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Disparities in healthcare due to racism and discrimination continue to harm Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) communities.  Some of these disparities are systemic and need to be addressed at the policy level. However, many are more personal, at the individual level in the form of microagressions, stereotype threat, and insensitive comments. This can occur at an unconscious level, where many of us are not even aware of the associations we make which can cause harm to others. Awareness, acceptance, and understanding of unconscious bias is a necessary initial step in addressing many of the societal inequities that can result from our decisions and actions.  Faculty Development offers training on unconscious bias in order to begin conversations around bias and its impact within healthcare.  Sessions can be very general (biological and socio-cultural roots of bias, examination of personal bias, and thinking framework for addressing bias) or more specific, focused on various aspects of Medicine; for example coaching and feedback, clinical decision-making, or admissions interviewing and selection.

To arrange a session for your group, please contact Sean Polreis.

For more Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) related resources, check out the University's EDI webpage.

Faculty Development (FD) is a community of practice of staff, faculty including physicians and other providers, educators and learners around the province who are interested in supporting and facilitating medical education, using best practices and evidence for work in all domains- clinical, administrative, teaching and learning, research and leadership.   We are creating a Faculty Development Network to reach across all areas of the province and are working to have leads in all disciplines.  We also have a Faculty Development Advisory committee to help strategically guide our work and an End Users group of medical students and residents to give us feedback on how we are doing from their perspective.

We are here to support you in those areas of your work that include teaching (all levels of learners), research (to help get you started), leadership (including assuming educational leadership roles), wellness for you and your learners and more.  We want to support you as we collectively strive to provide excellent learning experiences across all our teaching sites.  We want to support you individually in your faculty role and hope the resources provided on this site and through our various programs will be helpful.  We recognize faculty development is often most relevant at the site/clinic/program/or department level.  Feel free to contact us for more information or to arrange a FD session.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is a broadly defined group of activities that includes both Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Faculty Development (FD).  We embrace lifelong learning across all CanMEDS domains and are here to support and meet your continuing education needs.  We work closely with the Division of CME and look forward to helping you meet your MOC/Mainpro requirements and continuous improvement in all aspects of our professional work in today’s healthcare environment.

We use the USask SRS site to register for both CME and FD events.  Click here to find a list of currently offered programs.

Faculty Development assists faculty members in the achievement of their academic roles with an aim to enhance the experience of our learners and support the missions of our faculties.  Below are just a few of the many supports we offer.

Track Your Thinking

Thinking about your thinking – Click here to download and use this template to record  “process notes” to reflect on what you want to use or take away from this page.  This can be similar to writing a progress note on patient care.  Download this pdf and keep it as a record.  Write out your comments on what you are learning and come back to this from time to time to see how your thoughts and feelings are changing.  Review what you have written and re-comment on how you are applying what you are learning to your day to day practice

Faculty Development Website Survey

Click here to complete a short survey that will assist us in continuous improvement of our website. We  appreciate your feedback.