Webinars

You are invited to join us for our CAME WEBINAR SERIES

Earn up to 11 certified Mainpro+® credits or

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Section 1 credits

The CAME webinar series is designed to bring practical, evidence and experience-based advice to Canadian health educators.

Through these monthly Zoom-based CAME webinars, you can listen to presentations on key topics in health professional education and engage with an expert and colleagues in live discussions.

Registration is now free for CAME members! Recordings of webinars are also available to our members via our new membership portal!

The (un)Learning Series: Transforming Health Professions education Through Anti-Oppression and Anti-Racism.

 

This series, consisting of several presentations per year, will reflect a sustained commitment to the important values of equity, inclusion, anti-racism and anti-oppression in Health Professions Education. With panels and speakers, the (un)Learning Series will bring these important topics into a central focus to cultivate national discussion to promote our collective learning and action.

These sessions will be conducted by experienced Canadian educators who will discuss key issues and considerations for educators and teachers looking to enhance the student learning process. During each webinar, a 10 to 15-minute Q&A session will be reserved for questions and answers.

The general objectives of the webinar series are to enable healthcare educators in Canada to:

1. Identify current challenges and solutions in healthcare education.
2. Consider how these solutions can assist them in their educational and teaching activities.

These sessions will take place at 12 PM EDT and 12 PM PDT to give you more opportunities to join us!

Title: International Medical Graduates (IMGs) Education: The Good, the Great, and Not so Simple

Date: April 29, 2025 – This webinar will be delivered in English

Presentation 1: 12:00pm-1:00pm Eastern, (9:00am-10:00am Pacific)
Presentation 2: 12:00pm-1:00pm Pacific, (3:00pm-4:00pm Eastern)

Presenter: Dr. Umberin Najeeb, University of Toronto

Biography:

Dr. Najeeb is an Associate Professor of Medicine and a staff internist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. She is the Vice Chair Culture and Inclusion and the Co-Director of the Master Teacher Program in the Department of Medicine (DoM) at the University of Toronto. She developed and implemented a unique research based longitudinal collaborative mentorship program for international medical graduates (IMGs) physicians and is the Faculty Lead for IMGs/IFTs Mentorship program. She served as the inaugural DoM Faculty Lead, Equity (2020-2023), the founding Faculty Lead for the PGY4 Internal Medicine (2012-2018) Program in the Department and the Inaugural Senior Advisor on Islamophobia (2021-2022) in the Office of Inclusion & Diversity, Temerty Faculty of Medicine at University of Toronto.

She is a Clinician Educator with scholarly focus on the 1) transition and integration of Internationally Educated Health Professionals into their training and working environments and 2) health professions education with specific focus on curriculum design, program development, faculty development and mentorship. She uses her voice and lived experiences to be an ally in her many roles. Dr. Najeeb teaches around the constructs of equity, diversity, inclusion, and allyship at undergraduate, postgraduate, and faculty development levels, contributes to committee and policy work with development of scholarship related to social justice and EDI.

She has won numerous teaching, education, and mentorship awards at the local, provincial and national level with The William Goldie Prize and Travel Award in Education in 2022, Professional Association of Residents in Ontario (PARO) Excellence in Clinical Teaching award in 2021 and Certificate of Merit award, from Canadian Association for Medical Education (CAME) in 2019.

Overview:

Large numbers of International Medical Graduate (IMG) residents are entering Canadian postgraduate training programs. IMGs are a very diverse group of learners. Over the last few years two distinct groups of IMGs have emerged: Canadian IMGs (C-IMGs: Canadian citizens and permanent residents who have gone overseas for medical education) and immigrant IMGs (I-IMGs: immigrants to Canada with medical degrees from other countries). The broad goal of this session is to create a space for educators of IMGs to enhance their understanding around the changing landscape of IMGs and also to identify the challenges and opportunities faced by the IMG learners and faculty in this new context.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the session, the participant should be able to:

1. Describe the changing landscape of IMGs education
2. Identify the challenges and opportunities as perceived by faculty and IMG learners
3. Outline an approach to supporting IMG learners in academic settings