DIME Rounds

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Department of Innovation in Medical Education - DIME

DIME rounds

The University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Medicine, Department of Innovation in Medication Education, is pleased to announce the DIME Round Schedule.

The DIME Rounds will commence in September 2025 with its monthly series highlighting the latest research and innovations in medical education. Each session will feature members of the medical and education communities presenting recent findings and cutting-edge work, all with the goal of enhancing the preparation of today’s health professionals.

The DIME Rounds will take place on Wednesdays from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. via Zoom.

**The presentations will be offered in English only**

If you are unable to attend in person, the talks will be available online.

When: Wednesdays from 12-1 pm
Where:
- Zoom: link
- ID: 357 365 1528
- Passcode: KzA1Hf

For any information regarding previous DIME Rounds, please contact DIME.

DIME rounds schedule

Date	Title of Talk	Speaker
October 15, 2025	"Invisible Barriers: Introversion, Impostor Phenomenon, and Intersectionality in Medical Education" OBJECTIVES Describe traits associated with introversion and extraversion and examine how the “Extrovert Ideal” may be unintentionally reinforced within medical education and professional culture. Explore the relationship between introversion, impostor phenomenon, and perceived participation in educational and professional activities in medicine. Analyze how intersectional identity factors (e.g., gender, ethnicity, training background) may shape the experiences of introverted medical trainees and physicians. This event is offered only in English	Dr. Meghan McConnell PhD Associate Professor, Department of Innovation in Medical Education

Date

Title of Talk

Speaker

October 15, 2025

"Invisible Barriers: Introversion, Impostor Phenomenon, and Intersectionality in Medical Education"

OBJECTIVES

Describe traits associated with introversion and extraversion and examine how the “Extrovert Ideal” may be unintentionally reinforced within medical education and professional culture.
Explore the relationship between introversion, impostor phenomenon, and perceived participation in educational and professional activities in medicine.
Analyze how intersectional identity factors (e.g., gender, ethnicity, training background) may shape the experiences of introverted medical trainees and physicians.

This event is offered only in English

Dr. Meghan McConnell PhD
Associate Professor,
Department of Innovation in Medical Education

Date	Title of Talk	Speaker
September 17, 2025	"The Crisis of Confidence in Medicine: Is It Impostor Phenomenon or something else?" OBJECTIVES consider challenges related to measuring subjective constructs and common misapplications of the term Impostor Phenomenon. explore the distinction between appropriate and inappropriate forms of under-confidence among medical professionals. understand how Swiss medical learners perceive their competence in clinical contexts. discuss the potential value of reframing the discussion through a confidence–competence framework that integrates – and interrogates – cognitive distortions, including the Impostor Phenomenon and the Dunning–Kruger effect. This event is offered only in English	Dr. Mia Gisselbaek PhD Visiting Fellow, McGill University Health Center, Pediatric anesthesiologist, Geneva University Hospital

Date

Title of Talk

Speaker

September 17, 2025

"The Crisis of Confidence in Medicine: Is It Impostor Phenomenon or something else?"

OBJECTIVES

consider challenges related to measuring subjective constructs and common misapplications of the term Impostor Phenomenon.
explore the distinction between appropriate and inappropriate forms of under-confidence among medical professionals.
understand how Swiss medical learners perceive their competence in clinical contexts.
discuss the potential value of reframing the discussion through a confidence–competence framework that integrates – and interrogates – cognitive distortions, including the Impostor Phenomenon and the Dunning–Kruger effect.

This event is offered only in English

Dr. Mia Gisselbaek PhD
Visiting Fellow, McGill University Health Center,
Pediatric anesthesiologist,
Geneva University Hospital

Date	Title of Talk	Speaker
May 14, 2025	Beyond the Facts: What Health Professions Education Can Learn from the Science of Persuasion Recording This event is offered only in English	Dr. Vicki LeBlanc PhD Chair and Full Professor, Department of Innovation in Medical Education, University of Ottawa

Date

Title of Talk

Speaker

May 14, 2025

Beyond the Facts: What Health Professions Education Can Learn from
the Science of Persuasion

Recording

This event is offered only in English

Dr. Vicki LeBlanc PhD
Chair and Full Professor,
Department of Innovation in Medical Education,
University of Ottawa

Date	Title of Talk	Speaker
March 12, 2025	Questioning our History to Support EDI in Medicine and Medical Education Recording This event is offered only in English	Dr. Kim Girouard PhD Lecturer, History of Medicine, University of Ottawa, and the University of Montreal.

Date

Title of Talk

Speaker

March 12, 2025

Questioning our History to Support EDI in Medicine and Medical Education

Recording

This event is offered only in English

Dr. Kim Girouard PhD
Lecturer, History of Medicine, University of Ottawa, and the University of Montreal.

Date	Title of Talk	Speaker
February 12, 2025	Finding Your North Star: Navigating through polarizing spaces Recording This event is offered only in English	Dr. Jerry Maniate, MD, MEd Associate Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital

Date

Title of Talk

Speaker

February 12, 2025

Finding Your North Star: Navigating through polarizing spaces

Recording

This event is offered only in English

Dr. Jerry Maniate, MD, MEd
Associate Professor,
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine,
The Ottawa Hospital

Date	Title of Talk	Speaker
November 6, 2024	Sailing an Uncharted Sea: The Experiences of Canadian-Born International Medical Graduates in Internal Medicine Residency This event is offered only in English	Zahra Merali Mb BCh BAO. MHPE. FRCPC General Internist and Clinician Teacher, Sunnybrook Hospital Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Date

Title of Talk

Speaker

November 6, 2024

Sailing an Uncharted Sea: The Experiences of Canadian-Born International Medical Graduates in Internal Medicine Residency

This event is offered only in English

Zahra Merali Mb BCh BAO. MHPE. FRCPC
General Internist and Clinician Teacher, Sunnybrook Hospital

Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Date	Title of Talk	Speaker
October 16, 2024	Umbrellas or Rain Barrels: The Study of Affect in Learning and Performance This event is offered only in English	Dr. Vicki LeBlanc Chair and Full Professor, Department of Innovation in Medical Education, University of Ottawa

Date

Title of Talk

Speaker

October 16, 2024

Umbrellas or Rain Barrels: The Study of Affect in Learning and Performance

This event is offered only in English

Dr. Vicki LeBlanc
Chair and Full Professor,
Department of Innovation in Medical Education,
University of Ottawa

Date	Title of Talk	Speaker
September 18, 2024	An Innovative Curriculum to Teach Gynecologic Procedures to Primary Care Providers Recording This event is offered only in English	Parisa Rezaiefar MD CFCP, FCFPC, BSc. Associate Professor, University of Ottawa, Department of Family Medicine

Date

Title of Talk

Speaker

September 18, 2024

An Innovative Curriculum to Teach Gynecologic Procedures to Primary Care Providers

Recording

This event is offered only in English

Parisa Rezaiefar MD CFCP, FCFPC, BSc.
Associate Professor, University of Ottawa,
Department of Family Medicine

Date	Title of Talk	Speaker
May 29, 2024	This event is offered only in English	Dr. Jerry Maniate

Date	Title of Talk	Speaker
February 7, 2024	Learner education handover – more data, less clarity and what do students think anyway Recording This event is offered only in English	Dr. Tammy Shaw Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa Department of Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital Dr. Sue Humphey-Murto Associate Professor, University of Ottawa Department of Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital

Date

Title of Talk

Speaker

February 7, 2024

Learner education handover – more data,
less clarity and what do students think anyway

Recording

This event is offered only in English

Dr. Tammy Shaw
Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa
Department of Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital

Dr. Sue Humphey-Murto
Associate Professor, University of Ottawa
Department of Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital

Date	Title of Talk	Speaker
January 31, 2024	History’s Toolbox: A New Pedagogy for Socio-Cultural Complexity in Health Professions Education Recording This event is offered only in English	Dr. Susan Lamb Jason A. Hannah Chair in History of Medicine

Date

Title of Talk

Speaker

January 31, 2024

History’s Toolbox: A New Pedagogy for Socio-Cultural Complexity
in Health Professions Education

Recording

This event is offered only in English

Dr. Susan Lamb
Jason A. Hannah Chair in History of Medicine

Date	Title of Talk	Speaker
May 10, 2023	Designing a curriculum for a new medical school: Five lessons learnt Recording This event is offered only in English	Claire Touchie MD, MHPE, FRCPC Professor, Department of Medicine, Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University of Ottawa, The Ottawa Hospital General Campus

Date

Title of Talk

Speaker

May 10, 2023

Designing a curriculum for a
new medical school: Five
lessons learnt

Recording

This event is offered only in English

Claire Touchie MD, MHPE, FRCPC

Professor,
Department of Medicine,
Divisions of General Internal Medicine
and Infectious Diseases,
University of Ottawa,
The Ottawa Hospital General Campus

Date	Title of Talk	Speaker
April 26, 2023	Meta-Research: Editors Perspectives of Reporting Guidelines in Health Professions Education Recording This event is offered only in English	Tanya Horsley, PhD Associate Director, Research Unit at The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

Date

Title of Talk

Speaker

April 26, 2023

Meta-Research: Editors Perspectives
of Reporting Guidelines in Health
Professions Education

Recording

This event is offered only in English

Tanya Horsley, PhD

Associate Director, Research Unit at
The Royal College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Canada

Date	Title of Talk	Speaker
April 19, 2023	‘Cuz I want it all, or nothing at all Recording This event is offered only in English	Samantha Halman MD, FRCPC, MMED Program Director – GIM Residency Training Program, Division of General Internal Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital - General Campus

Date

Title of Talk

Speaker

April 19, 2023

‘Cuz I want it all, or nothing at all

Recording

This event is offered only in English

Samantha Halman MD, FRCPC, MMED

Program Director – GIM Residency Training Program,
Division of General Internal Medicine,
The Ottawa Hospital - General Campus

Date	Title of Talk	Speaker
April 12, 2023	Affect Theory and the Clinical Encounter: The Role of Literature in Medicine Recording This event is offered only in English	Leonard Bloom, MD CCFP FCFP Family Medicine, uOttawa

Date

Title of Talk

Speaker

April 12, 2023

Affect Theory and the Clinical
Encounter: The Role of
Literature in Medicine

Recording

This event is offered only in English

Leonard Bloom, MD CCFP FCFP
Family Medicine, uOttawa

Date	Title of Talk	Speaker
March 15, 2023	Exploring Social Media as a Dissemination and Knowledge Translation Strategy in #MedEd Recording This event is offered only in English	Catherine Giroux, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Health Sciences Education, McGill University

Date

Title of Talk

Speaker

March 15, 2023

Exploring Social Media as a
Dissemination and Knowledge
Translation Strategy in
#MedEd

Recording

This event is offered only in English

Catherine Giroux, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow,
Institute of Health Sciences Education,
McGill University

Date	Title of Talk	Speaker
December 14, 2022	A Report on The Thematic Analysis of Burnout syndrome among perioperative care providers in Rwanda Recording This event is offered only in English	J. Christian Rangel PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Innovation in Medical Education (DIME), University of Ottawa

Date

Title of Talk

Speaker

December 14, 2022

A Report on The Thematic Analysis of Burnout syndrome among
perioperative care providers in Rwanda

Recording

This event is offered only in English

J. Christian Rangel PhD

Assistant Professor,
Department of Innovation in Medical Education (DIME),
University of Ottawa

Date	Title of Talk	Speaker
November 30, 2022	When are Randomized Clinical Trials Ethically Justified? A 10-year Odyssey Recording This event is offered only in English	Michel Shamy MD MA FRCPC Associate Professor, Department of Medicine (Neurology) & School of Epidemiology & Public Health, Interim Director, Medical Ethics & Humanities Program

Date

Title of Talk

Speaker

November 30, 2022

When are
Randomized Clinical
Trials Ethically
Justified?
A 10-year Odyssey

Recording

This event is offered only in English

Michel Shamy MD MA FRCPC

Associate Professor,
Department of Medicine (Neurology) & School of
Epidemiology & Public Health,
Interim Director,
Medical Ethics & Humanities Program

Date	Title of Talk	Speaker
March 2, 2022	Getting Meta: Exploring #MedEd Editor's Perspectives of Reporting Guidelines Recording This event is offered only in English	Tanya Horsley, PhD Associate Director, Research Unit at The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

Date

Title of Talk

Speaker

March 2, 2022

Getting Meta: Exploring #MedEd Editor's Perspectives of Reporting Guidelines

Recording

This event is offered only in English

Tanya Horsley, PhD

Associate Director,
Research Unit at The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

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