Led by:

Stella Ng, PhD

Dr. Ng is the Director of Research at the Centre for Faculty Development at The Wilson Centre. She holds the Arrell Family Chair in Health Professions Teaching. In addition, Dr. Ng is an Assistant Professor, Department of Speech-Language Pathology, and is on the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.

In any system, individuals can fall through the cracks, or experience the dehumanizing effects that often accompany medical care. What role can professionals play in filling these cracks or rehumanizing the care experience? And how can they do so? Dr. Ng will present critical reflection as one capacity that health professionals require in order to provide systems-based and compassionate care within strained systems and ambiguous, dynamic, value-conflicted zones of practice. She will review the origins of critical reflection, provide research-based examples of critically reflective practice and its effects, and share findings from a new study of whether we can foster critically reflective capacities in health professionals. She will conclude with implications for health professions teaching, learning, and practice.

At the end of the session, participants will be able to:

explain the importance of reflection, reflective practice, critical reflection and critically reflective practice
identify instances for and of critically reflective practice
describe a teaching approach effective for fostering critical reflection

Link for online participation will be shared with registrants the day before the talk. CE/CME credit is not available for online participation.