Faculty Professional Development

Engaging faculty in certified/accredited faculty professional development (FPD) is a key program area for OPED. Much like CPD, programming is available to faculty (including New Brunswick) via live (face-to-face), webinar, online/distance, and one-on-one consultations with a Teaching Consultant. OPED also has online resources including vodcasts, teaching tips, and archived workshops.

Fundamentals of Clinical Research

Fundamentals of Clinical Research Modules are a series of accredited modules that will give you an overview of various aspects of clinical research. This initiative stemmed from the Faculty’s Strategic Plan (Destination Excellence) to increase research activity amongst residents in the Faculty. Fundamentals of Clinical Research Modules consists of five modules that give learners an introduction to several aspects of clinical research, which can be built upon by discipline‐specific training.
The Modules are:

• Introduction to a Research Project
• Research Ethics
• Qualitative Research
• Quantitative Research
• Clinical Trials

The Fundamentals of Clinical Research has been a collaborative effort between the Office of Research and Graduate Studies (RGS), the Office of Professional & Educational Development (OPED), and the Clinical Research Directors Committee, Faculty of Medicine.
Registration and More Info: https://www.med.mun.ca/oped/clinical_research/

Teaching Tips

Teaching Tips are brief, concise summaries that describe useful ideas and practical methods for effective teaching in medical education settings. Medical educators will find these Teaching Tips helpful for answering questions and learning about different approaches and techniques for teaching in medical education.

• Characteristics of a Good Clinic Card
• Faculty Evaluation at the FoM
• Lecturing 101
• Models of Office-based and Bedside Teaching
• Qualitative Research in Medical Education
• Writing Multiple-Choice Questions 101
• Writing Objectives for Academic Sessions
• Quantitative Research in Medical Education
• PowerPoint Guidelines

Explainer Videos

OPED’s Explainer Videos provide faculty with a concise overview of a topic or concept in medical education. Using animation as the medium, our Explainer Videos focus on presenting concepts in an easy-to-access and engaging format.

• How to Design MCQs (3:27)
• Capturing the Conversation: The Clinic eCard in Clerkship (3:29)
• Giving Effective Feedback (3:51)
• The Microskills Model of Clinical Teaching (One Minute Preceptor) (4:23)
• EPAs - Clinic e-Cards with T-Res (49:11)
• Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) (3:11)

Medical Education Rounds

Medical Education Rounds bring together faculty members interested in innovations and research in medical education for presentations on a variety of subjects of interest. The Medical Education Rounds will be offered through existing discipline rounds and archived for viewing at your leisure.

View the Medical Education Rounds Archives

Webcast Faculty Development Seminar Archives

Webcast Audio Seminar archives of The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) are now available online for free. The Webcast Audio Seminar archives are located on the IAMSE website under the Events heading as Web Seminars. Here, you will be able to search the archives or browse by year and series. Every series is available publicly one year after the series originally began.