Education Design Retreat


December 3 – 5, 2023
Hilton Mississauga Meadowvale
6750 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, Ontario, L5N 2L3
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Overview and Objectives
Overview
We are looking forward to welcoming more than 150 participants to our second Education Design Retreat on December 3-5, 2023. This will be comprised of educational leadership from each of Canada’s 17 departments of family medicine (both for core and enhanced skills training) including health professional educators, residents, and medical students, as well as Team Primary Care collaborators (partner professions, developmental evaluators, project collaborators (CACHE, EqHS Lab), partner organizations, Education Reform Taskforce members, and project staff and consultants.
This retreat is in ongoing service to the curriculum renewal process and our five national curriculum renewal priorities. While change stewardship is on everyone’s minds and will influence our conversations, we will be asking you once again to put on your education design hats. We have coined this event the “Working and Training Differently” Retreat.
In June, we engaged around the “Shape of Training” (i.e., What does a renewed curriculum look like as it relates to preparedness and comprehensiveness?). At this retreat, we will build on that work and explore how we can elevate interprofessional teaching and learning, health equity, and skill-building in priority areas within our renewed family medicine curricula.
We anticipate that your curriculum planning has progressed and evolved since the last time we met in June. We want to continue to build on the momentum and aim to offer an experience that stimulates learning, sharing, and design thinking, and gives you some working time to get practical with your own university group.
Objectives
What will a renewed curriculum look like (at my school)?
This retreat is where we will continue to develop and refine that question.
Good educational design is about aligning teaching, learning, and assessment with intended learning outcomes. At this retreat the primary objective is to look at how educational redesign and curricular change can nurture interprofessional teaching and learning, health equity, and skills-building in priority areas as the final three curriculum renewal priorities. Collaborating with the Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare and Education (CACHE), the Equity in Health System (EqHS) Lab, and project consultants, we will look at the theory regarding these key elements, then roll up our sleeves to make sense of key concepts and generate lots of ideas about how they can be applied to curriculum renewal including the integrating and enabling features of team-based care in promoting sustainable practice, working to top of scope, and promoting health equity.
We want you to leave with more than you brought.
Each program will have an opportunity to work on their local curriculum renewal plans with the benefit of knowledge, ideas, connections, and synergies built across the country. This will build on the work done at the first Retreat in June 2023 which focused on curriculum renewal priorities 1 and 2 and will set in motion preparation for the draft Curriculum Renewal Plans and associated peer sharing set for January 2024.
Curriculum Renewal Planning Template, which includes National Curriculum Renewal Priorities (distributed in February 2023)
Meeting you where you are in your journey.
We understand that every program is at a different place and stage of planning. There will be an opportunity to pick it up from wherever you are. Going into this Retreat, it will help to familiarize yourself once again with the Residency Training Profile and to consider how your local program realities and priorities align with or differ from this. Whether you are well along in the process of curriculum mapping or haven’t yet started, there will be an opportunity to take it the next step.
For enhanced skills participants, we want you to be thinking about how you are currently teaching and assessing areas of leadership, advocacy, and scholarship, as well as ideas and opportunities for adapting enhanced skills training relative to the renewed core curriculum.
Agenda and Logistics
Location
Address: | Hilton Mississauga Meadowvale 6750 Mississauga Road Mississauga, Ontario L5N 2L3 |
Room: | Graydon Hall (registration, main retreat room, food and beverage) |
Reception: | Greenwich Room |
Breakout Rooms: | Graydon D and Greenwich Room |
Agenda
Note: All times listed are Eastern Time (ET).
Sunday, December 3rd | Travel Day/Arrival. Welcome Reception 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. |
Monday, December 4th | Retreat Day 1 | 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. including late afternoon networking. |
Tuesday, December 5th | Retreat Day 2 | 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. |
Breakfast and Registration on Day 1 and Day 2 is between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m. |

December 2023 Education Design Retreat Agenda (Version: November 17, 2023)
Meals
December 3rd (Welcome reception): | Light fare will be provided. |
December 4th and 5th (Retreat days): | Food and beverage for breakfast, lunch, and breaks will be provided. |
There are restaurant options on site and near the hotel.
Note that hotel room service is not available.
Refer to the Policies and Forms section below for eligibility and reimbursement instructions and contact the team if you have any questions.
Attendees
- Core Family Medicine Education Design Team Leadership (5 participants per family medicine program)
- Enhanced Skills Program Director Leadership
- CFPC Health Professional Educators Group (1 representative per family medicine program)
- Team Primary Care Partner Professions
- Team Primary Care Developmental Evaluation Team
- CFPC Education Reform Taskforce
- CFPC Section of Medical Students (SOMS)
- Canadian Federation of Medical Students (CFMS)
- Fédération médicale étudiante du Québec (FMEQ)
- CFPC Section of Residents (SoR)
- Resident Doctors of Canada (RDoC)
- Fédération des médecins résidents du Québec (FMRQ)
- Society of Rural Physicians of Canada (SRPC)
- Collège des médecins du Québec
- Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education (CACHE)
- Equity in Health Systems (EqHS) Lab
- CFPC Staff, Project Team Members and Consultants
Retreat Materials
Pre-retreat reading list:
- Outcomes of Training Project Memo
- National Curriculum Renewal Planning Template, which includes National Curriculum Renewal Priorities (distributed in February 2023)
- Residency Training Profile for Family Medicine and Enhanced Skills
- Report and Recommendations of the Outcomes of Training Project
- June 2023 Education Design Retreat Proceedings Summary
- Outcomes of Training Project Webpage and related Communications Toolkit
- Building High-Performing Primary Care Systems: After a Decade of Policy Change, Is Canada “Walking the Talk?”
- Interprofessional/CACHE Article(s)
- Curriculum Renewal Guide Background & Progress Report
Post-retreat materials:
- Education Design Retreat master slide deck
- Team Primary Care - Training for Transformation
- Our Advocacy. Discover the Prescription for Primary Care
- Equity in Health Systems Lab
Policies and Forms
Please connect with the project team at [email protected] if you have any questions about booking your travel, eligible expenses, and/or claiming reimbursement.
Note that Service Canada routinely updates and adjusts expense eligibility and related reimbursement guidelines. We will communicate with retreat participants if any provisions change and post the most up-to-date guidance here on the retreat web page and in your calendar invitation.
- COVID-19 Information
- Booking and Reimbursement Guideline
- Retreat Reimbursement Form (please submit completed form and related receipts to [email protected])
Please submit your reimbursement by Friday January 5th!
Reference the Booking and Reimbursement Guideline, along with the Retreat Reimbursement Form above, paying close attention to the eligibility and instructions for receipts. Please submit your completed form and receipts to [email protected] by no later than Friday January 5th, 2024.
OPTIONAL but strongly recommended Complete the Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) sign up form that was emailed to you and submit directly to the secure and private [email protected] email. This is a one-time requirement. If you’ve done this before for other activities like Committee work, you do not need to do it again. If an EFT form is not on file or submitted, reimbursement will be issued by cheque. The completed EFT form must go to [email protected].
Social Media & Contact Us
Social media
We encourage all attendees to post about their experience at the retreat and share any photos they may take. Please be sure to tag CFPC, using the appropriate social media handle (see below). You can also use the hashtags #futurefp and #otp.
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Contact us
Connect with the team at [email protected].