Posted on May 2, 2023
SSC Leadership and EDI Workshop
Saturday June 10, 2023, 8:45 am – 5:00 pm
The Westin Wall Centre 3099 Corvette Way Richmond, BC V6X 4K3
- Sessional payment is provided for physicians: $171.05 per hour for up to 6 hours.
- A one-night hotel room at the Westin Wall Center Richmond is provided for physicians if travelling more than 50 km (one way). See travel guidelines.
Registration for this event has now closed.
The University of British Columbia Division of Continuing Professional Development (UBC CPD) is fully accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Continuing Medical Education (CACME) to provide study credits for continuing medical education for physicians. This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and has been approved by UBC CPD for up to 4.75 MOC Section 1 Group Learning credits. Each physician should claim only those credits accrued through participation in the activity.
Join other physician leaders for an insightful and informative workshop:
- Explore the hallmarks of successful, effective leadership
- Get tools to help manage workplace conflicts such as discrimination and bullying through an equity, diversity, and inclusion lens
- Develop an appreciation of how blinding first impressions can be, and how unspoken (often unconscious) biases can also pose a barrier to recruiting and retaining a diverse healthy workforce
- Learn to work through unconscious biases
Keynote Speaker
Dr Sanjiv Chopra, MD, Keynote Speaker: Read more>
Leadership Lessons from the Pages of History and Contemporary Times
- Harvard Medical School Professor of Medicine and former Faculty Dean for Continuing Medical Education
- James Tullis Firm Chief, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston
Workshop Agenda
8:45am–9:45am
- Breakfast and Registration
9:45am–10:00am
- Traditional Welcome and Land Acknowledgement
- Opening Remarks: Dr Sarah Barrett and Dr Ka Wai Cheung (Organizing Committee Members)
10:00am–10:35am
- Leadership Activity Part 1: Engage in a collaborative, small group brainstorming on the hallmarks of successful and effective leadership with session leader Dr Sanjiv Chopra
10:35am–10:50am
- Health Break
10:50am–11:20am
- Leadership Activity Part 2: Explore different perspectives on leadership by rotating through stations featuring the brainstormed responses from the leadership activity Part 1
11:20am–12:20pm
- Keynote presentation & Q&A - Dr Sanjiv Chopra: "Leadership Lessons from the Pages of History and Contemporary Times"
12:20pm-1:20pm
- Lunch Break
1:20pm–3:20pm
- Conflict Theatre: will equip physician participants with a toolkit that will help manage workplace conflicts such as discrimination and bullying through an equity, diversity, and inclusion lens.
- Dr Naznin Virji-Babul, UBC Associate Professor, Senior Advisor to the Provost on Women and Gender-Diverse Faculty at UBC
- Dr Tom Scholte Professor, Academic Co-director of the Academic Leadership Development Program at UBC
3:20pm–3:40pm
- Health Break
3:40pm–4:40pm
- Reflection activities: Do we have Biases? Acknowledge our tendencies to form biases and to recognize how they may negatively impact our behaviour in the workplace. Through a series of reflection activities, physicians will appreciate how blinding first impressions can be and how implicit biases can pose a barrier to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce.
- Dr Sarah Barrett
- Dr Ka Wai Cheung
- Dr Faisal Khosa
4:40pm–5:00pm
- Closing Remarks: Dr Faisal Khosa (Organizing Commitee member)
Background
Both physicians and patients experience racism and inequities that then affects the ability to provide care, and for patients the ability to receive care, in safe and respectful environments.
Medical leaders have a unique responsibility to recognize and help mitigate bias and inequity in each workplace.
As human beings, physicians also have the potential to form biases.
Through a series of reflection activities, physician participants will grow to appreciate how blinding first impressions can be, how unspoken (often unconscious) biases can also pose a barrier to recruiting and retaining a diverse healthy workforce, and learn how to work through these unconscious biases.
The Disclosure Statements Summary can be found here. Apart from this, there are no additional requirements from UBC.
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