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View article: Doing more with less: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Latino-serving community-based organizations
Doing more with less: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Latino-serving community-based organizations Open
Community-based organizations (CBOs) played a key role in providing health and safety net support to low-income Latino communities during the COVID-19 pandemic; yet we know little about how organizations navigated challenges during this ti…
View article: Lessons Learned: A Decade of Implementing an Interdisciplinary Airway Training Simulation Module
Lessons Learned: A Decade of Implementing an Interdisciplinary Airway Training Simulation Module Open
Importance Nontechnical skills are crucial in delivering critical and urgent patient care. Through our simulation module, we gear residents and interprofessional personnel with the knowledge and skills necessary to tackle complex airway em…
View article: Navigating the research landscape: How paradigms shape health professions education research
Navigating the research landscape: How paradigms shape health professions education research Open
Context The rich and varied landscape of Health Profession Education (HPE) research includes many different approaches to research practice, often reflecting different research paradigms and different ontological, epistemological and axiol…
View article: A taxonomy of research relationships
A taxonomy of research relationships Open
Conducting research is a deeply relational human endeavour – from the shared joy of engaging in an exciting project with a trusted research team to the complexities of navigating conflicting research priorities with a new collaborator. In …
View article: Considering the potential unintended consequences of RateMDs: an exploratory study in one specialty
Considering the potential unintended consequences of RateMDs: an exploratory study in one specialty Open
Background: Websites that facilitate communication between patients regarding their experiences with individual physicians are now relatively commonplace. Given patient-generated ratings are publicly available, physicians could use these t…
View article: Eight ways to get a grip on validity as a social imperative
Eight ways to get a grip on validity as a social imperative Open
Validity as a social imperative foregrounds the social consequences of assessment and highlights the importance of building quality into the assessment development and monitoring processes. Validity as a social imperative is informed by cu…
View article: Correction: The role of centre and country factors on process and outcome indicators in critically ill patients with hospital-acquired bloodstream infections
Correction: The role of centre and country factors on process and outcome indicators in critically ill patients with hospital-acquired bloodstream infections Open
When this article was published, the name of a contributor in the Acknowledgements was given wrongly. “Yerlan Ymbetzhanov” should be “Yerlan Umbetzhanov”. The original article has been corrected. The Authors apologize for the mistake.
View article: The race that never slows: Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery residency applicant parameters over time
The race that never slows: Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery residency applicant parameters over time Open
Background: There has been an increasing number of Canadian medical graduates who have gone unmatched in the residency selection process. Medical students have been engaging in extracurricular activities outside the formal curriculum which…
View article: Delineating Blurred Lines: The Experience of Defining Core Competencies in Canadian Surgical Residency Programs
Delineating Blurred Lines: The Experience of Defining Core Competencies in Canadian Surgical Residency Programs Open
Competency-based medical education (CBME) depends on identifying the outcomes necessary for a physician to be deemed “competent” in their field1 and building the curriculum and assessments needed to support the development of these compete…
View article: Digging Deeper, Zooming Out: Reimagining Legacies in Medical Education
Digging Deeper, Zooming Out: Reimagining Legacies in Medical Education Open
Although the wide-scale disruption precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic has somewhat subsided, there are many questions about the implications of such disruptions for the road ahead. This year’s Research in Medical Education (RIME) supple…
View article: If we assess, will they learn? Students’ perspectives on the complexities of assessment-for-learning
If we assess, will they learn? Students’ perspectives on the complexities of assessment-for-learning Open
Introduction: Assessment can positively influence learning, however designing effective assessment-for-learning interventions has proved challenging. We implemented a mandatory assessment-for-learning system comprising a workplace-based as…
View article: Learning strategy impacts medical diagnostic reasoning in early learners
Learning strategy impacts medical diagnostic reasoning in early learners Open
Relating learned information to similar yet new scenarios, transfer of learning, is a key characteristic of expert reasoning in many fields including medicine. Psychological research indicates that transfer of learning is enhanced via acti…
View article: Validity as a social imperative: users’ and leaders’ perceptions
Validity as a social imperative: users’ and leaders’ perceptions Open
Introduction: Recently, validity as a social imperative was proposed as an emerging conceptualization of validity in the assessment literature in health professions education (HPE). To further develop our understanding, we explored the per…
View article: Advancing the assessment of clinical reasoning across the health professions: Definitional and methodologic recommendations
Advancing the assessment of clinical reasoning across the health professions: Definitional and methodologic recommendations Open
The importance of clinical reasoning in patient care is well-recognized across all health professions. Validity evidence supporting high quality clinical reasoning assessment is essential to ensure health professional schools are graduatin…
View article: Learner handover: Perspectives and recommendations from the front-line
Learner handover: Perspectives and recommendations from the front-line Open
Introduction Current medical education models increasingly rely on longitudinal assessments to document learner progress over time. This longitudinal focus has re-kindled discussion regarding learner handover—where assessments are shared a…
View article: Nudging clinical supervisors to provide better in-training assessment reports
Nudging clinical supervisors to provide better in-training assessment reports Open
Introduction In-training assessment reports (ITARs) summarize assessment during a clinical placement to inform decision-making and provide formal feedback to learners. Faculty development is an effective but resource-intensive means of imp…
View article: The utility of failure: a taxonomy for research and scholarship
The utility of failure: a taxonomy for research and scholarship Open
Introduction Health professions education (HPE) research and scholarship utilizes a range of methodologies, traditions, and disciplines. Many conducting scholarship in HPE may not have had the opportunity to consider the value of a well-de…
View article: Teachers’ mindsets in medical education: A pilot survey of clinical supervisors
Teachers’ mindsets in medical education: A pilot survey of clinical supervisors Open
Purpose: Current medical education models maintain that competencies such as professionalism and communication can be taught; however, some argue that certain attributes that make up these competencies, such as empathy, are fixed. Teachers…
View article: Development and validation of a health profession education-focused scholarly mentorship assessment tool
Development and validation of a health profession education-focused scholarly mentorship assessment tool Open
Problem PhD-trained researchers working in health professions education (HPE) regularly engage in one-on-one, or one-on-few, scholarly mentorship activities. While this work is often a formal expectation of these scientists’ roles, rarely …
View article: Teaching communication skills to OTL-HNS residents: Multisource feedback and simulated scenarios
Teaching communication skills to OTL-HNS residents: Multisource feedback and simulated scenarios Open
Background Effective communication has been linked to a reduction in adverse events and improved patient compliance. Currently in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery (OTL-HNS) residency programs, there is limited explicit teaching of co…
View article: Managing the airway catastrophe: Longitudinal simulation-based curriculum to teach airway management
Managing the airway catastrophe: Longitudinal simulation-based curriculum to teach airway management Open
Background A longitudinal curriculum was developed in conjunction with anesthesiologists, otolaryngologists, emergency physicians and experts in medical simulation and education. Methods Residents participated in four different simulation-…