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.
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 styles in the 21st Century: Changing with needs of our profession and patients
- 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 (details to come)
11:20am–12:00pm
- Keynote presentation - Dr Sanjiv Chopra: "Leadership styles in the 21st Century: Changing with needs of our profession and patients"
12:00pm-1:00pm
- Lunch Break
1:00pm–3:00pm
- 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
3:00pm–3:20pm
- Health Break
3:20pm–4:20pm
- 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
4:20pm–4:40pm
- 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.
Hosted by the Specialist Services Committee
