DFCM City Wide Research Rounds are an accredited bimonthly, two-hour interactive event focusing on primary care research and research practices. Research Rounds are open to all Family Medicine / Community Medicine / Primary Care researchers, faculty, residents, students, and staff. Invited guest speakers will focus on research results, methodologies, and techniques; and the Research In Progress discussion will highlight new and exciting research.

Join us on January 19, 2017 for the first DFCM City Wide Research Rounds in 2017, featuring Dr. José Pereira and Dr. Melissa Nutik.

Dr. José Pereira will be presenting "A Culture of Curiosity in the Frontlines.". He will discuss the need to engage family physicians and primary health care teams working at the frontlines in Quality Improvement (QI) and research. He will present the CFPC’s emerging vision related to building Research and QI capacity in practices across Canada and scale up excellent work being currently done in some programs and regions. He will also describe how the College is beginning to envision the concepts of Research Ready Practices and QI Ready and Active Practices.

Dr. Woods will be presenting "Informing a New Curriculum: A Generalist Lens". Generalism is believed to be a widely held fundamental value in medical education. The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto is currently engaged in preclerkship curriculum renewal.  The new curriculum is purported to be based on ‘Generalist’ principles.  However, in the course of curriculum review, it became apparent that perspectives on Generalism held by faculty and other stakeholders were varied and unclear.  Dr. Nutik will describe the development of an evidence-informed tool to support a Generalist lens through which to provide institutional guidance in the implementation of a new undergraduate curriculum based on ‘Generalist’ principles and propose a program of scholarship to study its impact.

Join us in person or online at http://uoftfamilymedicine.adobeconnect.com/researchrounds/

Join us for our annual day-long event for family physicians and health professional educators involved in undergraduate medical education.  This year's workshop takes place on Friday, October 28th, 2016 at the Vaughan Estates of Sunnybrook.

About the Event

• Hosted by: The Department of Family and Community Medicine's Undergraduate Education Program.
• 2016 theme: Into the Future - the New Curriculum
• Keynote speaker: Dr. Patricia Houston, Vice-Dean, MD Program in the Faculty of Medicine
• Small group sessions
• Faculty and student posters
• Breakfast and lunch Pasteincluded
• Free to University of Toronto Family Medicine teachers
• Free parking

This continuing education event is held under the auspices of Continuing Professional Development, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto and the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto.

College of Family Physicians of Canada – Mainpro+:
This Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by Continuing Professional Development, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto for up to 5.5 Mainpro+ credits.

Registration for this event has now closed.

Small Group Sessions

Two small group sessions offer the following options.

Please click  here  to download details on the sessions (pdf).

Session #1
11:00 am - 12:30 pm

• Teaching Undergraduate Medicine Through A Generalist Lens
  Ruby Alvi, Azadeh Moaveni, Melissa Nutik, James Owen, Risa Freeman
   
• MEET-MP (Making Every Encounter Therapeutic-Medical Psychiatry): Fostering Healing Conversations
  Adrienne Tan, Pracha Vatsya, Ketan Vegda, Lu Gao, Carrol Zhou, Jana Lazor, Azi Moaveni, Ruby Alvi
   
• Teaching Generation “Why”: How the principles of Generational Theory inform Curriculum Development and Undergraduate Teaching in the Health Sciences
  Patricia Windrim
   
• Back to the Future: Exploring Old Fashioned Approaches to Modern Complexity
  Chase McMurren, Purti Papneja
   
• Building a Resilient Medical Education Community: What does it mean, why does it matter, and how can we promote it?
  Leslie Nickell, Jana Lazor, Raed Hawa, Shayna Kulman Lipsey

Session #2
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm

• Lifting Barriers to Care with Evidence Based Mindfulness Meditation techniques in Busy Medical Practices
  Dr. Kevin Rod and Ms. Kimya Rod
   
• Promoting Performance Change: Delivering specific, actionable, clinical skills feedback to early medical learners
  Preeni Rathuge, Jean Hudson, Joyce Nyhof-Young, Jana Lazor
   
• Time saving Technology
  David Esho

Agenda

Research Ethics Board Workshops

There are REB workshops available to all DFCM faculty, staff and students, held each November and February.

The 2015/2016 schedule for Health Sciences REB workshops is:

WINTER 2016
Tuesday, Feb. 23 
2 pm - 4 pm 
Wednesday, Feb. 24 
10 am - 12 pm 
Thursday, Feb. 25 
2 pm - 4 pm 

Register for REB workshops.

Leadership Basics
Gear Up for the Next Level

Are you a new or emerging faculty leader? Leadership Basics is a great way to prepare yourself for growth in the DFCM faculty. These day and a half workshops will help you develop your leadership skills and set professional goals, plus allow you to network with other emerging leaders in the DFCM faculty. 

Topics at Leadership Basics workshops can include:

• styles and forms of leadership
• dealing with conflict
• change management
• resilience

Learn how to pave your path forward and enjoy the benefit of belonging to DFCM faculty. 

Register now >