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Winter 2021 (Volume 31, Number 4)

Education Committee Report: Engaging While Emerging from the Pandemic!

By Raheem B. Kherani, BSc (Pharm), MD, FRCPC, MHPE; and Elizabeth M. Hazel, MD, FRCPC

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The Education Committee at their most recent virtual meeting.

Engaged and committed! The Education Committee has addressed challenges that have arisen during the pandemic, through innovation, collaboration and delivery of important educational support and programs. We have continued to meet regularly and build on feedback to further address member needs.

Innovation
The Undergraduate Subcommittee plans to disseminate the National Learning Outcomes of the National Undergraduate Rheumatology Curriculum to assist stakeholders from across the country. Meanwhile, the Postgraduate (PG) Subcommittee has been actively modifying the National Rheumatology Residents Weekend to a novel format with a year-long curriculum. The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Subcommittee developed a second series of the COVID-19 Response Webinar Series, recently recognized by the Canadian Society of Association Executives with the Award of Excellence, noted for this best practice.

Collaboration
The Education Committee has collaborated with other CRA Operations Committees to facilitate the delivery of Indigenous Health Initiatives (with the Quality Care Committee), development of podcasts on Indigenous Health (with the Communications Committee) and with assisting the Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) Program Committee in the mammoth task of planning this critical opportunity for our members. In addition to internal committee collaborations, we have assisted physician-led organizations with CPD accreditation of programming targeted to rheumatologists.

Delivery
The PG Subcommittee highlights their ongoing educational initiatives and supports on page 6 of this issue. The LEAdership Program (LEAP) seeks to identify and promote leadership of rheumatologists at an early career stage who are likely to become leaders in research, education or advocacy in Canada, with the next application cycle in April 2022. The upcoming CRA Review Course was well received the last two years and is being offered in conjunction with the 2022 CRA ASM.

We look forward to upcoming post-pandemic education that will build on virtual and in-person collaboration.

Raheem B. Kherani, BSc (Pharm), MD, FRCPC, MHPE
Chair, CRA Education Committee
Clinical Associate Professor,
Program Director, Adult Rheumatology
University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, British Columbia

Elizabeth M. Hazel, OLY, MD, FRCP(C)
Vice-Chair, CRA Education Committee
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Division of Rheumatology,
McGill University Health Centre
Montreal, Quebec

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