Congratulations to the 2022 Faculty/Resident Development Initiatives Grant (FRDIG) Recipients

The Faculty/Resident Development Initiatives Grant (FRDIG) offered by the Office of Faculty Development supports projects from faculty and residents in the Faculty of Medicine. The focus of the projects must aim to enhance the quality or scholarship of teaching in the Faculty of Medicine within the faculty development priority areas of health professions education that are widely transferrable across contexts.

For the 2022 grant, projects were entered either under the general category with focus on supporting faculty or residents as teachers (within one of the areas of Effective questioning/Probing clinical reasoning, Faculty and resident wellness and Integrating Competency Based Medical Education in residency teaching) or under the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, EDI stream (focusing on supporting faculty and residents as teachers to incorporate EDI, anti-oppression, and anti-racism principles in the learning environment).

There were many outstanding submissions with the following projects selected for 2022:

Project: Evaluation Without Representation?: Pediatric Resident Perspectives on Competency-Based Medical Education.
Dr. Harrison Anzinger, PGY2 Pediatrics
Co-developer/Investigator:
Dr. Brett Schrewe, MDCM, MA, FRCPC
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia
PhD Candidate, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia

This project explores 1. how pediatric residents perceive Competency By Design (CBD) as impacting their education and evaluation by faculty and 2. what ideas pediatric residents have to improve CBD implementation by programs and faculty, through a qualitative comparative case study of residents currently undergoing training through CBD. Data will be collected from the University of British Columbia, the University of Alberta, and the University of Toronto.

Project: Why do field notes and ITARs suck? An exploratory study on barriers of using field notes and ITARs in competency-based medical education.
Dr. Vincent Wong, Department of Family Practice
Co-developer/Investigator:
Dr. Jacqueline Ashby, EdD
Assessment & Evaluation Co-Lead, UBC Family Practice Residency Program
Curriculum Advisor, UBC Family Practice Enhanced Skills Program
Faculty Development Coach, Team-Based Primary Care Learning Centres Project
Program Coach, Abbotsford-Mission Family Practice Residency Program

This project is to design a faculty development teaching module that trains new and existing preceptors and residents in the Family Practice residency program on the elements of a quality assessment report that would provide formative feedback to residents and preceptors and serve to inform resident competency committees. Through focus groups and workshop, the team will explore the factors that contribute to quality assessments in field notes and ITARs in addition to identifying barriers and challenges that exist for preceptors and residents.

Project: Two Birds with One Stone – Improving Teaching through Peer Consultation in Combined Multidisciplinary Clinics at BC Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Mercedes Chan, Department of Pediatrics
Co-developer/Investigator:
Dr. Allison Gregory, Dermatologist, Clinical Instructor, Department of Dermatology, University of British Columbia. Program Director, UBC Dermatology Residency Program.

This project is to pilot a Peer Consultation Program at BC Children’s Hospital through combined multidisciplinary clinics where ≥2 faculty work together in the same clinical space, providing patient care. Peers will observe and provide feedback on their clinical teaching. The project will develop both teaching and evaluation materials including a video to demonstrate different scenarios of how teaching can be done in a multidisciplinary clinic.

Project: Breaking Down Bias: Case-Based Learning Tools for Starting Conversations about Bias in Clinical and Academic Medicine.
Dr. Mercedes Chan, Department of Pediatrics
Co-developers/Investigators:
Melissa Crump, RN, BSN, MSN, MScHQ, Certified Executive Coach. Recipient, Evolving
Organizational Development by Connecting People and Ideas Award, 2022, Organizational
Development Network. Senior Director, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Provincial Health Services
Authority, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Dr. Maria Hubinette, Clinical Professor, Department of Family Practice; Scholar, Centre for Health
Education Scholarship; Michael Smith Health Research BC Health Professional Investigator

This project is to develop and pilot a series of educational workshops addressing implicit bias contextualized to the learning needs of learners and staff of the UBC Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics. It will produce a framework for a needs assessment on implicit bias training needs, and a repository of, and a guide to use, clinical cases illustrating bias in clinical and academic medical practice for teaching.

To view past projects click here.