

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Equity, Diversity, Indigeneity, Inclusion, & Accessibility (EDIIA)

The Office of Professional Development and Educational Scholarship has compiled the below list of EDIIA modules, sessions, and resources that are currently available across Queen's University.

Each link will redirect you to the host department's website for more information and to register for the specified resource or session. A Queen's NetID may be required.

If a resource is missing, or no longer available, please contact fac.dev@queensu.ca.

Human Rights and Equity Office

 

Human Resources Learning Catalogue

Search the session name in the Workshop Calendar for available dates and session details.

 

Office of Professional Development and Educational Scholarship

Human Rights and Equity Office

 

Human Resources Learning Catalogue

Search the session name in the Workshop Calendar for available dates and session details.

Human Rights and Equity Office

 

Human Resources Learning Catalogue

Search the session name in the Workshop Calendar for available dates and session details.

 

Centre for Teaching and Learning

 

Office of Indigenous Initiatives

 

Office of Professional Development and Educational Scholarship

Human Rights and Equity Office

 

Human Resources Learning Catalogue

Search the session name in the Workshop Calendar for available dates and session details.

Human Rights and Equity Office

 

Human Resources Learning Catalogue

Search the session name in the Workshop Calendar for available dates and session details.

 

Centre for Teaching and Learning

The Harbour is Queen’s Health Sciences (QHS) new destination for conversations on issues related to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Indigeneity, and Accessibility (EDIIA).   

The innovative podcast series highlights conversations between QHS learners, staff, and faculty that will prompt listeners to reflect on their own personal biases and provide them with ways to practice critical allyship. 

Hosted by Celina Caesar-Chavannes, Senior Advisor, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity (EDI) Initiatives, the podcast features a variety of guests – from student leaders to EDIIA researchers to faculty leaders like Dean Jane Philpott and Colleen Davison, Associate Dean, Equity and Social Accountability.

 

Episode 1 - Holidays

Certain statutory holidays in Canada align Christian religious days of observation.  Christmas. Good Friday. Caesar-Chavannes, medical student Suffia Malik, and Dean Philpott discuss how our growingly diverse community at Queen's can be better supported to observe religious and cultural dates that are often overlooked. (Recorded June 9, 2022) 

https://podcast.cfrc.ca/2023/03/episode-1-holidays/

 

Episode 2 - Generational Gap  

Generation Z is holding us accountable for an equitable and inclusive cultural transformation.  Caesar-Chavannes sits down with Medicine students’ Samriddhi Mishra and Candice Martin to converse about the generational gap and how a new generation of students are pushing for change in the health sciences. (Recorded November 11, 2022) 

https://podcast.cfrc.ca/2023/03/episode-2-generational-gap/  

 

Episode 3 - Empathy/Compassion  

There has been a shift in health sciences to lead with empathy and compassion amongst health professionals and leadership.  Caesar-Chavannes, Stephanie Nixon (Vice Dean and Director of the School of Rehabilitation Therapy), and EDIIA student researcher Ben Carroll (Nursing) engage in an insightful dialogue on how to engage in the practice of empathy and compassion.    (Recorded November 11, 2022) 

https://podcast.cfrc.ca/2023/03/episode-3-empathy-compassion/  

 

Episode 4 - Food Security  

Food Security has become a heightened issue with the rise of food prices and climate change as well as the need to acknowledge Indigenous food sovereignty and relationship to land.  Caesar-Chavannes, Sarah Funnell (Director of Indigenous Health, Department of Family Medicine), Ayla Fenton (Loving Spoonful), and Colleen Davison (Associate Dean, Equity and Social Accountability) share their thoughts on the landscape of food (in)security issues and the changes required to address food (in)security. (Recorded December 2, 2022) 

https://podcast.cfrc.ca/2023/03/episode-4-food-security/

 

Episode 5 - Cancel Culture  

What is deemed an (un)acceptable act?  Who gets to decide what is an (un)acceptable act?  How do we respond to cancel culture and social accountability?  Caesar-Chavannes, Public Health Sciences student Ishana Maini, and Terry Soleas, Director of Continuing Professional Development (Office of Professional Development & Educational Scholarship), have a vulnerable conversation on the ties between accountability and cancel culture as well as the consequences of cancel culture. (Recorded December 2, 2022) 

https://podcast.cfrc.ca/2023/03/episode-5-cancel-culture/

 

Episode 6 - Labels  

We have a need to categorize and group people into specific labels based on self-identified and imposed identities.  Caesar-Chavannes, Medical student Ryan Truong (QHS Outreach and Summer Program coordinator) and accessibility researcher Mahadeo Sukhai (Department of Ophthalmology), unpack the labelling of individuals and groups and how we navigate through power structures with these identities. (Recorded December 2, 2022) 

https://podcast.cfrc.ca/2023/03/episode-6-labels/

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