PHYSICIAN ADVISOR, KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION (BILINGUAL PREFERRED)

*Primary Remote Job. You can work from a home-based office the majority of time within the provinces of Ontario and Québec, with regular in office presence at the Ottawa CMPA office (up to 1-2 days per week).

**Candidates with experience in obstetrics, anaesthesiology, or surgery are highly desired.

CONTRIBUTING TO THE CMPA

The Safe Medical Care and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion portfolio is central to the CMPA’s vision of being a Learning Organization. SMC-EDI incorporates needs assessment, design, delivery, and evaluation within a continuous improvement cycle to deliver learning to members and CMPA employees. Within SMC-EDI, The Insights and Thought Leadership department’s core activities include knowledge generation (research) and knowledge translation (learning). The department utilizes state of the art pedagogical science to share knowledge and improve practice of members and their teams while also contributing to the internal learning needs of CMPA staff, leaders, and governance through internal collaborations.

The Safe Medical Care Insights & Thought Leadership (SMCInTL) department advances the CMPA’s mission by integrating internal and external data sources, transforming evidence into novel insights, actionable knowledge, and impactful resources to support the safety of medical care. The department studies historical data to identify individual provider, team and system factors associated with medical-legal risk, researches trends, and evaluates the performance and impact of education programs. The department synthesizes evidence and disseminates its research findings by authoring reports, risk management communications,



and educational materials in collaboration with other departments. The department also responds to internal and external requests for data analysis.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Physician Advisor, Knowledge Translation in Protected Medical Care Insights & Thought Leadership contributes to leading-edge education for physicians and other members of medical teams across Canada to promote the provision of safe medical care. This includes developing and evaluating educational curriculum; delivering educational presentations across Canada in both virtual and in-person formats; and development of asynchronous learning products such as podcasts, electronic learning activities and recorded presentations. There are also opportunities for authoring publications, including articles for the CMPA ebulletins and submissions for peer reviewed medical journals.

The Physician Advisor participates in effective team, departmental and cross-departmental activities and communications. The role works to promote a member-focused, professional and ethical culture and supportive work environment at the CMPA.

POSITION ACTIVITIES

Provide secure medical care and medico-legal education across Canada to groups of members and as appropriate to other health professionals

- Collaborate to create, update and evaluate multimedia presentations and education assets/materials




- Seek additional knowledge from the published medical literature, relevant sources and stakeholders
- Deliver synchronous education virtually or in-person to audiences of varying sizes and specialties
- Act as a professional, credible and effective ambassador of the CMPA
- Conduct pre-session needs assessments to plan impactful education as well as post-session evaluations to assess session impact and effectiveness
- Receive and respond openly to coaching, mentoring and performance feedback from peers and management

Develop content for various publication channels

- Author or support the authoring of educational articles and materials on a variety of educational and risk management-related topics for CMPA communication channels, such as podcasts, electronic learning activities on the website, CMPA ebulletins, the CMPA Good Practices Guidance, and peer-reviewed medical journals and other publications

Contribute to the development of the CMPA Continuing Professional Development programming

- Assist in the development of the CMPA education curriculum based on the Association’s strategic goals, using best practices in adult learning, including the use of synchronous, asynchronous, and blended learning models appropriate to the learning needs of members across the continuum of practice
- Assist in the development and implementation of an evaluation framework for educational programs and other products and services to assess their impact and effectiveness

Collaborate with the Department of Medico-Legal Services

- Participate in suitable orientation and training
- Seek additional support and guidance as required to provide accurate and effective one-to-one advice to members
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📌 Physician Advisor, Knowledge Translation (Ottawa)
🏢 Canadian Medical Protective Association
📍 Ottawa