Table 3.

Clinician–educator projects (2007–2010)

Project	Topic	Scope
Train-the-trainer (TTT) faculty development multiday courses	Collaborator role Lifelong learning Communicator role Health advocate role Professional role Residents as teachers Manager role	National – faculty representation from all 17 Canadian medical schools 380 faculty trained as local (university) champions
Educational workshops	Curriculum planning Assessment Competency-based medical education Teaching CanMEDS Implementing CanMEDS Patient safety competencies	Regional/National – faculties of medicine; national specialty organizations 230 workshops given
Conference development	National Resident Leadership Summit (NRLS) International Conference on Residency Education (ICRE) Saudi Arabian Conference on Residency Education (SACRE)	National/International NRLS is the first national resident leadership conference ICRE is the largest PGME conference in the world SACRE is the first medical education conference in Saudi Arabia
Conference presentations	Assessment Competency-based medical education Teaching CanMEDS Implementing CanMEDS Leadership	National/International – Canadian Conference on Medical Education; International Conference on Residency Education; Association of Medical Educators of Europe > 100 abstracts submitted
Accreditation standards	Objectives of training Standards of accreditation Specialty training requirements Final in-training assessment form	National > 250 documents reviewed
Educational consults	Ad hoc	Regional ~5 per year
Facilitation of other CoPs	Health advocate special interest group Collaborator special interest group Communicator special interest group Professionalism special interest group Lifelong learning special interest group Manager special interest group Resident as teachers special interest group	National
In-house publications	Patient Safety Competencies Guide TTT Collaborator Manual TTT Lifelong Learning Manual TTT Communicator Manual TTT Health Advocate Manual TTT Health Advocate Video TTT Professionalism Manual TTT Residents as Teachers Manual TTT Manager Manual Assessment Tools Handbook CanMEDS Physician Health Guide The Research Guide Collaborator Educational Resource Guide CanMEDS Pocketcard Series Emergency Medicine Bedside Teaching Pocket Card Designing Clinical Education Guide (in development) Program Director Handbook (in development)	National/International > 30,000 copies sold/distributed
Education scholarship	Define competency-based medical education via the International CBME Collaborators Review/host ‘Best Practices in Medical Education’ on a searchable web-based database Program evaluation of the TTT initiative Canadian needs assessment of medical educators Analysis of the future of medical education in Canada (FMEC) Medical education diploma program (in development)	National/International Theme issue – Medical Teacher 2010 15 peer-reviewed journal articles > 5,000 searches of the ‘Best Practices’ database Policy ‘White’ paper – FMEC