The Canadian Healthcare Education Commons provides an online workspace for groups to collaborate. The work environment includes a group wiki, blog, virtual library, event calendar, discussion forum and notification features. Any member of the Commons can create, manage and moderate a community. User access to a community can range from site-wide to private. Access to a community is established by the community manager and can be designated as:
Open (all users have access to the community and its resources),
Moderated (users may request membership in the community)
Private(users can access content and contribute content.)
View the existing communities listed below or click on "Add a Community" and explore the options!
To search for communities by topic, use the tool below.
| Community | Description | Manager | Posts |
Members |
Join Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Distributed Medical Education |
National space for collaboration regarding distributed medical education |
Janet Tworek | 22 | 43 |
Moderated Request membership |
| AFMC IT Group |
The IT Group is a subgroup of the AFMC Informatics Resource Group, and is open to IT professionals at AFMC medical schools. |
Wes Robertson | 31 | 45 |
Moderated Request membership |
| Recommendation VIII: Advance Inter- and Intra-Professional Practice—The Implementation of the FMEC Collective Vision |
This is a community of individuals who are interested advancing inter- and intra-professional practice |
Lesley Bainbridge | 61 | 51 |
Open Join |
| TNG: The Next Generation |
For young to mid-career medical educators to discuss, dialogue & plan academic initiatives |
Janet Tworek | 1 | 53 |
Open Join |
| AFMC Global Health Group |
Community for the AFMC GH Group for collaboration and sharing documents |
Jessica Sleeth | 15 | 61 |
Moderated Request membership |
| Aboriginal Health Student Interest Groups |
A community from IPAC-AFMC to support student-run Aboriginal Health Interest Groups. |
Melissa Shahin | 15 | 64 |
Open Join |
| Online Essentials for Canadian Medical Students |
Med Students |
Catherine Peirce | 7 | 72 |
Open Join |
| Portfolio Learning Community |
Faculty, administrators, staff interested in sharing information about the development and implementation of portfolio learning in medical education. |
Tim Fedak | 5 | 72 |
Moderated Request membership |
| Online Learning Modules |
This module will help you learn practical skills enabling you to create your own module |
Lynel Jackson | 73 |
Open Join |
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| AFMC - Infoway Physician in Training e-Health Curriculum & e-Learning |
Improving clinical practice and patient care by supporting clinicians in their adoption and use of electronic health record systems. |
Catherine Peirce | 165 | 73 |
Moderated Request membership |