University of Ottawa - Office of Continuing Professional Development

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!
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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.

Foundations of Leadership for Clinicians
2025-04-24 09:00 - 16:00, 2025-03-27 09:00 - 16:00, 2025-01-23 09:00 - 16:00 | University of Ottawa Roger Guindon Hall, 451 Smyth Rd, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
PHASE 1 Foundations of Leadership for Clinicians – Winter/Spring 2025

Target Audience: All faculty members from the Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Mr. Ayoub Chobah
Location: in person at the FoM – Roger Guindon Hall – Room TBD
Price: $400 Early Bird deadline ends December 19, 2024 (course value is $3000 – 80% discount)
$600 December 20, 2024 to January 16, 2025 – included all materials and lunch
(formerly known as Essentials for Academic Leadership)
*This course is offered in English only
Thursday January 23, 2025 from 8:30AM to 3:30PM
Thursday March 27, 2025 from 8:30AM to 3:30PM
Thursday April 24, 2025 from 8:30AM to 3:30PM
Thursday May 15, 2025 from 8:30AM to 3:30PM
Thursday May 29, 2025 from 8:30AM to 3:30PM
Cancellation Policy: Refunds less $75 administrative charge will be issued for cancellations received in writing by January 16, 2025. No refunds will be issued for cancellations received after that date.
Course Description:
Foundations of Leadership is a series of 5 workshops aimed at providing clinicians and non-clinicians with tools to successfully lead and manage teams.
Participants will develop an understanding and skills of how to:

Lead a process rather than manage it
Manage various types of team members effectively and deal with conflict
Get the most out of team members and keep them motivated
Introduce and manage change

Participants will also be apprised of legal implications and emerging trends as it relates to managing team members. Completion of the program will be acknowledged by a certificate in leadership from the Office of Continuing Professional Development.
Questions? Please contact cpd@uottawa.ca.

Crucial Conversations for Accountability – 2 day course
2025-04-17, 2025-04-03, 2025-04-03 - 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
Register now!
Learn more
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.

2025 Rheumatology for Primary Care Webinar Series: Diagnosis and Management of Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) and Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA)
2025-03-24 12:00 - 13:15 | Ontario
Register now!
2025 Rheumatology for Primary Care Webinar Series
January 13 | January 27 | February 10 | March 3 | March 24 2025
12:00PM – 1:15PM Eastern Time Zone
The Office of CPD and the Ottawa Hospital’s Division of Rheumatology has put together a series of webinars for family physicians focusing on Rheumatology.  The Webinar series clarifies the rheumatology referral process, provides information on community-based resources for arthritis care, and outlines when to order common rheumatology labs and how to interpret their results. The Webinar series will incorporates participant questions (collected before each session) related to the topic presented to ensure each presentation is as relevant and useful to the audience as possible. The format will be a didactic presentation using case-based scenarios followed by a question-and-answer period.
Register for the full series or individual sessions!
Early Bird Deadline: December 16, 2024

Full Series Early Bird Rates Physician and Other Healthcare Professionals: $120 +HST
Full Series Early Bird Rates Resident: $80 +HST
Full Series Regular Rates Physician and Other Healthcare Professionals: $165 +HST
Full Series Regular Rates Resident: $100 +HST
Individual Sessions: $50 +HST

Session Schedule

March 24, 2025
Diagnosis and Management of Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) and Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA)
Dr. Raymond Chu

Questions?
Please contact Kristen McCoy, Lead Coordinator, Event Management

2025 Rheumatology for Primary Care Webinar Series: Diagnosis and Evidence-based Management of Gout in Primary Care
2025-03-03 12:00 - 13:15 | Ontario
Register now!
2025 Rheumatology for Primary Care Webinar Series
January 13 | January 27 | February 10 | March 3 | March 24 2025
12:00PM – 1:15PM Eastern Time Zone
The Office of CPD and the Ottawa Hospital’s Division of Rheumatology has put together a series of webinars for family physicians focusing on Rheumatology.  The Webinar series clarifies the rheumatology referral process, provides information on community-based resources for arthritis care, and outlines when to order common rheumatology labs and how to interpret their results. The Webinar series will incorporates participant questions (collected before each session) related to the topic presented to ensure each presentation is as relevant and useful to the audience as possible. The format will be a didactic presentation using case-based scenarios followed by a question-and-answer period.
Register for the full series or individual sessions!
Early Bird Deadline: December 16, 2024

Full Series Early Bird Rates Physician and Other Healthcare Professionals: $120 +HST
Full Series Early Bird Rates Resident: $80 +HST
Full Series Regular Rates Physician and Other Healthcare Professionals: $165 +HST
Full Series Regular Rates Resident: $100 +HST
Individual Sessions: $50 +HST

Session Schedule

Monday, March 3, 2025
Diagnosis and Evidence-based Management of Gout in Primary Care
Dr. Priyanka Chandratre
March 24, 2025
Diagnosis and Management of Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) and Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA)
Dr. Raymond Chu

Questions?
Please contact Kristen McCoy, Lead Coordinator, Event Management

2025 Rheumatology for Primary Care Webinar Series: Autoimmune Connective Tissue Diseases: A Primary Care Physician’s Primer on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) and Sjogren’s Syndrome
2025-02-10 12:00 - 13:15 | Ontario
Register now!
2025 Rheumatology for Primary Care Webinar Series
January 13 | January 27 | February 10 | March 3 | March 24 2025
12:00PM – 1:15PM Eastern Time Zone
The Office of CPD and the Ottawa Hospital’s Division of Rheumatology has put together a series of webinars for family physicians focusing on Rheumatology.  The Webinar series clarifies the rheumatology referral process, provides information on community-based resources for arthritis care, and outlines when to order common rheumatology labs and how to interpret their results. The Webinar series will incorporates participant questions (collected before each session) related to the topic presented to ensure each presentation is as relevant and useful to the audience as possible. The format will be a didactic presentation using case-based scenarios followed by a question-and-answer period.
Register for the full series or individual sessions!
Early Bird Deadline: December 16, 2024

Full Series Early Bird Rates Physician and Other Healthcare Professionals: $120 +HST
Full Series Early Bird Rates Resident: $80 +HST
Full Series Regular Rates Physician and Other Healthcare Professionals: $165 +HST
Full Series Regular Rates Resident: $100 +HST
Individual Sessions: $50 +HST

Session Schedule

Monday, February 10, 2025
Autoimmune Connective Tissue Diseases: A Primary Care Physician’s Primer on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) and Sjogren’s Syndrome
Dr. Maysoon Eldoma
Monday, March 3, 2025
Diagnosis and Evidence-based Management of Gout in Primary Care
Dr. Priyanka Chandratre
March 24, 2025
Diagnosis and Management of Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) and Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA)
Dr. Raymond Chu

Questions?
Please contact Kristen McCoy, Lead Coordinator, Event Management

Crucial Series: Getting Things Done
2025-02-05 08:30 - 16:00 | University of Ottawa Roger Guindon Hall, 451 Smyth Rd, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
Getting Things Done – 1 day course
Wednesday February 5, 2025 | 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Deadline to register is February 2, 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
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.
The Getting Things Done® (GTD®) methodology was developed 30 years ago by New York Times bestselling author David Allen. The course teaches skills to manage the constant flow of requests, tasks, and interruptions people face at all levels of the organization. By learning how to capture, clarify, and organize incoming requests, people are more likely to make strategic decisions about where to invest their time and energy, focus on the right priorities, and prevent critical projects from slipping. When used consistently and collectively, GTD skills also give teams a “way of working” for improved results. The in-person experience of Getting Things Done is an engaging classroom course rich with peer discussion, real-time practice, and group support and coaching. Delivered in one day, this in-person course offers the best in traditional learning and development.
Cancellation Policy: Refunds less $75 administrative charge will be issued for cancellations received in writing by February 2, 2025. No refunds will be issued for cancellations received after that date.
Questions? Please contact cpd@uottawa.ca.

2025 Rheumatology for Primary Care Webinar Series: Who, What, When, and How to Refer to Rheumatology
2025-01-27 12:00 - 13:15 | Ontario
Register now!
2025 Rheumatology for Primary Care Webinar Series
January 13 | January 27 | February 10 | March 3 | March 24 2025
12:00PM – 1:15PM Eastern Time Zone
The Office of CPD and the Ottawa Hospital’s Division of Rheumatology has put together a series of webinars for family physicians focusing on Rheumatology.  The Webinar series clarifies the rheumatology referral process, provides information on community-based resources for arthritis care, and outlines when to order common rheumatology labs and how to interpret their results. The Webinar series will incorporates participant questions (collected before each session) related to the topic presented to ensure each presentation is as relevant and useful to the audience as possible. The format will be a didactic presentation using case-based scenarios followed by a question-and-answer period.
Register for the full series or individual sessions!
Early Bird Deadline: December 16, 2024

Full Series Early Bird Rates Physician and Other Healthcare Professionals: $120 +HST
Full Series Early Bird Rates Resident: $80 +HST
Full Series Regular Rates Physician and Other Healthcare Professionals: $165 +HST
Full Series Regular Rates Resident: $100 +HST
Individual Sessions: $50 +HST

Session Schedule

Monday, January 27, 2025
Who, What, When, and How to Refer to Rheumatology
Dr. Julie D’Aoust
Monday, February 10, 2025
Autoimmune Connective Tissue Diseases: A Primary Care Physician’s Primer on Sys-temic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) and Sjogren’s Syndrome
Dr. Maysoon Eldoma
Monday, March 3, 2025
Diagnosis and Evidence-based Management of Gout in Primary Care
Dr. Priyanka Chandratre
March 24, 2025
Diagnosis and Management of Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) and Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA)
Dr. Raymond Chu

Questions?
Please contact Kristen McCoy, Lead Coordinator, Event Management

Essentials for Practice Improvement for Ontario Physicians: Cohort 1
2024-04-26 - 2024-05-31 | Virtual Program
Quality Improvement (QI) for busy family physicians: making changes YOU care about!
This interactive, experiential learning program is designed for Ontario family physicians, specialists and their teams who are looking to advance their quality improvement skills and those who are working on their CPSO QI/QA practice improvement plans. This course is designed for clinicians who want to improve patient care and outcomes, achieve efficiency, reduce care costs or advocate for a change that is needed in your setting.
April 26, 2024, May 17, 2024 and May 31, 2024
Virtual Conference
9 RCPSC Hourse | 9 Mainpro+ Credits
Plus, the opportunity to earn up to 34+ additional credits for independent work through CPSO!
Course Website
Register Now!

Register Now! Register Before March 20, 2024 and Save!
Early Bird Rate: $435 + HST per person
Regular Rate: $450 +HST per person

Group rates available when registering 3+ individuals from the same organization, please contact cpd@uottawa.ca for more information.

Who should attend? (Experience with Quality Improvement: Limited to None)
Ontario family physicians and specialists and their teams who are looking to advance their quality improvement skills and those who are working on their CPSO QI/QA practice improvement plans. This course is designed for clinicians who want to improve patient care and outcomes, achieve efficiency, reduce care costs or advocate for a change that is needed in your setting.
This is an interactive, experiential learning program designed to provide a practical approach to quality improvement through skill development, the identification of practice data sources, leveraging your EMR and the application of QI tools to develop a practice improvement plan and its implementation.
There will be 3 virtual 3 hour sessions with didactic and interactive learning, breakout sessions with trained QI coaches, as well as practice enhancement facilitation by OntarioMD + other QI support between sessions to assist in application of knowledge gained.
By the end of the program, the learner will be able to:
Complete a QI practice plan (such as CPSO or QIIP)
Identify data sources for use in practice assessment
Prioritize an area(s) for improvement in practice
Develop an approach to implementing a beneficial change
Assess the impact of the improvement change
Establish a system to enable ongoing and future improvements

Questions?
Please contact Laura Darbon, Lead Coordinator, Essentials in Practice Improvement for Ontario Physicians
