Good leadership and good followership is so fundamental to what we do in medical and health professions education. It is about understanding our culture and context with our central core always aiming to enhance the care and experiences of our patients, their families and their caregivers. At this year’s Toronto International Summit on Leadership Education for Physicians (TISLEP), we aim to explore and expand the dialogue around leadership education and culture. With diverse participants and facilitators from around the world including patient voice, learners, other health care professionals and medical faculty, we will look outside the box and explore a breadth of topics including diversity, power, change management and developing faculty to teach leadership, just to name a few.
Around the world, the leadership education agenda is growing – it enables agility in this time of growing complexity in healthcare, enhances skill sets to navigate change and is highlighted as a need from undergraduate education, postgraduate education through to the faculty level. As everyday leaders, students, residents and faculty need to speak up, enable or facilitate necessary change and co-produce to provide tangible solutions. The Future of Medical Education Reports in 2010 highlighted leadership education as a key priority in our undergraduate students, through to 2012 in the postgraduate arena and now in fall 2018 at the continuing professional development (CPD) level.
This year will be its fifth iteration and since its inception, TISLEP has been one of our highlights of ICRE as a pre-conference event. This year, ICRE’s overall theme of the learning environment will facilitate dialogue on this very important part of our medical education culture. The Learning Environment Consensus Conference (Oct 16-17) that immediately follows TISLEP, will allow a deeper dive into the different avenues of the learning environment while ICRE’s main events will continue to offer a breadth of topics important across the spectrum of residency education. There are diverse streams that meet the needs from novice to the more experienced in medical and health professions education. Post conference, the International Clinician Educators’ Summit is always a hit as it is provokes us to think outside the box. Through these week-long opportunities, everyone can find it a way to connect, re-connect, network and expand our communities of practice.
To find out more about TISLEP, the Learning Environment Consensus Conference, ICE Summit and/or ICRE, visit: www.royalcollege.ca/icre
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