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Cardiologist
Kingston Health Sciences Centre
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Peggy DeJong received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Waterloo and her medical degree from Queen’s University. Her clinical training consisted of Internal Medicine and Cardiology at Queen’s University. She completed an additional year at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver General Hospital in echocardiography. She joined the Division of Cardiology at Queen’s University in 2014. She was the Director of the Adult Cardiology training program at Queen's University from 2015-2019 and she currently serves as the Competency Based Medical Education Lead for the Adult Cardiology Residency Training Program.
Dr. DeJong’s chief academic interest is medical education. She is working on a Masters in Medical Education from Dundee University, Scotland (supported by the Department of Medicine, Queen’s University). She also developed the Competency Based Medical Education curriculum and assessments for the Cardiology training program at Queen’s University for the Queen’s University launch of CBME in July 2017, ahead of the national CBME launch for Cardiology in Canada. As a Metis Cardiologist, her other main focus is Indigenous Health education. She co-created and is co-teaching a course on Indigenous Health Education for the Master's of Health Professions Education at Queen's University.
Saturday, October 29, 2022
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT