- Director's Message
- Axes of Research
- Researchers
- Students
- Collaborators
- Success Stories
- FMER Advanced Research Seminars
Message from the Director
On behalf of our entire group of researchers, collaborators and affiliated students, it is a pleasure to welcome you to the McGill Family Medicine Education Research Group (FMER) website.
The FMER came into being in May 2014, when a group of eight clinicians, educators and researchers in family medicine decided to pull together their experience and expertise to promote family medicine education research. The FMER was in fact the corollary of the educational innovations in teaching and research conceived and established at the McGill Department of Family Medicine since 2005. Family physicians and academic departments of family medicine are called to play a critical role in contemporary healthcare and medical education reforms. Being sensitive to the educational priorities of the different family medicine stakeholders, advocating for research plurality, and properly and timely translating the results of our investigations to all knowledge users, we aspire to significantly contribute to the advancement of the family medicine education research field of inquiry at the local, national and international levels.
The FMER has expanded over time, and currently includes 12 researchers, 12 collaborators and four MSc and PhD affiliated students. As Director of FMER, it is a privilege for me to work with an outstanding group of scholars and research trainees deeply committed to academic excellence, innovation, and community service. I kindly invite you to visit our website. It has been conceived not only to inform about our research projects, academic events, and scholarly achievements, but also (and importantly) as a privileged means for exchanging with all of those interested in family medicine education research around the world.
I hope you enjoy your e-visit. Looking forward to hearing from you!
Charo Rodríguez, MD, MSc, PhD
Marion Dove, Gillian Bartlett, Roland Grad, Leonora Lalla, Pierre Pluye, Miriam Boillat, Pierre-Paul Tellier, and Charo Rodriguez.
Inaugural members, 2014. Taken by: Heidi Hollinger
Axes of Research
The FMER goal is to contribute to the advancement of knowledge to support family medicine educational innovations and academic excellence in continuing professional development of practicing and academic family physicians and the training of students (clinicians, clinician-researchers, researchers). Based on the expertise developed, the FMER scientific program is structured in the following five axes of research:
1. Information technologies and artificial intelligence in family physicians’ continuing professional development;
2. Professional identity formation;
3. Mentorship in family medicine education;
4. Family medicine education program evaluation;
5. Scoping and systematic literature reviews.
What motivates FMER researchers, collaborators, and associated graduate students to work together is their common goal to contribute to the development of medical education research in family medicine, a field of inquiry still poorly developed. What is more, as Quebec researchers, we aim to place our province as international leader in this emerging domain. Such a position will allow to further progress and attract the best and brightest master’s, doctoral students, and postdoctoral fellows in the years to come.
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Rear line of researchers: Gillian Bartlett, Roland Grad, Peter Nugus, Pierre Pluye, Miriam Boillat, Pierre-Paul Tellier.
Front line of researchers (all sat down): Marion Dove, Leonora Lalla, Tibor Schuster, Charo Rodriguez.
FMER members, 2017. Taken by: Heidi Hollinger
Students
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Collaborators
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Emmanuelle Bélanger
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Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research Brown University School of Public Health |
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Martin Desseilles
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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, Namur University
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Laure Fiquet
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Département de médecine générale, Faculté de Médecine Université de Rennes 1 |
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Richard Hovey
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Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University
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Steven Jordan
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Department of Interdisciplinary Sciences in Education, Faculty of Education McGill University |
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Sofía López-Roig
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Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health, Faculty of Medicine Miguel Hernández University |
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Maria Angeles Pastor-Mira
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Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health, Faculty of Medicine Miguel Hernández University |
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Teresa Pawlikowska
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Health Professions Education Center, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
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Salvador Pertusa-Martínez
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Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Universidad Miguel Hernández |
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Torsten Risør
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Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø
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François-Xavier Schweyer
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École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique de Rennes.
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Allen Shaughnessy
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Department of Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
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Mark Yaffe
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Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University
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Success Stories
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Charo Rodriguez April 2021 |
Congratulations to Charo Rodriguez who, as a member of a research team led by Dr. Annick Giguere (Laval University), has published the article entitled ‘Family Medicine Supervisors’ Preferences for Improving Their Teaching Skills in Senior Care’ in the April 2021 issue of the journal Family Medicine. |
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Samira Rahimi March 2021 |
Congratulations to Samira Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi who, in collaboration with Iranian and Canadian scholars, has published the article entitled ‘Continuing professional education of Iranian healthcare professionals in shared decision-making: lessons learned’ on March 12, 2021 in the international journal BMC Health Services Research. Click here to have access to this publication |
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Pierre Pluye March 2021 |
Congratulations to Pierre Pluye, Full Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, for being the 2021 recipient of the Doctoral Teaching Award by the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools (NAGS). The NAGS recognizes excellence and creativity in the teaching of doctoral students, and innovation in graduate curriculum development and implementation. |
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Roland Grad January 2021 |
Congratulations to Roland Grad who has published the article entitled “Does spaced education improve clinical knowledge among Family Medicine residents? A cluster randomized controlled trial” in the journal Advances in Health Sciences Education. Click here to have access to this publication |
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Charo Rodriguez December 2020 |
Congratulations to Charo Rodríguez who, in collaboration with FMER Collaborators Professors Richard Hovey (Dentistry) and Steven Jordan (Education), has published the article entitled ‘Beyond Lecturing: An Introduction to Gadamer’s Dialogical Hermeneutics with Insights into Health Professions Education’ in the December 2020 issue of the international journal Health Professions Education. Click here to have access to this publication |
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Pierre-Paul Tellier November 2020 |
Congratulations to Pierre-Paul Tellier, who was awarded the 2020 College of Family Physicians of Canada, Reg L Perkins Award for Family Physician of the Year for Quebec. |
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David Felipe Ortiz-Paredes September 9, 2020 |
Congratulations to David Felipe Ortiz-Paredes, MSc 2019, who has received a very competitive Research Paper Award at the AMEE 2020 Virtual Conference, Category Continuing Professional Development. His presentation was entitled "Family Doctor, Educator and Learner: Managing Professional Identities in an International Blended Education Program for Faculty Development" and was based on his work in the MSc program in Family Medicine – Medical Education Concentration. |
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Charo Rodriguez July 24, 2020 |
Congratulations to Charo Rodríguez, who was awarded the 2020-2021 Jonathan Campbell Meakins and Family Memorial Fellowship by the McGill Institute of Health Sciences Education (IHSE). This Fellowship is designed to reward and promote excellence in medical education. |
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Pierre-Paul Tellier July, 2020
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Congratulations to Dr. Pierre-Paul Tellier, who is the 2020 recipient of the Haile T. Debas Prize. The award was established in 2010 by the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University in order to recognize outstanding faculty members who have worked hard to help promote diversity and create an environment of inclusivity. |
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Kathleen Rice July, 2020 |
Congratulations to Dr. Kathleen Rice, who was granted a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Medical Anthropology of Primary Care. |
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Pierre-Paul Tellier May 25, 2020 |
Congratulations to Pierre-Paul Tellier, who was awarded 2020 Family Physician of the Year by the Quebec College of Family Physicians. |
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Peter Nugus May 12, 2020 |
Congratulations to Peter Nugus, who was awarded 2020-2021 FRQS Chercheur-boursier Junior 2 – Volet Santé-Société for his research program ‘From Structures to Individuals: How to Encourage Care Coordination across Professional, Organizational, and Systemic Boundaries’. |
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Samira Abbasgholizadeh-Rahimi April 30, 2020 |
Congratulations to Samira Abbasgholizadeh-Rahimi, who was awarded 2020-2021 FRQS Chercheur-boursier Junior 1 for her research program ‘Human-centered Artificial Intelligence for Primary Health Care’, with co-funding from the Unité de Soutien-SRAP Québec. Samira’s application was ranked 1st out of the 23 evaluated by the Health and Society Committee. |
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Anish Arora April 30, 2020 |
Congratulations to Anish Arora, master’s student affiliated with the FMER from 2017 to 2019, who was awarded 2020-2021 FRQS Doctoral Award, with co-funding from the Unité de Soutien-SRAP Québec. Anish’s application was ranked 2nd out of the 14 assessed by the Evaluation Committee. |
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Stephanie Long April 30, 2020 |
Congratulations to Stephanie Long, master’s student affiliated with the FMER from 2016 to 2018, who was awarded 2020-2021 FRQS Doctoral Award, with co-funding from the Unité de Soutien-SRAP Québec. |
