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Learning, teaching, and PD · 10 ideas

  • Use insights from student surveys about their non-academic stressors to inform the design of learning experiences
  • Consider the health and well-being impacts of evening classes
  • Embed messages about wellness and resources into course content
  • Consider a cap on preparatory and other weekly scheduled activities (such as readings) related to course topics
  • Invite guest lecturers to expose students to other positionalities
  • Raise awareness about the flexibility available in courses and program completion for students to attend to their health needs and feel supported (e.g. wider acceptance of the student declaration of absence, longer completion of programs (four-year degrees taking five years), extended time to complete course requirements)
  • Collaborative initiatives between units: Collaboration between Medicine and medicine Librarians to support the health and wellness of medical students
  • Provide opportunities for students to learn about personal well-being: Train students to be team-based care providers (e.g., consider ways that Interprofessional Education (IPE) can support team-based care as well as learning opportunities)
  • Provide opportunities for students to learn about personal well-being: FGS's Grad PD Programs with a focus on mental health/well-being
  • Provide opportunities for students to learn about personal well-being: Create a mandatory course for new students embedded in the curriculum focused on well-being and inclusion