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Beyond the Tasks: Project Leadership for PGME Program Admin (Sept. 2025 Pilot)

Learn to apply project management and leadership principles to keep high-impact projects on track and driving meaningful, positive impact

Are you a Canadian administrative professional working within a post-graduate medical education (PGME) program, involved in supporting crucial initiatives like curriculum development, accreditation, resident affairs, or eager to take a leadership role in these areas? Do you want to elevate your project management skills, strengthen your leadership capabilities, and achieve significant professional growth within the specialized environment of PGME?

If you're looking to:

- Confidently manage projects and initiatives unique to your PGME program (e.g., accreditation submissions, curriculum changes, resident recruitment, program evaluations).
- Optimize workflows and enhance the efficiency of PGME administrative processes.
- Communicate effectively with program directors, faculty, residents, and other stakeholders in the PGME community.
- Cultivate your leadership potential within the context of post-graduate medical education.
- Gain recognition for your vital contributions to the success of the residency or fellowship program.
- Advance your career and amplify your value within the specialized field of PGME administration.

 ...then this is the pilot program for you.

Course Summary

The success of any impactful project or initiative within a post-graduate medical education program relies on the dedicated individuals who drive it forward, regardless of their formal title. This program recognizes that administrative professionals often play a crucial role in supporting and even leading smaller-scale projects within departments, program offices, and administrative units, yet may not always receive targeted training specific to the PGME environment.

This unique pilot program is designed to equip PGME administrative professionals with essential project management skills and a proactive mindset, enhanced by personalized leadership insights gained from the included Maxwell DISC assessment. This personalized assessment will also deepen their self-awareness regarding their leadership, communication, and teamwork strengths within the context of PGME's collaborative environment.

Participants will learn to manage projects effectively, navigate challenges unique to PGME (e.g., accreditation cycles, resident rotations, faculty engagement), establish clear objectives, and develop their leadership abilities to contribute to a thriving academic and administrative environment for residents and fellows. They will understand that leadership is influence, and that anyone can lead a project, regardless of their position within the PGME program. 

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

1. Apply fundamental project management principles to tasks and initiatives within a post-graduate medical education program setting.
2. Develop a proactive and resilient mindset to achieve project goals and navigate the specific challenges of the PGME academic and administrative environment (e.g., accreditation requirements, resident well-being initiatives).
3. Set SMART goals relevant to PGME projects (e.g., improving resident recruitment processes, streamlining evaluation methods) and break down complex tasks into manageable steps
4. Recognize and leverage their individual leadership and communication strengths based on their DISC assessment within the context of interacting with program directors, faculty, and residents.
5. Adapt their communication style to interact effectively with colleagues, faculty, residents, regulatory bodies, and other stakeholders in the PGME community.

Why This Pilot is Unique

This is your chance to be a founding member of this program that provides a combination of training, coaching and mentorship. As part of our pilot cohort, you'll receive:

1. Deeply Discounted Tuition: Instead of the future anticipated price of  at least $888 (CAD), you'll invest only $222 (CAD) while the program is in pilot mode.
2. Personalized Project Leader Assessment: This comprehensive report provides you with insights into your communication and behavioral style (DISC), thinking styles and strengths (TEAMS), values-driven motivations (VALUES), and behavioural attitudes (BAI), specifically as they relate to leadership and collaboration within the unique environment of post-graduate medical education.
3. Exclusive Access to the Instructor: You'll have increased opportunities for direct interaction, feedback, and Q&A.   Regular virtual office hours will also be available.
4. Private Community:  You will have access to a private community on an app where you can interact with other members of the pilot program as well as easily access your modules on the go.
5. Ability to Demonstrate Your Leadership: 
- Your feedback will be invaluable in influencing and shaping the future of this training, ensuring it meets the specific needs of Canadian medical office professionals.
- You'll have the opportunity to provide a testimonial about your experience, which will be used to promote the program to future students (with your permission, of course). Your testimonial will help motivate others, a key leadership ability
6. Hands-on Application: This course isn't just theory. You'll apply what you learn to a real-world project from your PGME program, ensuring you achieve tangible results and build a portfolio of your contributions to residency or fellowship education.
7. Lifetime Access to Updates:  For the lifetime of this program, you will receive updates to the program that are made.  You will also have the ability to join future cohorts to refresh your training and/or use the time to plan future projects.
8. Leverage AI:  Influence the design of a custom GPT to help identify project success strategies to get projects unstuck or prevent roadblocks. 

Course Curriculum

Marianne Bell

Marianne Bell is a certified management consultant (CMC) and project management professional (PMP) with over 25 years of progressive experience in various roles within the Saskatchewan healthcare, technology, and medical education industry.

Whether she was coordinating workflow/process improvements at the medical clinic in her first career as medical secretary/office manager, managing administrative and clinical information system implementations, providing medical education information system and technology advice to physicians and their administrative leaders or leading strategic medical school initiatives alongside physician leaders, she has always approached her work with an entrepreneurial lens and passion for aligning her work with the bigger picture of how it creates meaningful positive impact. For example, preparing for the 2017 Undergraduate Medical Education (UGME) accreditation visit was not just about being approved to continue educating the doctors of the future, it was about achieving outcomes that would provide longer term benefits; including, being granted full accreditation with out interim visits, increased engagement, improved visibility of the continuous improvement work happening.

Now as the founder of Impact Online Business Management, she serves as the principal coach, consultant and trainer to continue guiding medical, healthcare, and administrative professionals to ensure their projects are on track and successful in solving real problems, delivering tangible, lasting value, and driving strategic outcomes.

Course Pricing

Pilot Program Enrollment is open until May 31, 2025.  
Start date will be determined with pilot participants

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