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You are invited to join us for our CAME WEBINAR SERIES

The CAME webinar series is designed to bring practical, evidence and experience-based advice to Canadian health educators.

Through these monthly Zoom-based CAME webinars, you can listen to presentations on key topics in health professional education and engage with an expert and colleagues in live discussions.

Registration is now free for CAME members! Recordings of webinars are also available to our members via our new membership portal!

 

Title: Unravelling the Complexities of Teacher Motivation from the Perspectives of Teachers, Learners and Leadership: Implications for Teacher Engagement and Recruitment

Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2026 – This webinar will be delivered in English

Presentation 2: 12:00pm-1:00pm Pacific, (3:00pm-4:00pm Eastern)

Presenter: Dr. Katherine Wisener, University of British Columbia

Biography:

Katherine Wisener holds a PhD in Health Professions Education through Maastricht University where her research focused on how health professions programs can effectively support and motivate faculty who teach. She also holds an MA from UBC’s Faculty of Education. She is inspired by the thousands of faculty members who go above and beyond to teach learners in UBC’s Faculty of Medicine, and is passionate about providing meaningful supports to help recognize their teaching efforts.
 
While “spare time” is rare with two young active sons, she loves trail running in BC’s beautiful mountains.

 

Webinar Overview:

The recruitment and retention of teachers in Health Professions Education (HPE) is challenging and creates a significant amount of stress and pressure on programs to mitigate. Implementing incentives and strategies that ought to support those who teach can backfire if not delivered carefully, often unintentionally worsening the problem. For example, teaching awards, financial stipends, and feedback from learners can create perceptions of undervalue when they are impersonal, inequitable, inefficient, or poorly framed. In this presentation, I will highlight the perspectives of teachers themselves, the learners they teach, and those in educational leadership roles who supervise teachers in order to offer a holistic view of the complexities, unintended consequences, and nuanced perspectives in an attempt to elucidate helpful insight into how teachers may be better supported. The goal of this presentation is to further our understanding around how HPE teachers’ motivations can be optimized to recruit, support and retain teachers while reinforcing their engagement with, and dedication to, teaching.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of the session, participants should be able to:
 
1. List common motivators and barriers to teaching in Health Professions Education (HPE)
2. Describe ways in which teaching incentives can create unintended consequences for teacher motivation
3. Summarize how HPE programs can implement incentives in ways that meaningfully support teachers

CAME Webinars - Group registration for one delivery - 12:00pm PST: Unravelling the Complexities of Teacher Motivation from the Perspectives of Teachers, Learners and Leadership: Implications for Teacher Engagement and Recruitment

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  • Tuesday Feb 24 2026, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Online via Zoom Platform
    Canada