Request an education session

As one of Canada’s largest providers of continuing professional development, the CMPA addresses the educational needs of physicians to help them improve their practices and to provide safe medical care through the continuum of their careers. We provide practice improvement education for physicians in practice and physician leaders. The CMPA provides resources to help manage risk and contribute to safe medical care. The CMPA is not able to set clinical standards, guidelines or policies.

For your request to be considered, please ensure that:

• request forms are submitted at least 6 months in advance of the planned session
• the request is sponsored by a CMPA member
• a minimum of 20 CMPA members attend the session

There is no cost for a CMPA presenter to speak at your event; education sessions are a benefit to CMPA members. However, the requester is responsible for any costs associated with hosting their event (i.e. meeting room, catering, or audio-visual equipment).

Topics

• Informed consent
• Patient-centred communication skills and managing challenging patient encounters
• Team communication and collaboration: improving psychological safety and situational awareness
• Safe delegation and supervision
• Improving handover communication
• Virtual care considerations
• Test results follow-up
• Diagnostic decision-making
• Documentation best practices
• Disclosure of patient safety incidents (accidents in Quebec)
• Physician leadership workshop (Note: accredited 6.5 hr full day F2F workshop or 2 half day virtual sessions)
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  Building reliable systems:

  
  

  1. The leader’s role
     Objectives and CanMEDS Roles

     • Explain the 2 key elements of a framework for improvement (Leader, Scholar)
     • Describe the role of the leader in supporting a learning system and a culture of continuous improvement (Leader, Collaborator, Health Advocate, Scholar)

     
     
  2. Understanding psychological safety
     Objectives and CanMEDS Roles
     

     • Explain the core role of psychological safety in workplace culture (Leader, Professional)
     • Describe the leader’s role in modelling psychological safety (Leader, Collaborator)
     • Identify specific behaviours that model psychological safety and how this can impact team performance (Collaborator, Leader, Scholar, Professional)

     
     
  3. A culture of accountability
     Objectives and CanMEDS Roles
     

     • Describe the 3 behaviours that threaten patient safety (Collaborator, Leader)
     • Describe appropriate management interventions for these behaviours (Collaborator, Leader)
     • Explain the elements of accountability at the system and provider levels (Collaborator, Leader)

     
     
  4. Natural justice and managing conflict
     Objectives and CanMEDS Roles
     

     • Explain the importance of natural justice principles in establishing reliable management of disruptive behaviours (Leader, Collaborator)
     • Describe a framework for managing conflict and unwanted or disruptive behaviours (Collaborator, Leader, Professional)

     
     
  5. Putting learning into practice
     Objectives and CanMEDS Roles
     

     • Explain how this content can be applied to the local work environment (Leader, Scholar)
     • Propose steps to incorporate knowledge into practice and effect system level impact (Health Advocate, Leader, Scholar)

Depending on your medico-legal concerns, we may be able to accommodate other topics which can be specified in the request.

Request a session

For more information, please email [email protected]