Faculty Development Resources
Teaching and Supervision in Virtual Care
The purpose of this primer is to help clinical teachers supervising learners across all levels of health professions who are providing virtual care.
Teaching History Taking and Communication Skills (Slides)
This faculty development session will help tutors prepare to teach the Strategies for History Taking and Communication Skills' session to Year 1 students.
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Teaching Takeout Menu
This on-the-go pocket guide covers the essentials you need for clinical teaching.
The Clinical Skills Second Year Students Have
This resource reviews the material Year 2 MD students have learned in their first year of medical school.
The Clinical Skills Second Year Students Have
This resource reviews the material Year 2 MD students have learned in their first year of medical school.
The Essentials of Teaching Case-based Learning
This resource reviews the strategies for facilitating CBL.
The Practicum Exercise: HSR
The Health Science Research course is a second year course in the MD Program that provides students with an introduction to the principles of research, and is directed at helping students understand and use research to contribute to improving the health of people and populations.
The major teaching modalities employed in the HSR course are:
- E-modules - the core curriculum of the course
- small group tutorials
- the Practicum Exercise
This e-learning module is designed to help students and faculty understand the practicum exercise, a major component of the HSR course. The e-learning module will address:
- What is the Practicum Exercise?
- Why is the Practicum Exercise important?
- How will the student and tutor navigate their way through the development of the Practicum Exercise?
Click the link to view the learning emodule: http://emodules.med.utoronto.ca/dcemodules/HSRPracticumExercise/story.html
THP - Teaching and Supervising Learners in a Virtual Care Environment
Trillium Health Partners - Teaching and supervising learners in a virtual care environment.
TTR Attendance and Absences
Students can miss one clinical day for non-MD Program sanctioned absences without needing clinical make up time. This includes planned absences (for personal reasons, presenting at academic conferences), and unplanned absences (illness)
For Planned Absence Requests
- Approval must come from TTR Course Director
- Redirect students to submit planned absence requests centrally AND email ttr.ume@utoronto.ca, TTR administrative office, to keep an eye out for planned absence requests
- Ensure clinical make up time is arranged if needed
For Unplanned Absences
- Remind faculty/residents to notify Site Director/Site Administrator whenever there is an unplanned student absence including and scheduled ON CALL
- Ensure students need to be reminded to log the unplanned absence centrally
- This is to track absences across ALL clerkship rotations
- *Not logging absences appropriately will be documented on Professional Behaviours Assessment Form
- Email ttr.ume@utoronto.ca regarding all unplanned absences so the TTR administrative office can follow up
- Ensure clinical make up time is arranged if needed
TTR Clinical Assessment Form
This is a sample of a Transition to Residency (TTR) clinical assessment form which TTR preceptors have to fill out at the end of the medical student's block. You can access the evaluation on MedSIS.