CAME Webinar Series
You are invited to join us for our CAME WEBINAR SERIES
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!
Earn up to 11 certified Mainpro+® credits or Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Section 1 credits.
College of Family Physicians of Canada – Mainpro+ credits
This activity meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and the Quebec College of Family Physicians, a continuing professional development accrediting organization recognized by the Collège des médecins du Québec and has been approved for up to [1.0] Mainpro+® credits. (1.0 hour per webinar). (Credits are automatically calculated).
Each participant should claim only those hours of credit that they actually spent participating in the educational program.
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
The CAME Webinar Program is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
The total hours (11.0) is for the entire series. Each webinar is 1.0 Section 1 hour/1.0 CFPC Mainpro+ credit/per hour.
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:
- Identify current challenges and solutions in healthcare education.
- 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!
Our upcoming webinars are just around the corner! Stay tuned to our website and social media channels for updates on exciting new deliveries as they are confirmed. Check out the full list by scrolling below. Registration will open soon, don’t miss your chance to secure your spot!
Title: The AIR We Breathe
New Date: Wednesday, October 8, 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: Konwahahawi (Sarah) Rourke, Ed.D, CEO of National Circle for Indigenous Medical Education (NCIME)
Biography:
Dr. Rourke is a proud Kanienkehá:ka woman from the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation. She belongs to the Deer Clan and is from the Herne and Laffin families. She is the wife of Atohnwa and the mother of Teieweratenies. Konwahahawi walks a path grounded in responsibility to future generations.
Konwahahawi has dedicated her life to dismantling systemic violence and advancing Indigenous self-determination through grassroots organizing, cultural revitalization, curriculum development, and harm reduction. She played an active role in supporting families and survivors during the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2-Spirit People (MMIWG2S), advocating for justice and community-led healing.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Sociology from Wells College (2003), a master’s in educational leadership from St. Lawrence University (2017), and a Doctorate in Executive Leadership and Social Justice from St. John Fisher University (2021). Her doctoral research centered on Akwesasne Aunties, their leadership roles, and the decolonial path to healing.
Konwahahawi serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the National Circle for Indigenous Medical Education (NCIME), where she leads national efforts across Turtle Island to transform medical education through an Indigenous lens. Her leadership is rooted in the lived experiences and priorities of Indigenous communities and is continually guided by the teachings of her community, the strength of Auntie networks, and the intergenerational wisdom of Tota knowledge. Grounded in these ancestral teachings, Konwahahawi works to build anti-racist, culturally safe, and community-driven approaches to Indigenous health education and wellness.
Overview:
This presentation explores anti-Indigenous racism (AIR) in healthcare and medical education, grounding the conversation in both historical context and present realities. Participants will engage with key terms, frameworks, and case studies that highlight how systemic racism continues to shape Indigenous health outcomes and the learning environments of future physicians.
Why It Matters
Anti-Indigenous racism is not only individual bias — it is embedded in structures, policies, and practices that perpetuate inequitable outcomes. The legacy of colonialism, residential schools, Indian hospitals, and medical colonialism continues to impact Indigenous patients, families, and communities. Events such as the deaths of Brian Sinclair and Joyce Echaquan reveal the fatal consequences of systemic neglect and stereotyping.
Guiding Frameworks
The session connects to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (#18–24), the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), and the In Plain Sight Report. These frameworks emphasize Indigenous rights, health equity, cultural safety, and accountability in medical education and healthcare delivery.
Learning Journey (Aligned with CanMEDS)
• Identify (Health Advocate, Scholar): Recognize how racism manifests in health and education systems, and its impact on Indigenous learners, faculty, and patients.
• Reflect (Professional, Communicator): Examine personal biases, fragilities, and positionalities, understanding how professionalism and respectful communication are central to reconciliation.
• Apply (Leader, Collaborator): Commit to systemic change by applying equity-oriented practices, supporting Indigenous-led healthcare partnerships, and embedding anti-racism in policy, teaching, and patient care.
Moving Forward
“The AIR We Breathe” challenges participants to consider their role in dismantling systemic racism. It asks: What actions will you take to create safer, more just, and culturally grounded spaces for Indigenous peoples in medicine?
Learning objectives:
- Identify anti-Indigenous racism in medical education and its impact. (Health Advocate, Scholar)
- Reflect on bias and inequities to model professionalism and respect. (Professional, Communicator
- Apply culturally safe practices and commit to systemic change. (Leader, Collaborator)
CAME Members
How to register:
If you are CAME Member you can register for this delivery via our new membership portal! Just log in and choose the session you would like to attend from the landing page!
Non-Members
How to register:
If you are a non-member you can register for this delivery via the following links:
Non-Members
Group registration for one delivery:
$75 per webinar
No maximum group size
Non-Members
How to register:
Group registration for the year – $500.00
· No maximum group size
· Links will be provided for both sessions at 12pm Eastern & 12pm Pacific
Title: Navigating organizational politics ethically: Principle-based leadership and followership
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 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. Anurag Saxena, University of Saskatchewan
Biography:
Anurag Saxena is a pathologist and Professor at the University of Saskatchewan. He has extensive local and national experience in leadership, governance and management including influencing change, developing and implementing policy and strategy in many areas including accreditation, competency-based medical education, quality improvement, and social responsiveness. His current research interests and scholarly work are in the field of leadership. He has received many awards for teaching including the Master Teacher award (University of Saskatchewan) and Duncan Graham Award for outstanding contribution to medical education (The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada). With a dialectic worldview integrating philosophy with pragmatism, Anurag is committed to promoting healthy, balanced societies and personal well-being.
Overview:
Politics, along with structure, human resources and culture plays a key role in organizational life. It influences decision-making, relationships, resource allocation, and prioritization of work. Although often associated with negative connotations (but that is a limited and constrained view), it is an important variable affecting achievement of personal and organizational outcomes. Becoming comfortable with organizational politics involves an artful weaving of trust, ethics, power / influence, and mutually-valued relationships. These themes are intricately connected with each other in the complex adaptive systems of healthcare and health professions education. Leveraging real-world examples, this session will explore principles, key concepts and specific behaviors to navigate organizational politics ethically and aligned with one’s values and beliefs.
Learning outcomes:
At the end of this session, participants will be able to: the participants will be able to:
- Discern the role of formal and informal organizations for effectiveness in organizational politics.
- Appraise the role of power /influence, trust, ethics and relationships in traversing meandering paths in organizational politics.
- Reflect on and stretch individual foundational abilities to enhance personal leadership practice.
CAME Members
How to register:
If you are CAME Member you can register for this delivery via our new membership portal! Just log in and choose the session you would like to attend from the landing page!
Non-Members
How to register:
If you are a non-member you can register for this delivery via the following links:
Non-Member Group Registration
Group registration for one delivery:
$75 per webinar
No maximum group size
Non-Member Group Registration
How to register:
Group registration for the year – $500.00
· No maximum group size
· Links will be provided for both sessions at 12pm Eastern & 12pm Pacific
Title: I Think, Therefore I Act: From Thought to Action in Medical Education
Date: Thursday, November 13, 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. Beatrice Preti, Western University
Biography:
Beatrice Preti is a passionate teacher and medical education researcher. A GI medical oncologist by training, she completed her MD through McMaster University, internal medicine residency through Queen’s, medical oncology residency and fellowship through Western, and MMEd through the University of Dundee (Dundee, UK). Currently, she is an adjunct professor with Western University, as well as an assistant professor with Emory University (Atlanta, USA) and a PhD candidate with Maastricht University (Maastricht, Netherlands). Her research focuses on hierarchy-mediated social psychology processes in learning environments, particularly the interplay between mindset and trainee-consultant interactions. Outside of medicine, she has a strong interest in writing and the arts, while having a talent for telling jokes only she finds funny (speaking of thought-to-action processes…).
Webinar Overview:
This webinar will combine prominent social psychology theories with the presenter’s own research to show how intrapersonal thought processes can influence interpersonal behaviour in medical education settings. Emphasis will be given to learner reactions and responses in trainee-faculty teaching relationships. In this interactive webinar, participants will be invited to consider and weigh-in on phenomena including moral distress and psychological safety, as well as broader concepts such as mindset and conflict, and how this influences the learner experience. We will also consider the possibility of less-desirable thought-to-action processes, with an emphasis on potential intervention points in participants’ own settings.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this session, participants should be able to:
- Recognise the impact of intrapersonal thoughts on interpersonal actions when trainees interact with teaching physicians
- Cite at least three examples of undesirable thought-to-action processes which can play out in medical education settings
- Describe an intervention in participants’ own context to address undesirable thought-to-action processes in medical education
CAME Members
How to register:
If you are CAME Member you can register for this delivery via our new membership portal! Just log in and choose the session you would like to attend from the landing page!
Non-Members
How to register:
If you are a non-member you can register for this delivery via the following links:
Non-Member Group Registration
Group registration for one delivery:
$75 per webinar
No maximum group size
Non-Member Group Registration
How to register:
Group registration for the year – $500.00
· No maximum group size
· Links will be provided for both sessions at 12pm Eastern & 12pm Pacific
Title: Interrogating Entrenched Evaluation Paradigms
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 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. Deena Hamza, University of Alberta
Biography:
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Dr. Hamza is an innovation and health professions education and practice scientist, specializing in studying the interdependencies between the design, implementation, and evaluation of change in diverse contexts. Her program of research focuses on the development of frameworks that attend to, what she calls, the ecology of change, and how innovations, systems, and people expected to enact the change influence one another.
Webinar Overview
Evaluation practices in medical education have long relied on traditional frameworks that often privilege standardization over contextualization and simplicity over complexity. While these paradigms offer structure and comparability, they can also reinforce biases, perpetuate inequities, and constrain innovation in assessment.
This webinar invites participants to critically examine entrenched evaluation paradigms in health professions education. Together, we will explore the historical and cultural forces that shaped current approaches, analyze their impact on learners and educators, and consider alternative models that better reflect the values of inclusivity, fairness, and authentic assessment. Through reflection and discussion, participants will leave with a deeper understanding of how to navigate and challenge existing evaluation structures in their own contexts.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Describe the dominant paradigms that have shaped evaluation practices in medical and health professions education.
- Critically analyze the limitations and unintended consequences of entrenched evaluation systems, including issues of bias, equity, and learner experience.
- Reflect on how entrenched evaluation practices affect their own teaching, learning, or institutional contexts.
- Identify alternative approaches or innovations that challenge traditional paradigms and align more closely with values such as fairness, inclusivity, and authentic advancement.
- Develop initial strategies for questioning and re-imagining evaluation practices within their own educational or clinical environments.
CAME Members
How to register:
If you are CAME Member you can register for this delivery via our new membership portal! Just log in and choose the session you would like to attend from the landing page!
Non-Members
How to register:
If you are a non-member you can register for this delivery via the following links:
Non-Member Group Registration
Group registration for one delivery:
$75 per webinar
No maximum group size
Non-Member Group Registration
How to register:
Group registration for the year – $500.00
· No maximum group size
· Links will be provided for both sessions at 12pm Eastern & 12pm Pacific
Title: Coming Soon!
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2026 – 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. Paris Ingledew, University of British Columbia
Biography: Coming Soon!
Webinar Overview: Coming Soon!
Learning Objectives: Coming Soon!
CAME Webinar Series
Our upcoming webinars are just around the corner! Stay tuned to our website and social media channels for updates on exciting new deliveries as they are confirmed. Check out the full list by scrolling below. Registration will open soon, don’t miss your chance to secure your spot!
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. Anurag Saxena, University of Saskatchewan
Webinar Title: Navigating organizational politics ethically: Principle-based leadership and followership
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. Beatrice Preti, Western University
Webinar Title: I Think, Therefore I Act: From Thought to Action in Medical Education
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. Deena Hamza, University of Alberta
Webinar Title: Interrogating Entrenched Evaluation Paradigms
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. Paris Ingledew, University of British Columbia
Webinar Title: Coming Soon!
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. Katherine Wisener, University of British Columbia
Webinar Title: Unravelling the Complexities of Teacher Motivation from the Perspectives of Teachers, Learners and Leadership: Implications for Teacher Engagement and Recruitment
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. Lyn Sonnenberg & Dr. Jerry Maniate
Webinar Title: Creating Accountable and Responsible Ethics for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
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. Husein Moloo, University of Ottawa
Webinar Title: Coming Soon!
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. Ian Scott, University of British Columbia
Webinar Title: Health Professions Education Leadership: leading in complex adaptive environments
Presentation 1: 12:00pm-1:00pm Eastern, (9:00am-10:00am Pacific)
Presentation 2: 12:00pm-1:00pm Pacific, (3:00pm-4:00pm Eastern)
We are in the process of securing presenters for our 2025-2026 webinar series. Is there a talk or presentation that you have seen recently that resonated with you that you think the CAME community would enjoy? Is there a topic or subject matter area that interests you and we could help you learn more about? Join the conversation and let us know! We look forward to receiving your suggestions!
Technical requirements:
To participate in this webinar you will need a computer with internet access, Flash Player and speakers. You will not have to download or install any software. Ideas or questions? Please contact us at came@afmc.ca.
How to Participate
Once registered, the CAME office will contact you with details on how to join the webinar. During the webinar you can sit back and enjoy the presentation and discussion online through a broadband internet connection.
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