Faculty Development Resources
Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs): What You Need to Know
This brief video and primer, intended for students, residents, and faculty provides an overview of EPAs for the MD Program. It demonstrates a framework for approaching EPA observation, feedback and assessment, and offers tips for success.
Video - Entrustable Professional Activities: What You Need to Know
Primer - Entrustable Professional Activities: EPA Pilot Primer (Assessors)
Essentials for Teaching Case-Based Learning (CBL)
This purpose of this emodule is to provide an alternative orientation to teaching in the Foundations curriculum for anyone who is unable to attend a face-to-face session and to provide a resource to review the materials prior to your teaching date. This emodule covers:
- What are the goals of CBL?
- What is CBL and its role in the Foundations curriculum?
- What are the major differences between CBL & PBL
Emodule (best viewed in Chrome): http://emodules.med.utoronto.ca/DCemodules/CBLforTutors/story.html
FAQs for Small Group Tutors
FAQ on Curriculum Delivery, Faculty Development, Professionalism, Academic Integrity, Attendance, and Student Wellness – Foundations Tutors.
Fitz - Patient Panel Document for Patients and Families
FITZ: This document describes the Patient Panel for prospective patient panelists and their families. Students should provide a copy of this document to patients when seeking their participation and verbal agreement.
Frailty 5 Checklist
This article reviews how to help learners how to use the Frailty 5 Checklist to deliver care to older adults.
From the Flipped Classroom to Zoom: Strategies for Facilitating CBL
This video, 'From the Flipped Classroom to Zoom: Tips for Facilitating CBL Online,' offers practical tips, guidance and strategies for engaging students, including:
- how to use basic ZOOM functions to promote discussion and active learning;
- how to frame and develop effective questions so as to more fully engage quieter students;
- how to deploy specific strategies in order to tackle common challenges associated with online facilitation.
Giving and Receiving Feedbacks on EPAs
Giving and receiving feedback on EPAs is all about ATATUDE! The resource will review steps for assessors to help learners complete EPAs and engage in feedback conversation. As well as consider some common reactions learners may have when they receive feedback.
Guided Learning
If you are wondering how you can use questions to guide your learners greater understanding, please refer to this article that describes one approach to guided teaching and learning.
Guided Learning in Case-Based Learning (CBL)
Guided Learning or guided instruction is one approach tutors can use to facilitate small group discussions that offers systematic support when students get stuck. This resource explains how CBL Tutors can use Questioning, Probing, Cueing, Explaining, and Modelling to guide student learning.
Guidelines for Dialogue to Support Psychological Safety in Portfolio Scholar
This document provides guidelines for dialogue to support psychological safety in Portfolio Scholar.