Health Professional Education Course Descriptions

Health Professional Education Seminar Series (formerly HS 9611)

This is a seminar series for students and faculty in the HPE field. It is typically held every two weeks over the fall and winter terms. Students and faculty have the opportunity to present work-in-progress for formative feedback from the Health Professional Education Community of Practice Group. This seminar series offers the opportunity for members of the group to present and discuss their scholarly work, prior to presenting at conferences, or to other groups. MSc students take part in at least one presentation (e.g. thesis proposal, work-in-progress, practice talk as part of preparation for a conference presentation or defense preparation). PhD students present their thesis proposals here, once approved by their committees, and are encouraged to present other work-in-progress. Faculty members are invited to share their work in this venue. Attendance is mandatory for MSc and PhD students in the first year of the program and highly recommended thereafter.

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Seminar Instructor & Manager: Dr. Stella Ng & Lisa McCorquodale
Seminar Scheduled: Fall & Winter Term, Mondays, 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Room 1549, Elborn College
Winter Term Dates: Tentative Special Event Jan. 11 @ 9:00am, Jan. 28, Feb. 25, Mar. 18, Apr. 1

HS 9610 – Health Professional Education: Current Topics, Perspectives and Research Issues

This seminar course investigates current topics in health professional education and is reading intensive, interactive, and dialogic. Faculty members and students from across the field join the course to facilitate discussions on special topics and current research in the field. Topics may include but are not limited to: principles of adult and lifelong learning, clinical reasoning, critical thinking, reflective practice, client/family centred practice, communities of practice, applied ethics, evidence-based practice, relational learning and mentorship, collaboration and teamwork, interprofessional education, critical perspectives in professional education, humanities in health professional education, leadership, and learning organizations.
Note: Not offered 2012 - 2013

HS 9710a – Reflective Practice and Professional Knowledge in Health and Social Care

Reflective practice is perhaps the most popular theory influencing professional education in the last 20 years. This course critically examines the historical and contemporary discourses surrounding the theory of reflective practice and the implications for professional education. The course also investigates the broader notion of epistemologies of practice and considers the ways in which reflection, critical reflection, reflective practice, and dialogue shape the cultivation of professional knowledge in health and human service professions. Reflection in this course is examined along a continuum that includes narrative and aesthetic modes of reflection, intentional cognitive reflection, embodied or tacit reflection and critical reflexivity as they relate to professional knowledge. Attention is drawn to epistemologies of practice in light of traditional divides between theory and practice, and to the role of dialogue in knowledge exchange within communities of practice.

0.5 credit course
Course Instructor & Manager: Dr. Anne Kinsella
Course Scheduled: Fall Term Term, Mondays, 9:30am - 12:30pm, Room 1008, Elborn College
*Please note an additional date on October 5th from 9:30am - 12:30pm

HS 9710 Course Outline 2012 - 2013

HS 9711– Critical and Transdisciplinary Studies in Health Professional Education

This course provides a critical examination of issues and research affecting the education of health professionals across the disciplines. The interdisciplinary and client-centred focus generates thought about pedagogical and curricular issues embedded within topics such as illness and marginality, the politics of health care policy, transcultural health care, disability culture, gender and the politics of care. The course will interest graduate students in health science and education programs who are interested in the health professions.
Note: Not offered 2012 - 2013

Health Professional Education Comprehensive Exam (PhD Requirement)

All Candidates in the PhD program are required to pass a comprehensive examination. The examination includes both an oral and written component. In the oral examination, students will be expected to demonstrate a breadth of knowledge about classic and contemporary theories in professional education, and to situate their proposed work in the broader field. The written examination requires two essays: one framed around the methodological approach adopted in the study and the other framed around theoretical bodies of literature relevant to the proposed study.