| Title | Layered Learning: Building critical community capacity for teaching medical students |
|---|---|
| Faculty/College/Unit | Medicine |
| Status | Active |
| Duration | 1 Year |
| Initiation | 04/01/2024 |
| Project Summary | This project aims to develop educational materials to support the integration of “layered learning” into community-based faculty preceptors’ clinical teaching environments. Layered learning refers to the synchronous placement of medical students along with other more advanced learners (more senior students or resident physicians), resulting in a student receiving “layers of teaching”. For the medical student, this provides opportunity to benefit from both faculty and near-peer teaching and support. Layered learning supports for community contexts are limited. By developing practical and evidence-based models of how to effectively structure and teach in a layered learning community-based context, the project will build teaching capacity in undergraduate medical education by increasing the number of learners attached to each faculty preceptor. As the expansion of the undergraduate medical education program is occurring in rural communities across the province, this capacity is especially critical considering the current shortage of rural family physicians. |
| Funding Details | |
| Year 1: Project Year | Year 1 |
| Year 1: Funding Year | 2024/2025 |
| Year 1: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 1: Principal Investigator | Heather Buckley |
| Year 1: Funded Amount | 49,934 |
| Year 1: Team Members | Heather Buckley, Associate Dean, Faculty Development / Clinical Associate Professor, Family Practice, Faculty of Medicine |