University of Ottawa - Office of Continuing Professional Development

Crucial Conversations for Accountability – 2 day course
2025-04-17 | University of Ottawa Roger Guindon Hall, 451 Smyth Rd, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
Crucial Conversations for Accountability – 2 day course
Thursdays April 3 and 17, 2025 | 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Deadline to register is March 31, 2025
Target Audience: All faculty members from the Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Ms. Sara Munroe
Location: in person at the FoM, Roger Guindon Hall, Room TBD
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Ces cours et le formulaire d’inscription sont en Anglais seulement.
Price (Fees include all materials and lunch)

Residents: $400 per course or $800 for all three courses ($6,700 savings!)
Registrants Affiliated with uOttawa, Faculty of Medicine: $500 per course or $1,000 for all three courses ($6,500 in savings!)
Registrants Not Affiliated with uOttawa, Faculty of Medicine: $2,500 per course or $5,000 for all three courses ($2,500 in savings!)

Cancellation Policy: Refunds less $75 administrative charge will be issued for cancellations received in writing by March 31, 2025. No refunds will be issued for cancellations received after that date.

Course Description:
MANAGING PERFORMANCE IS MORE THAN A PROCESS—IT’S ABOUT PEOPLE – Sure, there are fancy software and tools to make performance management seamless and easy. But any manager who’s struggled to close a significant performance gap or anyone who has ever walked out of an annual review feeling like they’ve just been processed rather than prioritized knows there’s nothing easy about it. Deflated and disenchanted people don’t improve, and neither do results. In reality, performance management is about addressing your people’s behavior routinely and consistently. It’s about candidly coaching through challenges and holding people accountable for lapses in behavior. It’s about identifying goals, fast-tracking careers, and in the process, improving your bottom line. These are communication skills—the difficult kind that may not come naturally, but when learned, mean the difference between managing people and managing process. The good news is these accountability skills are replicable and learnable. We’re all just a few crucial skills away from learning how to manage people and performance daily and directly.
Questions? Please contact cpd@uottawa.ca.

MAiD 2025 - Building Bridges
2025-05-01 - 2025-05-03 | Sheraton Wall Centre, 1000 Burrard St, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 2R9, Canada
MAiD 2025 – Weathering Change May 1-3, 2025 Sheraton Wall Centre Vancouver, BC 12.75 CFPC Mainpro+ Credits 12.75 RCPSC Section 1 Hours View Conference Details Register Now!
Course Description Hosted by the Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors and Providers, MAiD2025 will provide you with a high quality learning and development experience alongside MAiD experts in Canada.
Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and experience MAiD2025 — Canada’s only annual conference serving the diversity of professionals in MAiD!

ATTEND two days of sessions with experts and top-notch speakers and additional pre-conference sessions
NETWORK with colleagues and experts in MAiD
DISCOVER new and helpful resources in person and virtually
EXPAND your network, learn something new, and be inspired

Questions? Please contact Kaitlin Moberg, Lead Coordinator, MAiD 2025

The Canadian Dizziness Symposium 2025
2025-05-05 | Vancouver General Hospital, 899 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5Z 1M9, Canada
May 5, 2025
Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia
In person event
6.25 CFPC Mainpro+ credits
6.25 RCPSC Section 1 Hours
Register Today!
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Sponsorship Opportunities
Patients presenting with dizziness are challenging, whether this is acute or chronic, in the clinic or the emergency department. Dizzy patients are difficult to diagnose and manage for all clinicians, from primary care to specialists and other allied health professionals. This 1-day symposium will provide participants with a solid foundation of clinical knowledge and skills used to diagnose and treat patients with dizziness through a combination of didactic teaching, case-based learning, and clinical skills workshops.
REGISTRATION FEES – Register now!
Early Bird Deadline: April 4, 2025

Registration Type
Fee

Physician Early Bird
$360+HST

Physician Regular
$410+HST

Physician Onsite
$435+HST

Allied Healthcare Professional Early Bird
$325+HST

Allied Healthcare Professional Regular
$375+HST

Allied Healthcare Professional Onsite
$400+HST

Resident Early Bird
$325+HST

Resident Regular
$375+HST

Resident Onsite
$400+HST

Student Early Bird
$105+HST

Student Regular
$155+HST

Student Onsite
$180+HST

ACCREDITATION
This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by the University of Ottawa’s Office of Continuing Professional Development. You may claim a maximum of 6.25 hours (credits are automatically calculated).
This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by the University of Ottawa’s Office of Continuing Professional Development for up to 6.25 Mainpro+ credits.
QUESTIONS?
Please contact Laura Darbon, Lead Coordinator, The Dizziness Symposium
*Ce programme est offert en anglais uniquement*

Crucial Influencer – 1 day course
2025-05-14 08:30 - 16:00 UTC | University of Ottawa Roger Guindon Hall, 451 Smyth Rd, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
Crucial Influencer – 1 day course
Target Audience: All faculty members from the Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Ms. Sara Munroe
Location: in person at the FoM, Roger Guindon Hall, Room TBD
Wednesday May 14, 2025 | 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Deadline to register May 11, 2025
Register now!
Learn more
Ces cours et le formulaire d’inscription sont en Anglais seulement.
Price:

Residents: $400 per course or $800 for all three courses ($6,700 savings!)
Registrants Affiliated with uOttawa, Faculty of Medicine: $500 per course or $1,000 for all three courses ($6,500 in savings!)
Registrants Not Affiliated with uOttawa, Faculty of Medicine: $2,500 per course or $5,000 for all three courses ($2,500 in savings!

Fees include all materials and lunch.
Cancellation Policy: Refunds less $75 administrative charge will be issued for cancellations received in writing by May 11, 2025. No refunds will be issued for cancellations received after that date.
Course Description:
THE NEW SCIENCE OF LEADERSHIP: When facing persistent, resistant challenges, leaders often surrender to poor results or invest in change efforts that waste time and resources. And yet it’s possible to influence behavior with surprisingly predictable success. For the past thirty years, we’ve studied leaders with a proven ability to influence rapid, profound and sustainable change. And here’s what we know: human behavior is grounded in six sources of influence. Effective leaders know how to leverage and apply these sources to influence real results. Influencer goes beyond corporate perks and charismatic personalities to teach a method for changing ingrained human behavior. Leaders learn how to achieve better results by changing human habits that are extraordinarily difficult to alter—especially those that mire down teams and organizations. Drawing on the skills of the world’s best change agents and five decades of social-science research, Influencer teaches why people do what they do and how to help them act differently.
Questions? Please contact cpd@uottawa.ca.

Update in Dermatology
2025-05-15 | Ontario
Update in Dermatology
May 15, 2025
The Ottawa Conference and Event Centre, Ottawa, Ontario
Hybrid Conference
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Sponsorship Opportunities
Early bird registration ends April 25, 2024 – register early and save!
The University of Ottawa, Office of Continuing Professional Development and the University of Ottawa, Division of Dermatology are proud to offer the 1-day course in Dermatology for primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, residents and other interested primary care providers. This course will provide education in dermatology focusing on practical diagnosis and management. There will also be updates on the latest dermatology treatment options and newest discoveries in patient care. The speakers are drawn from the teaching faculty of the University of Ottawa Division of Dermatology and Community Dermatologists.
Questions? Please contact Kassaundra Black, Lead Coordinator.
*This course is offered in English only

The Ottawa Hospital's Biennial HIV Updates 2025
2025-05-22 18:30 - 21:00 | The Westin Ottawa, 11 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N9H4
The Ottawa Hospital’s Biennial HIV Updates 2025
May 22, 2025 | 18:00- 21:00 EST
The Westin Hotel, Ontario Room
11 Colonel By Dr., Ottawa
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There is no registration fee to attend this conference.
This course is intended to provide family physicians and other health-care providers with relevant and recent information about approaches to HIV prevention and the management of patients who are living with HIV. This course is a 3-hour event and consists of 4 presentations tailored towards family physicians, pharmacists and nurses. The presenters are experienced HIV Specialists who currently work in The Division of Infectious Diseases at The Ottawa Hospital.
Accreditation
This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by the University of Ottawa’s Office of Continuing Professional Development. You may claim a maximum of 2.0 hours (credits are automatically calculated).
This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by the University of Ottawa’s Office of Continuing Professional Development for up to 2.0 Mainpro+ credits.

Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue
2025-06-12 | University of Ottawa Roger Guindon Hall, 451 Smyth Rd, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
Date/Time: Thursday, June 12, 2025 | 9:00AM to 4:00PM
Location: Roger Guindon Hall, FoM – Room TBD
Facilitators: Dr. Hilary Writer
Target Audience: All faculty members at the FoM
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Registration fee:

Residents: $400
Registrants Affiliated with uOttawa, Faculty of Medicine: $500
Registrants Not Affiliated with uOttawa, Faculty of Medicine: $2,500

Deadline to register is May 8, 2025
Course description:
Crucial Conversations is a leadership course that teaches skills for creating alignment and agreement by fostering open dialogue around high-stakes, emotional, or risky topics—at all levels of your organization. By learning how to speak and be heard (and encouraging others to do the same), you’ll begin to surface the best ideas, make the highest-quality decisions, and then act on your decisions with unity and commitment.
Questions? Please contact cpd@uottawa.ca.

Allergy and Clinical Immunology Update for Primary Care
2025-09-19 | Sala San Marco, 215 Preston St, Ottawa, Ontario, K1R 7R1, Canada
Allergy and Clinical Immunology Update for Primary Care
September 19, 2025
In person
Sala San Marco Conference Center
215 Preston St, Ottawa ON K1R 7R1
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Join us for a one-day, high-impact medical education conference focused on the latest advances in Allergy and Clinical Immunology tailored for primary care providers. This event will provide practical, evidence-based updates on the diagnosis, management, and referral of common allergic and immunologic conditions encountered in primary care. Expert speakers will address topics such as food allergies, asthma, atopic dermatitis, drug allergies, immunodeficiencies, and the evolving role of biologics. Through interactive sessions and case-based discussions, participants will gain valuable insights to enhance patient care and improve clinical outcomes.
ACCREDITATION
This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by the University of Ottawa’s Office of Continuing Professional Development. You may claim a maximum of 6.50 hours (credits are automatically calculated).
This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by the University of Ottawa’s Office of Continuing Professional Development for up to 6.50 Mainpro+ credits.
OVERALL LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this course participants will be able to:

Apply current best practices in the diagnosis, management, and prevention of allergic and immunologic conditions across age groups, using evidence-informed strategies relevant to everyday clinical practice.
Enhance diagnostic accuracy and clinical decision-making by distinguishing between true allergic disease and common mimics, while recognizing when to initiate investigations or specialist referral.
Strengthen confidence in managing complex or evolving clinical scenarios through the application of updated guidelines, therapeutic advances, and critical appraisal of misinformation in allergy and immunology.

QUESTIONS?
Please contact cpd@uottawa.ca.

Endocrinology and Diabetes Update for Primary Care
2025-10-03 | St. Elias Conference Centre, 750 Ridgewood Avenue, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Endocrinology and Diabetes Update for Primary Care
October 3, 2025
St. Elias Centre
750 Ridgewood Ave, Ottawa ON K1V 6N1
In person conference
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Register now!
COURSE DESCRIPTION
University of Ottawa, Office of Continuing Professional Development and the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, TOH, are proud to offer this 1-day in person course in Endocrinology and Diabetes for primary care physicians. This popular course serves as a refresher of current guidelines and standards for the work-up and management of common endocrine disorders and diabetes therapies.
OVERALL LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of the educational activity, participants will be able to:

Outline approaches to diagnosing common endocrine disorders
Prescribe new therapies for diabetes and endocrine disorders
Identify patients who require specialized care by an endocrinologist etc.

QUESTIONS
Please contact cpd@uottawa.ca.

2025 Ottawa Curriculum for Perinatal Mental Health
2025-10-17 | The Ottawa Hospital, Civic Campus, 1053 Carling Ave, Ottawa, Ontario, K1Y4E9, Canada
2025 Ottawa Curriculum for Perinatal Mental Health
Friday, October 17, 2025
The Ottawa Hospital, Civic Campus, Amphitheatre
1053 Carling Ave, Ottawa, Ontario, K1Y4E9
Register now!
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Early bird registration ends September 19, 2025 – register early and save!

The University of Ottawa, Office of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and the Department of Psychiatry are proud to present this 1/2-day hybrid course at The Ottawa Civic Hospital, Amphitheatre.

The focus of this year’s course is on Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders, with updates and clinical applications of the new Canadian Perinatal Mental Health guidelines. In live seminars, you will hear directly from perinatal mental health experts on how to identify, support, and treat pregnant and lactating individuals in today’s complex healthcare environment. The morning closes with a comprehensive panel of community resource providers to showcase their integral roles in the stepped care model. There will also be the opportunity to ask questions directly to perinatal psychiatrists.
This course will be of interest to ALL perinatal care providers, including obstetricians, family doctors, psychiatrists, midwives, nurses, doulas, social workers, occupational therapists, psychotherapists, lactation consultants, and learners.

Questions? Please contact cpd@uottawa.ca.
*This symposium is available in English only*

2026 Mature Women’s Health Conference
2026-02-06 - 2026-02-07 | Brookstreet Hotel, 525 Legget Drive, Ottawa, ON, K2K2W2, Canada
2026 Mature Women’s Health
February 6 & 7, 2026
Brookstreet Hotel, Kanata, ON
In person event
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Registration now OPEN!
This two-day academic conference is designed to provide family physicians and healthcare professionals with comprehensive, evidence-informed updates on the evolving landscape of mature women’s health. Through expert-led lectures, case-based discussions, and interdisciplinary dialogue, participants will explore current best practices and emerging research relevant to the prevention, diagnosis, and management of health concerns in women during midlife and beyond.
Sponsorship opportunities are available, please contact Kristen McCoy, Lead Coordinator.
Questions? Please contact cpd@uottawa.ca.

45th Annual Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Conference
2026-06-06 08:00 - 2026-06-09 17:00 | Ontario
Save the Date!
45th Annual Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Conference
June 6th – 9th, 2026
Delta by Marriott St. John’s Hotel and Conference Centre, St. John’s, Newfoundland
The Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is a national organization of child and adolescent psychiatrists and other professionals in Canada, committed to advancing the mental health of children, youth and families through promotion of excellence in care, advocacy, education, research and collaboration with other professionals. Join us in June 2026 for our annual conference!
More information will be available soon! To be notified when registration opens, please contact cpd@uottawa.ca.
