OVERVIEW

International Conference on Residency Education (ICRE) 2021 is organized by Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) and will be held from Oct 20 - 22, 2021.

Session Details:
• October 20 – Pre-conference courses and opening plenary
• October 21– 22 – Two full days of content, including plenaries, research presentations, concurrent workshops and more.

Pre-Conference Courses:
• ASPIRE – Essentials
• Assess your own assessment system: A systematic approach to programmatic assessment
• Coaching: A key to the success of CBME
• Developing and leading people: A leadership masterclass
• Enhancing your Competence Committee: Principles, evidence, and pro-tips
• Learning Theories meet Practice: Optimizing both learning and patient care
• Performing through the Lens: How to be better on screen in the virtual world
• The emerging need for learner handover in MedEd: Making it work across the continuum
• The future is now: Gamechangers in educational technology

Other events:
• The International Summit on Leadership Education for Physicians (TISLEP) - October 19, 2021

Audience:
• clinical teachers and educators;
• program directors;
• residents;
• postgraduate deans;
• program administrators;
• government leaders and policy makers;
• educational researchers; and
• medical education leaders.

Goals and objectives:
Each year, ICRE brings together more than 1,700 clinical educators and physicians from around the world to share ideas, challenges, innovations, and advance training.

Topics covered at this year’s conference may include :
• Accreditation in residency education
• Admissions: Selecting residents
• Assessment: Cutting edge tools and practical techniques
• Competency-based Education
• Education research methods
• Equity, diversity and inclusion
• Faculty development
• Fatigue risk management/Resident duty hours
• Health policy and residency education
• Humanities and history in medical education
• Leadership education
• Learning analytics
• Next generation residency education: Game changers and proven practices
• Physician health and wellness
• Quality improvement and patient safety in residency education
• Simulation in residency education
• Teaching and learning in residency education
• The unique educational climate of the operating theatre
• Trainees leading medical education change: For trainees, by trainees
• Using innovative technologies for medical education
• What Works? Innovations in residency teaching and assessment

ICRE Objectives:
• Describe novel designs for residency education in the 21st century;
• Describe key current trends in residency education, and identify the implications for their own program(s);
• Adopt a number of new approaches for enhancing excellence in teaching and assessment in residency;
• Describe best practices and research in residency education;
• Describe new developments in competency-based education and the implications for residency education;
• Describe different approaches to residency education from other countries and jurisdictions;
• Describe the forces and science behind the quality revolution in medicine, and adapt residency education accordingly; and
• Describe the implications of new technologies for residency education.