Upon the beginning of a new semester, Ottawa-Shanghai Joint School
of Medicine (OSJSM) held its 6th faculty development workshop at Renji Hospital. Four
distinguished professor from the University of Ottawa Faculty of
Medicine (uOFoM) were invited, respectively: Dr. Jessica Dy, Head
of the Division General Obstetrics at The Ottawa Hospital, Dr.
Chuck SU, Director, Distributed Medical Education, Dr. Edward
Seale, Co-Director of Community Teaching Practices, and Dr. James
Chan, Co-Chair of Physician Skills Development course.
About 140 teachers participated in the workshop, including not only
key OSJSM teachers from Renji, but also teachers from Ruijin,
Xinhua, Tongren, Shanghai General Hospital, as well as family
physician teachers from community health care centers such as
Huamu, Tangqiao, Yingbo, Caojiadu, etc.
In accordance with the coming up OSJSM curriculum, the topics for
the workshop are: Teaching and Evaluation at the Bedside,
Teaching in the Community, Challenges with Learners and Planning
and Delivering OSCE.
The UO professors have rich experience in teaching. Using different
delivery methods such as group discussion, role play, etc., the
classroom interaction was fantastic. Employing online equipment,
the OSCE session was given remotely from Ottawa by Dr. CHAN who
shared his experience in the planning and delivery of OSCE and
answered the professors’ questions.
The workshop was a great success and fruitful. The
participating teachers came home with a lot of new thoughts
and learnings. They got a deeper view of clinical medical education
and really appreciated the UO professors’ teaching attitude.
