Submission ID 77585
| Code | OA-5-4 |
|---|---|
| At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to: | |
| Category | Medical Education |
| Type | Oral |
| Will the presenter be a: | Early Career Faculty - (Less than 7 years of practice) |
| Title | Cpd Diversity Audit: Tracking and Reflecting for Advancing Justice |
| Background/Purpose | Representation matters in teaching and learning. This is true also in CPD where who is chosen to present a topic reflects who is seen as knowledgeable and spotlighted. We decided to put our money where our mouth is and see what a years' worth of effort in deliberately seeking representative planning committees in profession, racialized, and other equity-deserving groups would do for the representativeness and contextual representativeness of CPD offerings. |
| Methods | We performed a content analysis of our 2019-2022 CPD offerings to see the extent that our planning committees and educational materials in our programs reflected the diversity of Canadian healthcare. The results were statistically analysed. |
| Results | This study presented descriptive statistics that show that within a year of implementing these relatively low-cost processes we were able to make our CPD offerings significantly more diverse in terms of interprofessional scope, minority representation on committees, diverse representativeness in program content, as well as areas of healthcare topics. |
| Discussion | It is clear that with sustained effort that these capacity-building exercises and alterations to processes that the effort exerted and sustained has a direct outcome on the durability of gains. We paired this reflective exercise with the development of new resources, guidelines, tailored additions to planning committee member and speaker role descriptions, and the communication of clear expectations. When we followed through the implementation with speakers the result was a robust change to our CPD ecosystem, one that better represented our audience and the patients that they serve. |
| Keyword 1 | CPD |
| Keyword 2 | Equity |
| Keyword 3 | Diversity |
| Abstract content most relevant to: (check all that apply) | Continuing Professional Development (CPD) (faculty development, CME)
Other |
| Abstract Track - First Choice | Professionalism |
| Authors | Eleftherios Soleas Vivekha Kengatheran Richard van Wylick |
