This is a guide to some of the basic concepts and terminology of Competency Based Medical Education. Updated January 2019

Academic Coaches are asked to complete a Summary Report after each of the more formally arranged meetings with a resident.

Powerpoint of the second Academic Coaching Training Session that was hosted on August 2021.

Powerpoint of the first Academic Coaching Training Session that was hosted on June 2021.

Resources from the Academic Coaching Workshop that was hosted on May 27th, 2020.

Document to assist Program Directors in CBD to develop an assessment plan.

Link to a website that displays a series of modifiable teaching tools organized by CanMEDS Role.

These modules are designed to prepare residency teachers (faculty, senior learners, and other health care professionals) at McMaster for the transition to a competency-based model of residency education.

Suggest Guidelines for an Academic Coach. Developed March 2018

View the first Webinar of the CBME Annual Retreat 2020. Video - October 14, 2020

View the CBME Coaching, Monitoring, and Feedback: Working through the thorns and tangles webinar. Recorded June 18, 2020

Search the resource directory from the The College of Family Physicians Canada website. Updated March 2022.

Recorded November 2020

This document has been created to serve as a “cheat sheet” to CBD. It introduces concepts that can be explored further when time permits.

The CBD Coaching Model is part of an important philosophical shift in thinking about assessment and its purpose. The Royal College has developed a coaching model to support resident learning.

Recording of the Coaching in CBD: What Clinical Teachers Need To Know About Coaching in 2020 Webinar Video - June 12, 2020

This module focuses specifically on entrustability and is designed to help you for example describe why entrustment anchor criteria are more effective than traditional performance rating scale anchors.

This session is a high-level overview of all components of the CBME module including an overview of the EPA and Competence Committee Review Dashboards with a focus on triggering EPA assessment forms on both desktop and mobile versions of MedSIS. March 3, 2021

This session will focus on navigating the CBME module as a program director, competence committee member or academic coach with attention on utilizing the EPA dashboard, learner summary report and competence committee review dashboard. March 10, 2021

Dr. Robin Mackin, a General Pediatrician at Western University and former MacPeds graduate, shares her unique perspective of coaching from her experiences as an Olympic level athlete, resident, and more recently as a new faculty in these engaging podcasts: 'The Huddle: A Coaching Podcast for Medical Educators." Have a listen!

Group of Teaching Scenario Videos by Deepak Dath. Updated December 2019.

Goes through a range of objectives such as Explanation the Role of the Academic Coach in our Program and the Intro to MedSIS Dashboard and Program Tracking Tools.

This guide goes over the Foundations of Discipline Stage of Training lays the groundwork of knowledge and skills necessary to practice psychiatry, including management of relevant medical presentations and further building of psychiatric assessment skills, development of differentials, implementation of management plans for patients of low to medium complexity and performing risk assessments. Application of critical appraisal skills & presentation of relevant medical literature is also fostered.

This guide goes over the The Transition to Discipline Stage of Training which will provide residents with an orientation to our program, the university, and the local health care system. It will also provide a review and assessment of the basic skills required to begin residency training in Psychiatry.

May 27, 2020

June 2019