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Virtual Research Roundtable AI: Friend or Foe in CPD Research
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern Time
Free registration for SACME Members / $30 for Non-Members
Event Overview
The Virtual Research Roundtable (VRR) is a unique opportunity for individuals to deepen their research knowledge and connect with peers. This casual 1-hour webinar will feature a presentation by our esteemed colleague, Eleftherios Soleas, examining the pitfalls of integrating AI into CPD research, strategies for responsible use, and examples of successful implementation.
Following the short presentation, engage in a dynamic conversation with the presenter and other colleagues. You'll have the chance to ask questions, explore how the presented concepts can enhance your own research, and discuss potential collaborative opportunities.
Join us for this engaging event designed to grow our research capacity, exchange ideas, and foster collaborative work. We look forward to your participation and the vibrant discussion that will follow.
This event is eligible for SACME’s Certificate of Recognition Program in CPD/CE Scholarship.
Speaker
Eleftherios Soleas, PhD
Eleftherios Soleas is the Director of Lifelong Learning and Innovation in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen’s University in the Office of Professional Development and Educational Scholarship as well as adjunct faculty in health sciences and education. His program of research looks at motivation dynamics and the design of learning environments to stoke innovation. He is a mixed methods researcher balancing thematic, narrative, and quantizing approaches with statistical modeling. His role places him as a primary developer and accreditor of CPD and FD for the Faculty of Health Sciences and as the educational lead for his home department. He is a member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada’s Accreditation Committee. He is the co-chair of Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada’s CPD Deans Committee as well as the Chair of AFMC CPD Research Symposium. He also serves on university and national committees lending his educational, psychological, and accreditation perspectives. He has a passion for grouchy advocacy for a fairer, more egalitarian Canada based on inclusion, community, and compassion. Terry enjoys, in no particular order, trying to be funny, teaching, baked goods, lost causes, and relatedly watching the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Moderator
Martin Tremblay, PhD
Celebration of the Decades - 1980s
How Physicians Learn and Change
Monday, July 21, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT
Free for SACME Members / $30 Non-Members
Session Overview
Join us for this important session as we continue remembering seminal publications in continuing medical education (CME) and continuing professional development (CPD) over the past 50 years. We will have a rare opportunity to revisit important literature and hold conversations with scholars who have made major contributions to our field.
In this session, we will focus on a groundbreaking study for our field, as well as for SACME, conducted and published in the 1980s, often simply referred to as “The Change Study.” We are fortunate to host Dr. Robert Fox, one of the primary authors of the study and the book publication, who will describe how and why the society decided to support and participate in a very large study of change and learning, and lead us in the discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of the change study. We will review and appreciate the role that theory had in the study of the continuing professional development of physicians and in the generation of evidence-based educational practice.
During this facilitated and interactive session, we will have an opportunity to directly engage Dr. Fox and each other around questions related to the study of changing and learning in the lives of physicians, its origins, and its implications. The overall goal is to place this large and complex Society project into the fabric of the times, a decade of transformation for continuing professional development.
A copy of several critical chapters of the book and the reference papers will be provided to all registrants.
As always, we welcome your thoughts and perspectives and hope to see you engaged in our VJC.
Robert Fox, Ed.D. Professor Emeritus University of Oklahoma
Host and Facilitator
Mila Kostic, CHCP, FACEHP
Virtual Research Roundtable Getting Started with Qualitative Research Methods
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern Time
More information coming soon
Nicolas Fernandez
Nicolas Fernandez is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal. He is also senior Researcher in the Faculty’s Continuing Professional Development unit, where he studies the longitudinal development of relational competencies among health professionals. His work focuses in particular on how experiential learning contributes to competency development.
Virtual Research Roundtable Tips and Tricks to Submit a Research Grant
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Speakers
Morag Paton, PhD Kulamakan Kulasegaram
VIRTUAL RESEARCH ROUNDTABLE
Where Do I Start? Meaningful Inclusion of People with Lived Experience in CPD Research
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
The Virtual Research Roundtable (VRR) is a unique opportunity for individuals to deepen their research knowledge and connect with peers. This casual 1-hour webinar will feature a presentation by some of our esteemed colleagues on a specific research method or topic.
Edeline Mitton
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
A 20-year veteran of the State University of New York (SUNY) system, Edeline Mitton, MEd, is the director of the Office of Continuing Medical Education at Downstate Medical Center. She received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology with a minor in marketing from the City University of New York College of Staten Island, a master’s in education with a concentration in instructional design from the University of Phoenix, and a Medical Informatics Certification at SUNY Downstate. In addition, she is involved in the cultivation of mindfulness meditation and yoga therapy and research. Mitton has been involved with PCORI since 2014, serving as a merit reviewer and an Ambassador. She believes in the PCORI mission of putting patients at the center of research. As an educator for physicians, she believes that the patient should be front and center when looking at practice gaps. What is it that this physician is lacking and needs to improve upon to impact that patient’s health? How do we not involve the patient in their care? They know their bodies, the spaces in between, and what feels right. Mitton is also a caretaker and advocate for Alzheimer’s patients.
Holly Harris
PhD Student and Research Coordinator for the Collaborative Learning College at CAMH
Holly Harris is a research professional specializing in co-production, Recovery Colleges, and participatory-action research. Holly leverages her lived experiences of mental health system encounters and Master’s in Critical Disability Studies to ensure that many perspectives, including lived-experience perspectives, are meaningfully engaged in health education, research, and programming. Holly is a Recovery College Research Coordinator at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and is pursuing a PhD in Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies at York University.
Sophie Soklaridis
Senior Scientist and Scientific Director, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Chair, Equity and Recovery-Oriented Mental Health Education Research
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Vice-Chair, Mental Health Equity & EDIIA, Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Dr. Sophie Soklaridis is a Senior Scientist and Scientific Director at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). She is the inaugural Research Chair of Recovery and Equity-Focused Mental Health Education Research. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Department of Family & Community Medicine at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, and the Vice-Chair of Mental Health Equity and EDIIA at the Department of Psychiatry. She is a Scientist at Wilson Centre for Research in Education. Her research takes a critical sociological approach on the issues of power, identity and relationships. Her scholarly foci include patient/clients as partners in research and mental health education and the influence of power and privilege on academic medicine. She is a widely published and well-funded scientist who has received multiple awards for her research.
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