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My thoughts about medical education and higher education.

Louis-Philippe Thibault

Metacognition Reflection for Teaching 100

Before starting the portfolio exercise, a while ago, I had no idea of the objectives, the academic targets underpinning that weekly duty....

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Emotions and school outcomes

As a pediatrician, I try to stay aware about the way my patients are performing at school. To know how it is going at home and...

Louis-Philippe Thibault

Inclusive teaching on the clinical teaching units

''Inclusive teaching involves deliberately cultivating a learning environment where all learners are treated equitably, have equal access...

Louis-Philippe Thibault

How thinking about cognitive biases will influence my final syllabus

As we go along in building our course syllabus, we integrate more and more content to it, considering different aspects of our course...

Louis-Philippe Thibault

When learning is effortful... for our institutions

As we go along through this very interesting course, I can't stop myself thinking about how we were taught and how we studied., as...

Louis-Philippe Thibault

Why are we so bad at assessing our own learning?

During the last live session and throughout readings and assignments, we discussed and think a lot about how testing and retrieval...

Louis-Philippe Thibault

When does expertise become sufficient to be an expert?

Throughout the session and while we were discussing in large group or in the breakout rooms, that thought did not leave my mind : When...

Louis-Philippe Thibault

Building something real

I am getting into this new cycle of my training with the expectation of getting practical knowledge about a theme that has always...