Teacher Certificate Program 1: Foundational Teaching

5 online workshops

Online via Zoom, Thursdays (5:30pm – 7:00pm)

Receive a Certificate of Completion

Obtain CME (Continuing Medical Education) Credits

Those who teach and assess in the Medical Degree Undergraduate Program from all sites (IMP, NMP, SMP, and VFMP) are welcome to register.

Upcoming Sessions

The Teacher Certificate Program (TCP) is a series of online teacher development workshops provided as a collaboration between the regional Island, Northern, Southern, and Vancouver-Fraser Medical Programs. 

TCP 1: Foundational Teaching is designed to cover core teaching and assessment competencies for those who teach in the MD Undergraduate Program (MDUP). Each session is 1.5 hours and will accumulate toward a certificate of completion and Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits.

1. Active Learning

  • Facilitate active learning appropriate to the learner’s stage.
  • Explain current concepts underpinning active learning.
  • Target teaching to the level of the learner.
  • Use effective questioning to elicit clinical reasoning and/or decision making.
Sign up for Oct 17, 2024

2. Learning Relationships

  • Integrate learner’s educational history and goals in the educational plan.
  • Describe characteristics of healthy relationships (UBC professional standards) and boundaries.
  • Recognize (mis)treatment and its impact.
  • Recognize a student in difficulty.
  • Adequately utilize resources for student support.
Sign up for Dec 12, 2024

3. Feedback & Reflection

  • Establish conditions for effective feedback and reflection.
  • Discuss tools to facilitate feedback conversations.
  • Discuss approaches to provide goal-oriented feedback to build educational alliance.
Sign up for Feb 13, 2025

4. Assessment

  • Describe the Medical Degree Undergraduate Program’s (MDUP) programmatic assessment model, and the embedded concepts of low and high-stakes assessments.
  • Practice ways teachers in the MDUP optimally apply its main assessment tools, including workplace-based assessments (WBAs) and direct observation.
  • Identify strategies teachers use to support fairness, equity, and transparency when assessing learners.
  • Compare assessment tools and approaches used in the UBC MDUP to those used in postgraduate education.
Sign up for Apr 3, 2025

5. Learning Context

  • Use strategies to maximize the learning opportunities specific to the context (practice based, classroom based, self-directed learning).
  • Match content and responsibility to the level of the learner.
  • Discuss ways to integrate learners into your clinical practice with layered learning.
Sign up for May 15, 2025

Sessions may be recorded for quality improvement. Please contact us at vfmp.facdev@ubc.ca should you have any questions.

Regional contacts

Connect with your regional faculty development office in the emails below.