Event

Medical Education Rounds: Work-Based Assessment: Is Competence in the Eye of the Beholder?

Thursday, March 17, 2016 16:00to17:30
McIntyre Medical Building Meakins Amphiteatre, 5th Floor, 3655 promenade Sir William Osler, Montreal, QC, H3G 1Y6, CA

Session Goals:

  • Discuss challenges in designing assessment for competency-based education in the health professions.
  • Examine some of the most salient evidence in how raters assess learners’ performance.
  • Explore future directions for research related to the impact of cognitive and emotional factors on rater judgments.
     

VALÉRIE DORY, MD, PhD, MMedEd, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Centre for Medical Education. She trained as a family physician in Belgium and became interested in medical education after her residency. She conducted her PhD on the topic of resident self-assessment at her alma mater, Université catholique de Louvain. She then obtained a Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique-FNRS postdoctoral grant to pursue her research on the assessment of clinical reasoning full-time. She is now the lead for assessment and evaluation in Undergraduate Medical Education at McGill University.

Her current research interests include: assessment, particularly of clinical reasoning; epistemological beliefs (beliefs about what knowledge is and what it means to know) and their development in medical school.

CARLOS GOMEZ-GARIBELLO, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine and the Centre of Medical Education. He earned his doctoral degree in Educational Psychology at McGill University. His areas of interest include assessment and evaluation methods at the postgraduate level. Specifically, Carlos is interested in the development and implementation of work–based assessment initiatives and the measurement and evaluation of intrinsic roles. He has experience in the design of quantitative educational research and in the analysis and interpretation of statistical and psychometric techniques. He is currently the lead for assessment and evaluation in Postgraduate Medical Education at McGill University.

 

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