This scorecard from Resident Doctors of Canada highlights how mentorship is an essential component of the resident experience. It also looks at the status of mentorship in Canada, who should be recruited to be a mentor and the five mentorship essentials.
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This position paper on mentorship in residency from Resident Doctors of Canada highlights the importance of mentorship as a component of the resident experience. The paper also looks at mentorship’s status in Canada; its benefits, challenges and barriers; and the five essentials of mentorship.
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The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada’s Competence by Design program highlights the importance of coaching to resident learning and progression. The Coaching to Competence module uses the RX-OCR coaching process to identify gaps in skills and knowledge, then close them through practice, reflection and learning opportunities.
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Mentorship in health care Policies, standards and best practices
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada’s Competence by Design (CBD) program is based on competency-based education and aims to improve training for medical specialists in Canada. The benefits of CBD include clear learning expectations for trainees, opportunities for feedback and coaching, and feedback for lifelong learning.
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Mentorship in health care Policies, standards and best practices
This video from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada summarizes the Competence by Design coaching model for resident learning and progression. The model includes three inter-related elements: resident learning, coaching in the moment and coaching over time.
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Mentorship in health care Policies, standards and best practices
This web page from the Fatigue Risk Management Task Force provides residents and educators with resources to address fatigue: a workplace health and safety issue that can affect patient safety. The main principles discussed on this page are acknowledge, act and adapt.
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Establishing a wellness mindset Policies, standards and best practices
This web page from Resident Doctors of Canada’s offers links to policies on behaviour and harassment, along with related resources from medical faculties in Canada.
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Psychologically safe learning Policies, standards and best practices
This video from Resident Doctors of Canada features Dr. Albert Wu, an international expert on negative outcomes. He shares his expertise on debriefing with physicians after negative outcomes.
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Psychologically safe learning Policies, standards and best practices
Resident Doctors of Canada’s infographic on what it takes to become a resident doctor features advice from residents across Canada. The topic areas include humility, staying organized, continuity of care, confidence and reflectiveness.
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This infographic from Resident Doctors of Canada offers advice for wellness during residency, looking at areas such as sleep, nutrition and stress reduction. Tips and tricks include getting adequate sleep before anticipated sleep loss, scheduling nutrition breaks throughout the workday and maintaining contact with social support networks.
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Fostering self-determination, motivation and resilience can play a major role in learning environments that support the well-being of medical students. This research paper examines the needs of medical students through the lens of self-determination theory to foster supportive learning environments.
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Psychologically safe learning Establishing a wellness mindset Relationships Resilience
Addressing the culture of medicine to create a culture of wellness begins with eliminating negating/diminishing language and promoting pro-wellness language. This infographic by Resident Doctors of Canada provides examples of how pro-wellness language helps medical students and professionals feel supported and thankful, and creates a sense of solidarity.
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Establishing a wellness mindset Psychologically safe learning