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Building Multiple-Choice Questions Using Cognitive Models – An Innovative Approach to Expanding Your Exam Content (clerkship and pre-clerkship)  (in English)

Date/Time: Thursday, June 16, 2022 | 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Location:  Virtual - link to be provided later
Facilitator: Dr. Isabelle Desjardins
Target Audience: UGME clerkship and pre-clerkship Faculty members - FoM

Prerequisite: We strongly recommend that participants complete the MCQ writing learning module offered by the Medical Council of Canada and McMaster University Continuing Health Sciences Program (https://machealth.ca/programs/mcq_and_cdm_prep/) before attending this workshop. The learning module takes approximately one hour and will introduce the learner to concepts around producing high quality questions. The MCC and McMaster workshop is an accredited activity.

 

The goal of this workshop is to provide a framework for the development of high-quality MCQs using cognitive models. This virtual workshop will be a practical session in which participants affiliated with UGME exams will have a short didactic presentation on the development of MCQs and the use of cognitive models and then will develop their own cognitive models, as facilitated by the presenter.

They will then use these models to build MCQs.

 

Description: Whether at the pre-clerkship or clerkship levels, exam content developers are consistently striving to expand their exam content to ensure that exam questions are medically accurate, up-to-date, and frequently renewed. However, exam content development can be a very resource-intensive endeavour.  A creative solution to this problem has been the use of cognitive models (i.e., representations of the knowledge and skills that are required to solve a problem) to improve the efficiency of multiple-choice question (MCQ) development. Item writers will be asked to use the cognitive model approach to deconstruct their reasoning process to develop a cognitive model that will be used to create multiple MCQs. This approach has many advantages: it is efficient and leads to high-quality items by ensuring that MCQs assess the application of knowledge rather than factual recall.

 

Objectives:

After this session, participants will be able to:

• 1. Describe the basic principles of effective MCQ development
• 2. Describe the process of developing a cognitive model
• 3. Develop a cognitive model 
• 4. Use their model to build MCQs 

Webinar - Communicating Your Research via Social and Traditional media - Spring 2022 (in English)

Date/Time: Thursday June 16, 2022 | 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Facilitators: 
     Ms. Chonglu Huang - Social media manager, FoM, Marcom Office
     Mr. David McFadden - Researcher writer, FoM, Marcom Office
Target Audience: All faculty members at the Faculty of Medicine (clinicians and basic science)

 

About the Faculty of Medicine’s 'COMMUNICATING YOUR RESEARCH VIA SOCIAL AND TRADITIONAL MEDIA' workshop

What kind of social media platform might be best to share my research? What do I do if a major media outlet wants me on their broadcast? How can I effectively promote the work I’m doing? Whether you are a newbie to social media and mainstream media or would like to ramp up your skills and know-how, the Faculty of Medicine’s workshop will provide attendees with insights in how best to share their research findings with the world.

The two-pronged presentation will focus on practical learning and tips that you can implement right away. It will delve into specifics on crafting successful posts, the benefits of being active on social media, as well as offer counsel on legacy media interviews and how best to share your expertise. 

 

 Content of presentation

·         Learn how to explain your science on social media succinctly and with visuals

·         Find your targeted community through relevant tags

·         Best practices for content creation on social media platforms

·         See examples of successful posts by peers in medicine

·         How to create a social media strategy that gets results

·         Tips and tricks for the dominant platforms

·         Benefits to saying yes to media appearances, interviews

·         Dos and don’ts when giving interviews

·         Steps to take before the media interview

·         How we can help amplify your research findings, collaboration successes

·         Q&A and discussion

  

 Learning objectives

·         Demonstrate how to effectively share your research

·         Build your academic peer networks

·         Assess your research to identify the key messages

·         Develop your research key messages for a broad audience.

·         Explain/demonstrate best practices in conduct on social media and when appearing in mainstream media

Rédiger des questions à choix multiple à l’aide de modèles cognitifs – Une approche novatrice pour améliorer le contenu de vos examens du préexternat ou de l’externat

Date et heure : Le mercredi 29 juin 2022 | De 16 h à 19 h
Lieu : Un lien virtuel vous sera envoyé ultérieurement
Animatrice : Dre Isabelle Desjardins
Public cible : Corps professoral (préexternat et externat) – Études médicales de premier cycle (EMPC) – Faculté de médecine

 

Préalable : On suggère fortement de suivre le module d’apprentissage sur la rédaction de questions à choix multiple (QCM) offert par le Conseil médical du Canada (CMC) et le Programme de formation continue en sciences de la santé de l’Université McMaster (https://machealth.ca/programs/mcq_and_cdm_prep/) avant de prendre part à cet atelier. Le module, qui est une activité agréée, dure environ une heure et présente des concepts pour produire des questions de qualité.

 

Cet atelier virtuel, à l’intention des personnes qui préparent des questions d’examen, a pour but de proposer un cadre pour l’élaboration de QCM de qualité au moyen de modèles cognitifs. Il débutera par une brève présentation didactique sur l’élaboration de QCM et l’utilisation de modèles cognitifs, à la suite de laquelle les participantes et participants élaboreront leurs propres modèles cognitifs, avec l’aide de l’animatrice. Ces modèles serviront ensuite à rédiger des QCM.

 

Description : Que ce soit au préexternat ou à l’externat, on cherche constamment à améliorer le contenu d’examen pour que les questions soient médicalement exactes, actuelles et renouvelées régulièrement. Cependant, l’élaboration de contenu d’examen peut nécessiter beaucoup de travail.  

Une solution créative à ce problème consiste à utiliser des modèles cognitifs (c’est-à-dire la représentation des connaissances et des compétences nécessaires à la résolution d’un problème) pour élaborer des QCM de manière plus efficace. Lors de cette séance, nous utiliserons l’approche du modèle cognitif pour déconstruire notre processus de raisonnement et mettre au point un modèle cognitif qui servira à créer des QCM. Cette approche présente de nombreux avantages : elle est efficace et aide à produire des questions de qualité qui évaluent l’application des connaissances plutôt que le rappel de connaissances factuelles.

 

Objectifs d’apprentissage :

À la fin de cette séance, vous pourrez :

1. décrire les principes de base de l’élaboration efficace de QCM;
2. décrire le processus d’élaboration d’un modèle cognitif;
3. mettre au point un modèle cognitif;
4. utiliser ce modèle pour créer des QCM.

September 15, 22 & 29, 2022
4:00PM - 6:15PM

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Thursday, September 22 (6:45 AM - 4:30 PM) & September 23 (7:00 AM - 3:00 PM), 2022
11.5 Hours (Section 1) | 1.00 Hours (Section 3)

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The National Capital Knee Symposium is back!

This is a must-attend event for surgeons, fellows, residents in Orthopaedic Surgery as well as family physicians, sports medicine physicians and allied health professionals.

After being postponed due to the pandemic, we are thrilled to welcome you once again to the Westin Ottawa for the 5th Biennial National Capital Knee Symposium

HOT TOPICS WILL INCLUDE:

• Cartilage restoration
• Optimum management of patella dislocation
• Decision making in knee replacement and elevating our game for best results
• Managing complications and dealing with the most difficulty revisions
   

For more information and to register, click here

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Friday, October 14, 2022
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM (EST)

Offered Virtually

The University of Ottawa, Office of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and the Department of Psychiatry are proud to present this 1/2-day virtual course designed for family physicians, obstetricians, psychiatrists and other primary obstetric/mental healthcare providers. This course will offer relevant, practical and up-to-date tools and resources to identify and manage mental illness in pregnant and postpartum people. Participants will be able to interact virtually with perinatal psychiatry experts through plenary sessions and interactive short presentations.

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Cohort 3 - Mixed streams (Primary Care and Specialist specific breakouts) October 14, November 18, December 9 2022.

Who should attend? Ontario family physicians and specialists and their teams who are looking to advance their quality improvement skills and those who are working on their CPSO practice improvement plans.

What is the course content? This is an interactive, experiential learning program designed to provide a practical approach to quality improvement through skill development, the identification of practice data sources, and the application of QI tools to develop a practice improvement plan and implementation strategy.

How will I learn? There will be 3 virtual 3 hour sessions with didactic and interactive learning, breakout sessions to discuss and practice skills, as well as practice improvement facilitation between sessions to assist in data retrieval from EMRs and developing practice improvement goals.

For more information or to register, click here.

Saturday, October 15, 2022

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In-person Conference

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For more information, please visit our website - https://uottawacpd.eventsair.com/vasc2022

 

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Friday, October 28, 2022

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Friday October 28, 2022

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Friday November 18th, 2022

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Offered Virtually

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Friday, November 25, 2022

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Offered in person - uOttawa Skills and Simulation Centre, 725 Parkdale Ave, Ottawa

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January 9 - 13, 2023

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Course Description
The E.K. Koranyi Review Course in Psychiatry is a yearly, intensive review of psychiatry, meant to help Canadian Psychiatry Residents prepare for their Royal College Exams, as well as provide an update for practicing psychiatrists, featuring 23 lectures over 5 days.

For more information, please visit https://uottawacpd.eventsair.com/ek2023/

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Friday, February 3 to Sunday February 5, 2023