Warren J. Cheung
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View article: Medical student attitudes and perceptions of Point of Care Ultrasound curriculum and assessment methods: a multisite survey
Medical student attitudes and perceptions of Point of Care Ultrasound curriculum and assessment methods: a multisite survey Open
View article: Home Field Advantage? Comparing the Quality of EPA Observations Completed On- vs Off-Service
Home Field Advantage? Comparing the Quality of EPA Observations Completed On- vs Off-Service Open
Background Increasing evidence suggests that supervisors exhibit different assessment behaviors for residents from their own discipline compared to those completing a rotation from another discipline. As programs of assessment rely on coll…
View article: A Novel Model of Patient Handover in Emergency Medicine—Addressing Hidden Tensions in Culture
A Novel Model of Patient Handover in Emergency Medicine—Addressing Hidden Tensions in Culture Open
Introduction Clinical handover (or handoff), the transfer of patient care between providers, is essential in Emergency Medicine. Poor communication during handover can threaten patient safety. Existing literature views handover as an infor…
View article: Resident and Attending Physician Perspectives on Indirect Observation in Competency-Based Medical Education.
Resident and Attending Physician Perspectives on Indirect Observation in Competency-Based Medical Education. Open
Background Despite calls for increased direct observation for workplace feedback and assessment, such forms of observation are not always feasible. A considerable amount of trainee observation occurs via indirect means. Objective…
View article: Workplace-based Assessment Data in Emergency Medicine: A Scoping Review of the Literature
Workplace-based Assessment Data in Emergency Medicine: A Scoping Review of the Literature Open
Objective: In the era of competency-based medical education (CBME), the collection of more and more trainee data is being mandated by accrediting bodies such as the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the Royal College…
View article: Workplace-based Assessment Data in Emergency Medicine: A Scoping Review of the Literature
Workplace-based Assessment Data in Emergency Medicine: A Scoping Review of the Literature Open
Objective: In the era of competency-based medical education (CBME), the collection of more and more trainee data is being mandated by accrediting bodies such as the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the Royal College…
View article: Eight ways to support faculty with Entrustable Professional Activities
Eight ways to support faculty with Entrustable Professional Activities Open
Competency Based Medical Education (CBME) is pushing the medical profession to be more accountable in our standards of assessment. This has led us to focus our efforts at the top of Miller’s pyramid, where we aim to see what the trainee ‘d…
View article: Eight ways to support faculty with Entrustable Professional Activities
Eight ways to support faculty with Entrustable Professional Activities Open
Competency Based Medical Education (CBME) is pushing the medical profession to be more accountable in our standards of assessment. This has led us to focus our efforts at the top of Miller’s pyramid, where we aim to see what the trainee ‘d…
View article: Eight ways to support faculty with Entrustable Professional Activities
Eight ways to support faculty with Entrustable Professional Activities Open
Competency Based Medical Education (CBME) is pushing the medical profession to be more accountable in our standards of assessment. This has led us to focus our efforts at the top of Miller’s pyramid, where we aim to see what the trainee ‘d…
View article: Competence By Design: a transformational national model of time-variable competency-based postgraduate medical education
Competence By Design: a transformational national model of time-variable competency-based postgraduate medical education Open
Postgraduate medical education is an essential societal enterprise that prepares highly skilled physicians for the health workforce. In recent years, PGME systems have been criticized worldwide for problems with variable graduate abilities…
View article: Design and Implementation of a National Program of Assessment Model – Integrating Entrustable Professional Activity Assessments in Canadian Specialist Postgraduate Medical Education
Design and Implementation of a National Program of Assessment Model – Integrating Entrustable Professional Activity Assessments in Canadian Specialist Postgraduate Medical Education Open
Traditional approaches to assessment in health professions education systems, which have generally focused on the summative function of assessment through the development and episodic use of individual high-stakes examinations, may no long…
View article: Implementing Competence Committees on a National Scale: Design and Lessons Learned
Implementing Competence Committees on a National Scale: Design and Lessons Learned Open
Competence committees (CCs) are a recent innovation to improve assessment decision-making in health professions education. CCs enable a group of trained, dedicated educators to review a portfolio of observations about a learner's progress …
View article: Evaluating Competence by Design as a Large System Change Initiative: Readiness, Fidelity, and Outcomes
Evaluating Competence by Design as a Large System Change Initiative: Readiness, Fidelity, and Outcomes Open
Program evaluation is an essential, but often neglected, activity in any transformational educational change. Competence by Design was a large-scale change initiative to implement a competency-based time-variable educational system in Cana…
View article: Coaching in Competence by Design: A New Model of Coaching in the Moment and Coaching Over Time to Support Large Scale Implementation
Coaching in Competence by Design: A New Model of Coaching in the Moment and Coaching Over Time to Support Large Scale Implementation Open
Coaching is an increasingly popular means to provide individualized, learner-centered, developmental guidance to trainees in competency based medical education (CBME) curricula. Aligned with CBME's core components, coaching can assist in l…
View article: Only as Strong as the Weakest Link: Resident Perspectives on Entrustable Professional Activities and Their Impact on Learning
Only as Strong as the Weakest Link: Resident Perspectives on Entrustable Professional Activities and Their Impact on Learning Open
Background Core to competency-based medical education (CBME) is the use of frequent low-stakes workplace-based assessments. In the Canadian context, these observations of performance are framed around entrustable professional activities (E…
View article: Assessing the utility of a novel entrustment‐supervision assessment tool
Assessing the utility of a novel entrustment‐supervision assessment tool Open
Background Work‐based assessments (WBAs) are increasingly used to inform decisions about trainee progression. Unfortunately, WBAs often fail to discriminate between trainees of differing abilities and have poor reliability. Entrustment‐sup…
View article: Point-of-Care-ultrasound in undergraduate medical education: a scoping review of assessment methods
Point-of-Care-ultrasound in undergraduate medical education: a scoping review of assessment methods Open
View article: The influence of clinical coaching teams on quality of entrustable professional activity assessments
The influence of clinical coaching teams on quality of entrustable professional activity assessments Open
Background Coaching is an important component of workplace‐based assessment in competency‐based medical education. Longitudinal coaching relationships have been proposed to enhance the trainee–supervisor relationship and promote high‐quali…
View article: Examining enablers and barriers to entrustable professional activity acquisition using the theoretical domains framework: A qualitative framework analysis study
Examining enablers and barriers to entrustable professional activity acquisition using the theoretical domains framework: A qualitative framework analysis study Open
Background Without a clear understanding of the factors contributing to the effective acquisition of high‐quality entrustable professional activity (EPA) assessments, trainees, supervising faculty, and training programs may lack appropriat…
View article: Data-Informed Medicine in CanMEDS 2025
Data-Informed Medicine in CanMEDS 2025 Open
View article: Gender differences in emergency medicine resident assessment: A scoping review
Gender differences in emergency medicine resident assessment: A scoping review Open
Background Growing literature within postgraduate medical education demonstrates that female resident physicians experience gender bias throughout their training and future careers. This scoping review aims to describe the current body of …
View article: Validity evidence for the Quality of Assessment for Learning score: a quality metric for supervisor comments in Competency Based Medical Education
Validity evidence for the Quality of Assessment for Learning score: a quality metric for supervisor comments in Competency Based Medical Education Open
Background: Competency based medical education (CBME) relies on supervisor narrative comments contained within entrustable professional activities (EPA) for programmatic assessment, but the quality of these supervisor comments is unassesse…
View article: Does direct observation influence the quality of workplace‐based assessment documentation?
Does direct observation influence the quality of workplace‐based assessment documentation? Open
Background A key component of competency‐based medical education (CBME) is direct observation of trainees. Direct observation has been emphasized as integral to workplace‐based assessment (WBA) yet previously identified challenges may limi…
View article: Five ways to get a grip on designing medical student clerkship clinical rotations during a pandemic
Five ways to get a grip on designing medical student clerkship clinical rotations during a pandemic Open
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the task of preparing students for workplace-based clerkship and supporting learners’ ongoing professional identity formation became incrementally more challenging. The former design of clerkship rotations was…
View article: Experiences, perspectives, and advice for using virtual interviews in post-graduate trainee selection: a national survey of CCFP (EM) program directors
Experiences, perspectives, and advice for using virtual interviews in post-graduate trainee selection: a national survey of CCFP (EM) program directors Open
View article: The relationship between empathy and the quality of the educational environment in Canadian emergency medicine residents
The relationship between empathy and the quality of the educational environment in Canadian emergency medicine residents Open
View article: Do Resident Archetypes Influence the Functioning of Programs of Assessment?
Do Resident Archetypes Influence the Functioning of Programs of Assessment? Open
While most case studies consider how programs of assessment may influence residents’ achievement, we engaged in a qualitative, multiple case study to model how resident engagement and performance can reciprocally influence the program of a…
View article: Ready, set, go! Evaluating readiness to implement competency-based medical education
Ready, set, go! Evaluating readiness to implement competency-based medical education Open
Organizational readiness is critical for successful implementation of an innovation. We evaluated program readiness to implement Competence by Design (CBD), a model of Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME), among Canadian postgraduate …
View article: Developing the next generation of medical educators: assessing the impact of a clinical teaching elective offered to senior medical students
Developing the next generation of medical educators: assessing the impact of a clinical teaching elective offered to senior medical students Open
View article: Characterizing the biomechanical differences between novice and expert point‐of‐care ultrasound practitioners using a low‐cost gyroscope and accelerometer integrated sensor: A pilot study
Characterizing the biomechanical differences between novice and expert point‐of‐care ultrasound practitioners using a low‐cost gyroscope and accelerometer integrated sensor: A pilot study Open
Introduction Point‐of‐care ultrasound (POCUS) has become an important diagnostic tool in acute care medicine; however, little is known about the biomechanical differences between novice and expert practitioners. Methods A low‐cost ($50 CAD…