Special Topics in Teaching (CTE219)

Description: Join us for two interactive presentations by doctoral students taking part in the advanced Certificate in University Teaching (CUT) program, and find out more about the educational research interests of your fellow graduate students across campus. This will be a 1.5 hour-long presentation session followed by questions from participants that will count towards your Fundamentals workshop credit. It will be of special interest to those in AHS and Science, as well as those thinking about continuing into the advanced CUT program, after completing the Fundamentals.

How to Measure Competence in Social Work Education (presentation)
Christine Sheppard, PhD candidate, School of Public Health and Health Systems
Much like other health and human service professions, the field of social work is dependent upon the ability of educational programs to produce competent practitioners. For social work, competence reflects the ability to integrate and apply social work knowledge, skills, values, and affective processes to different practice situations in ways that promote well-being. Assessment of social work competencies is most commonly conducted during field education. However, assessment of competencies by field instructors is problematic, as the scope of evaluation is limited to the specific setting of the practicum environment, and evaluations tend to be biased and overly favourable. This presentation will examine the ways in which simulated clients and the objective structured clinical exam (OSCE) have been used in social work to overcome the limitations of evaluating practice competencies in field education. 

Teaching Clinical Reasoning Skills in Clinical Courses (mini-workshop)
Balsam Alabdulkader, PhD candidate, School of Optometry
Teaching clinical skills is an important component of the curriculum of healthcare programs. The theoretical part of clinical courses can be achieved through the knowledge of a combination of biomedical science courses. However, the practical part of clinical courses is taught through practicing at the clinic and seeing patients. Clinical reasoning is an important skill which links the assessment, the diagnosis, and the management of the patient. This workshop will introduce participants to the research on teaching clinical skills and provide examples of teaching strategies that can be used to help students develop clinical reasoning skills.

Notes:

• Participants will receive an attendance credit if they arrive on time and stay until the end of the event.
• A maximum of one special topic workshops can be counted towards your Fundamentals certificate.

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