Continuing Medical Education (CME)
The NOSM CEPD office has a variety of Continuing Medical Education opportunities offered through a variety of methods. Whether you’re able to attend one of our many conferences, participate in workshops or series hosted in our communities, or access one of our now many virtual events to meet your personal learning needs, there is something for all faculty, in all communities.
Please explore the opportunities and additional resources in our menu options below!
CME Series & Workshops
NOSM U CEPD Palliative Care Education Series & Clinical Rounds
Please visit the NOSM U CEPD Palliative Care Education website to view upcoming events and to register!
Accreditation
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 Continuing Education and Professional Development Office at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine for up to 1.5 Mainpro+ credit.
Pan-Northern Clinical Rounds Collective
Pan Northern Clinical Rounds Collective (PNCRC) – created in response to feedback received from clinicians across the North. The PNCRC will bring together in one convenient location Rounds programs from across the wider campus of NOSM University, resulting in an itemized collection of live and archived CME content.
About:
Our goal is to support and connect communities and clinicians by “shortening the distance” between you and the valuable educational content being created across the region. You can use the accordion menu on the “About the Collective” tab to see what each Rounds Program has to offer or use the search function of the Schedule page to search for a particular topic.
Visit the Pan-Northern Clinical Rounds Collective website for more information!
Annual CPD Conferences
Thunder Bay Family Medicine Update (September 26, 2025)
Registration Now Open!
Thunder Bay Family Medicine Update 2025
Delta Hotel, Thunder Bay
Thursday, September 25, 2025 – Evening Social (The Barrel House)
Friday, September 26, 2025 – Full-Day Conference (The Superior Inn)
For more information or to register, visit the FM Update website.
HSN Annual Cardiovascular Symposium (October 3, 2025)
Registration Now Open!
Health Sciences North Annual Cardiovascular Symposium
Holiday Inn, Sudbury
Friday, October 3, 2025 from 8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Hybrid event!
For more information or to register, visit the Cardiovascular Symposium website!
Northern Ontario Women’s Health Conference (October 23-24, 2025)
Northern Ontario Women’s Health Conference
Delta Hotel, Thunder Bay
Thursday, October 23, 2025 – Evening Social
Friday, October 24, 2025 – Full-Day Conference
Registration Opening Soon!
For more information, visit the Women’s Health Conference website.
North of 44: A Primary Care Conference (October 31, 2025)
Save-the-Date for the 2025 North of 44 Primary Care Conference
This will be a hybrid event located at NOSM U Sudbury campus and via WebEx.
For up-to-date information, visit the North of 44: A Primary Care Conference website.
Geriatric Refresher Day! (November 6, 2025)
Registration & Poster Abstract Submission Open!
This event will be virtual over WebEx.
To submit a poster submission, or to register, visit the Geriatric Refresher Day Conference website.
LEG Lead & Administrators Meeting (November 7-8, 2025)
Save-the-Date!
LEG Lead & Administrators Meeting 2025
Section Chair meetings – November 6th and 7th, 2025
LEG Lead & Administrators Meeting – November 7th and 8th, 2025
Location: Hilton Toronto Airport Hotel
Stay tuned for more information!
Rural Acute Medicine Symposium 2026 (February 27-28, 2026)
Rural Acute Medicine Symposium
February 27-28, 2026
Location: Timmins, Ontario
Stay tuned for more information!
Palliative Care Conference 2026 (March 27, 2026)
Northeast Ontario Palliative Care Conference 2026
March 27, 2026
Stay tuned for more information!
Northern Constellations 2026 (April 30 – May 2, 2026)
Join us in-person at the Delta Toronto Airport Hotel!
Stay tuned for more information!
Asynchronous Learning Opportunities
Hearing Our Voices: Indigenous Cultural Safety Online Program
This program communicates the experience of Indigenous women in their own voices to residents and other allied health care practitioners who care for Indigenous patients or clients. These online modules aim to improve practitioners’ ability to care for Indigenous people in Canada by increasing cultural awareness and knowledge of Indigenous Peoples’ social determinants of health and by learning how to incorporate culturally appropriate care into practice. The Hearing Our Voices Program incorporates videos, readings, self-reflection exercises, and interactive activities to guide learning.
Learning Objectives:
* Practice cultural humility and engage in critical self-reflection about one’s relationship with Indigenous Peoples in Canada.
* Apply the principles of trauma-informed care and relational practice to foster trust-based relationships with patients or clients.
* Incorporate strategies to support culturally safe and culturally appropriate care for Indigenous Peoples in clinical and/or educational practice.
For more information and to register, please visit the CEPD Learning HUB
Stand Up: Understanding and Combatting microaggressions
This program offers:
* Frameworks to provide effective, collegial feedback to learners in difficulty
* Strategies for collaboratively developing improvement plans for learners
* Approaches for responding to professional lapses and repeated professional lapses
* Information on the hidden curriculum and professional identity formation models
* Guidance on NOSM U’s remediation policies and planning
Learning Objectives:
* Describe microaggressions and examples of microaggressions.
* Explain how microaggressions result in healthcare disparities and unsafe environments for learners, faculty, clinicians, and patients.
* Apply the Triangle Model Framework to respond to microaggressions as the source, bystander, or recipient of a microaggression.
For more information and to register, please visit the CEPD Learning HUB
Setting the Table: An Introduction to teaching and Practicing in Northern Ontario
* Practice your feedback-giving skills through interactive scenarios featuring the Ask-Tell-Ask and One-Minute Preceptor Feedback models.
* Learn key information about NOSM University, Northern Ontario communities, and social determinants of health that impact health care delivery in the North.
* Explore tip sheets and best practice guidelines to support you in the areas of teaching, orienting new learners, and creating safe learning environments.
Learning Objectives
* Establish a safe learning environment when providing feedback to learners in a clinical environment (Scholar).
* Identify characteristics and challenges of the Northern Ontario health care context (Health Advocate).
* Describe NOSM U’s Distributed Medical Education model and the structure of its core programs (Scholar).
* Apply the Ask-Tell-Ask and One-Minute Preceptor Feedback Models when providing feedback to learners in clinical contexts (Scholar).
For more information and to register, please visit the CEPD Learning HUB
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