SoTL CoDEx: Collaborate, Design, Execute
Basic Medical Sciences Teaching Seminar Series presents the first annual SoTL CoDEx: Collaborate, Design, Execute.
Topic: SoTL CoDEx: Collaborate, Design, Execute.
Date: May 23, 2025
Time: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm ET
Room: MSB 2278
Speakers:
- Dr. Danielle Bentley, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in the Division of Anatomy
- Dr. Cora McCloy, Faculty Liaison Coordinator, Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation
- Erica Nekolaichuk, Faculty Liaison & Instruction Librarian, Gerstein Science Information Centre
Attendance and engagement at the recent BMS Teaching Seminar Series: SoTL in Health Sciences Education - Getting your Next Education Research Project Started, was invigorating. Building of participants’ feedback and facilitators’ reflections, we have heard that you want more; more information about the foundational basics of SoTL, more opportunities to collaborate with potential research partners across the basic biomedical sciences, more time to design your own SoTL project and more tangible suggestions for specific elements of research execution.
With that in mind, we invite you to join us for a full day of active SoTL research design!
The SoTL CoDEx has been designed for the collegial exchange of ideas and suggestions. There will be formal presentations from experts in SoTL research design, institutional research funding opportunities, SoTL ethics, and dissemination / knowledge utilization. There will also be informal think-tank style breakout sessions as well as a light breakfast and lunch provided.
Come with a general SoTL pondering and leave with a prepared SoTL project!
Speaker Biographies
Dr. Danielle Bentley, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in the Division of Anatomy
As an educator, Dr. Bentley designs and implements evidence-based courses in gross anatomy, embryology, and human dissection to undergraduate, graduate, and medical students studying in the Faculties of Medicine, Arts & Science, & Kinesiology. Drawing on her breadth of experiences across health professions education, her courses emphasize the clinical applicability of foundational knowledge.
As an education researcher, she is the founder and lead-PI of the Advances in Teaching and Learning in the Anatomical Sciences (ATLAS) Research Lab (www.atlasresearchlab.ca). Together with her team of student researchers, the overarching objectives of her program of research are to enhance student learning via 1) evidenced-based in-class approaches to teaching, 2) meaningful student assessments, and 3) vocationally relevant course design.
Dr. Cora McCloy, Faculty Liaison Coordinator, Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation
Cora has a Doctorate in Exercise Sciences (Sport Policy, Socio-Cultural Studies) from the University of Toronto. For over a decade, she has worked as a Faculty Liaison Coordinator at the Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation. In this role she provides teaching support for instructors across multiple divisions and domains: Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL), teaching dossiers, course design, teaching strategies, and research methodologies. Cora has facilitated faculty cohort programs such as the SoTL Institute and SoTL Writing, that focus on building positive teaching cultures across the university.
Erica Nekolaichuk, Faculty Liaison & Instruction Librarian, Gerstein Science Information Centre
Erica Nekolaichuk, MA, MLIS, is the rehabilitation and kinesiology librarian with the Gerstein Science Information Centre. Prior to arriving at Gerstein, Erica worked in continuing medical education and as a solo hospital librarian at the Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton, Alberta. Through her experience in hospital and academic health science libraries, she has been involved in a number of systematic and scoping reviews and has provided expert searching and systematic review training for clinicians, students, and faculty.