Centre for Faculty Development

Leadership in medicine is often framed in terms of skills and competencies. Yet many of the challenges clinicians face require something deeper: character. This session introduces character-based leadership as a complementary and necessary lens for understanding leadership in health professions education and clinical practice.

Drawing on the Leader Character framework, the session will explore how character-based leadership differs from competency-focused models, with particular attention to courage as a core dimension of character. The session will share insights from a narrative study exploring acts of courage in medicine, offering concrete stories that illuminate how clinicians recognize and enact courage. Participants will be invited to reflect on these narratives and consider how courage might be cultivated and enacted within their own professional and leadership roles.

👤 Speaker: Dr. Jacqueline Torti
🗓️ Date: March 10, 2026
⏰ Time: 12PM - 1PM ET
💻 Location: Online
🔗 Register: https://centreforfacdev.ca/events/?eventtemplate=522-character-and-courage-foundations-of-leadership-in-medicine

Best Practices in Education Rounds (BPER) are co-hosted by the CFD, The Wilson Centre and Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education (CACHE).

Our upcoming workshop 'Our Evolving Professional Values' engages participants in reflective activities and discussions about desirable and undesirable professional behaviours and the bi-directional relationships that exist between these behaviours, healthcare professional wellness, and the creation of psychologically and culturally safe environments.

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to describe the characteristics of psychologically and culturally safe healthcare environments; analyse the relationships that exist between such environments and individual wellness and adherence to professional values; and, identify knowledge and skills required to support professional values in their own careers and institutions and to develop a learning plan to support their acquisition.

👤 Facilitated by: Pier Bryden, Meeta Patel
🗓️ Date: March 2, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET
💻 Location: Online
🔗 Register: https://centreforfacdev.ca/events/?eventtemplate=1-our-evolving-professional-values-using-positionality-and-relationship-to-ensure-inclusive-environments-for-all

*TEACHING FOR TRANSFORMATION CONFERENCE EARLY BIRD DEADLINE: JAN 31ST*

At the 2026 Teaching for Transformation Conference, we focus on trust as principle, purpose, and action. By connecting with our communities, honouring lived experience, and drawing from evidence, we aim to create learning spaces that transform not only education, but also our
health system toward a more trustworthy ideal.

The conference will feature speakers including:

Aaron Orkin
Aman Sium
Ed Conners
Kathryn Parker
Lindsay Baker
Maya Goldenberg
Munira Abdulwasi
Nicole Woods
Randy Boyagoda
Sabrina Deutsch Salamon
Stella Ng
Stephanie Nixon
Yasser Ismail

The TforT Conference is committed to financial accessibility. We have been working on ways to ensure that anyone who wants to attend can do so, and our approach has continued to evolve. If you have previously reached out about financial accessibility, or if you require support and none of our existing discounted registration rates are feasible, please contact us (again) at [email protected]. For those who are able, registration at our standard rates helps make this flexibility possible. However, if your financial circumstances have changed since you registered, please contact us as soon as possible so we can work with you.

🗓️ Date: March 9-11, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:00AM-4:00PM ET
💻 Location: Online or In-Person
🔗 Register: https://lnkd.in/gJ7ERXB7

Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education (CACHE)