July 2019 Med Star Awards

Congratulations as well to our July 2019 Med Star Award winners, Dr. Qutuba Karwi, winner of the 2019 Med Star Postdoctoral Fellows Award and Mr. Bukhair Amirali, winner of the 2019 Med Star Graduate Student Award. Keep up the great work!

On September 30, 2019, please join the Indigenous Medical Dental Students Association and the Indigenous Health Initiatives Program in commemorating the experiences of Indian Residential School Survivors by wearing an orange shirt on Orange Shirt Day. 

Orange Shirt Day is also an opportunity for First Nations, local governments, schools and communities to come together in the spirit of reconciliation and hope for generations of children to come.

If you would like to order an Orange Shirt, please complete this form and submit payment no later than September 13, 2019. For inquiries about t-shirt orders, please contact Nic Gibson.

To participate in the Orange Shirt Day event in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, please contact Shannon Loutitt, Indigenous Health Education Coordinator, or register here.

IDEAS Office
Health Professions Education Scholarship Day
The Learning Journey: Student to Scholar   
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Royal Glenora Conference Centre 

The IDEAS Health Professions Education (HPE) Scholarship Day is a place for FoMD and other U of A health professional educators to locally share their scholarly work and scholarly teaching.  You are welcome to submit an abstract that you've already presented at a national or international conference if many of your FoMD colleagues may not have seen it presented before.  Likewise, we welcome new scholarly work (oral presentations and facilitated poster sessions) or curricular innovations for
which you do not yet have results (Great IDEAS).  We are trying an innovative method to share the stories of our HPE educators with stories from the educational trenches.  The Educators Lounge is a place to share innovative teaching that went really well or experiences where you tried something new and it went terribly wrong.  We want to hear your stores to learn, share, and compare.

Please join us December 5, 2019 to learn and share your scholarly work with your FoMD colleagues.

The conference goals are to:

• Develop a collaborative network of health professions educators within the FoMD and beyond
• Create a venue for sharing our HPE scholarship and scholarly teaching locally
• Increase FoMD faculty, staff, and trainees; productivity and visibility in HPE scholarship

We welcome and encourage collaboration and the sharing of as much of your good work in HPE scholarship and examples of your scholarly teaching as possible; however, to ensure that as many people as possible have the chance to participate, you can only be a session presenter once.  You can be on multiple submissions, but just present once.  

All presenters must register for the conference by October 11, 2019.

Abstract submissions close September 23, 2019.
Conference registration closes November 15, 2019.

For more information on how to register or submit an abstract, please visit the conference website at IDEAS HPE Scholarship Day.