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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!

Date: January 28, 2025 – This webinar will be delivered in English

Presentation 1: 12:00pm-1:00pm Eastern, (9:00am-10:00am Pacific)

Presenter: Dr. Rola Ajjawi, University of British Columbia

Biography: Rola Ajjawi is Professor of Medical Education in the Department of Surgery and Scientist at the Centre for Health Education Scholarship, at the University of British Columbia where she leads several programs of research into feedback and workplace learning cultures, student failure and success, and latterly belonging in health professions education. Rola is Deputy Editor of the journal Medical Education and chair of the International Association for Health Professions Education (AMEE) Research Committee. She was awarded a Karolinska Institutet Fellowship in 2021. She is the lead guest editor of a special issue of Teaching in Higher Education: Reconsidering the Role of Authenticity in Assessment in Higher Education and is editing a virtual special issue of the journal Medical Education on Gender Equity in Health Professions Education.

Overview: The isolation of the pandemic, appeals to equity and wellness, technological acceleration and widening access have contributed to the post-pandemic resurgence of interest in student belonging. Belonging generally alludes to feeling accepted, valued, and respected by others. It is linked to positive self-perceptions of social acceptance, academic success, persistence and internal motivation, and is found to buffer against stress and burnout. Yet there’s a dark side to belonging which is often underexplored. In this talk I will challenge the notion of belonging as prosocial, and show how a focus on belonging might have unintended consequences particularly for underrepresented medical students.

Learning outcomes:

  1. Identify different ways of conceptualizing belonging.
  2. Examine factors that might enable or inhibit belonging for diverse students.
  3. Discuss possible strategies and implications for fostering a holistic sense of belonging.

 

EST Session: What does it mean to belong in medical school?

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  • Tuesday Jan 28 2025, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Online via Zoom Platform
    Canada