Rola Ajjawi is Professor of Educational Research at the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) at Deakin University, Australia. She has a Bachelor's Honours Degree in Physiotherapy and worked as a physiotherapist and clinical educator before moving into academia full-time with the completion of her PhD in 2007. Since then, she has led a program of research centred on work-integrated learning with an interest in inclusion, assessment, and feedback in the workplace. Rola i...
May 01, 2023•28 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Professor Samar Abdelazim Ahmed is Vice-Dean for Education at Dubai Medical School for Girls, having previously been full professor in forensic medicine at Ain Shams University, Cairo. She is the Founding Director of the FAIMER Fellowship in Health Professions Education ASU-MENA-FRI and the associate editor for Medical Education in the Frontiers. Samar has extensive experience in quality assurance and evaluation in medical education, including strategic planning and implementation and the develo...
Apr 17, 2023•23 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Dr Laura Zwaan, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Medical Education Research Rotterdam (iMERR) of the Erasmus MC. She has a cognitive psychology and epidemiology background and obtained a PhD from the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam. Dr Zwaan is an active member of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM). She initiated the European Diagnostic Error in Medicine conferences and served as the chair of their research committee (2015- 2017). For her efforts to im...
Mar 30, 2023•13 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Bridget O’Brien, PhD, is a Professor of Medicine and an education scientist in the Center for Faculty Educators at the University of California, San Francisco. As co-director of the Teaching Scholars Program and the UCSF-University of Utrecht Health Professions Education doctoral program, she teaches and mentors faculty and learners interested in education research and scholarship. At the San Francisco VA, she directs the Advanced Fellowship in Health Professions Education Evaluation and Researc...
Mar 16, 2023•17 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Nikolaos worked as a dentist for seven years before becoming a senior consultant in orofacial pain in 2011. That year he was awarded nationally and internationally for his research on mechanisms and factors associated with human orofacial pain. In 2017 he became an associate professor and senior lecturer at the Karolinska Institutet. He was elected Vice president for the Neuroscience group in IADR (2022-2024) and recently became Programme Director for the Study programme in Dentistry. Alongside ...
Mar 01, 2023•16 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Chris Watling is a medical education researcher at Western University’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry in London, Canada. Trained as a neurologist, he embarked on a mid-career journey of graduate work and professional development to create the foundation for a program of research and scholarship in education. As a researcher, Chris studies why doctors are difficult to coach, why feedback frequently misses the mark, and why professional culture so often undermines the best-laid curricu...
Feb 17, 2023•20 min
Christina St-Onge is professor in the Department of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec. She completed her PhD at Université Laval in Measurement and Assessment in 2007 and she did her post-doctorate fellowship at the Medical Council of Canada. Since 2008, Christina has been a scientist at the CPSS – Centre for Health Sciences Education. Her research program stems from a psychometric perspective; wanting to quantify measurement error and dist...
Feb 04, 2023•23 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Professor Madawa Chandratilake is a Professor Of Medical Education, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. He has published 29 research articles in journals, six book chapters, and more than 40 conference papers contributed as author/co-author and he has completed six funded research projects as a member of a team. In his program of research, he is attempting to understand the impact of culture on professionalism in health professions. The differences in the importance...
Jan 19, 2023•17 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Dr. Lara Varpio completed her PhD in 2007 at the University of Waterloo, Canada in collaboration with the Wilson Centre for Research in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her award-winning PhD research investigated the impact of Electronic Health Records on medical trainee socialization. She spent the first 6 years of her career with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and the Academy for Innovation in Medical Education. Then in 2013, Dr. Varpio moved to Was...
Jan 05, 2023•22 min
Anna Pettersson is Assistant Professor and Programme Director at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. She received her Ph.D. in physiotherapy in 2005 and her MSc in medical education in 2013. Anna has extensive experience in educational development and pedagogical leadership as a member of the board of education and is a member of the Pedagogical Academy at the Karolinska Institutet. Her research interest lies within learning, educational research, and quality with a particular interest in profes...
Dec 15, 2022•17 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Professor Paul Tiffin is Professor of Health Services and Workforce Research at the University of York and Hull York Medical School and an Honorary Consultant Adolescent Psychiatrist. Paul is a quantitative methodologist who seeks to measure personal characteristics and abilities in order to make predictions about future performance and behaviours. His academic work is focused on eliciting and measuring psychological phenomena (psychometrics) and linking these to outcomes. These include future e...
Dec 01, 2022•22 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Anique de Bruin is Professor of Self-regulation in Higher Education and Vice-director of the School of Health Professions Education at Maastricht University. Her research centres around questions of metacognitive and self-regulatory processes in learning. She is particularly fascinated by how subjective learning experiences shape self-regulation of learning, and how effective instructional design and strategy training can support self-regulation. She recently developed a novel research line rela...
Nov 17, 2022•20 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Dr Kulamakan (Mahan) Kulasegaram is a Scientist at the Wilson Centre and Temerty Faculty of Medicine, where is the Temerty Chair in Learner Assessment and Program Evaluation. Additionally, he is an Associate Professor and Director of the Office of Education Scholarship in the Department of Family & Community Medicine. Mahan’s research advances our understanding of how assessment can help learners develop clinical reasoning and how education programs can use assessment as a tool for systems a...
Nov 04, 2022•16 min•Season 2Ep. 2
In this first episode of the KIPRIME podcast 2022, Dr Liselotte Dyrbye talks to Alina Jenkins about her key research areas, including human-centred design processes to improve the learning and work environment and how to better influence change within medical education and the impact of stress on cognition and behaviors. Dr Dyrbe is Professor of Medicine, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty and Chief Well-Being Officer at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She completed her medical trai...
Oct 20, 2022•28 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Professor Henk Schmidt was the first winner of the Karolinska Prize for Research in Medical Education in 2004. He is a professor of psychology at Erasmus University’s faculty of social sciences and founding dean of its problem-based psychology curriculum. Between 2009 and 2013, he was the Vice-Chancellor (‘Rector Magnificus’) of Erasmus University in Rotterdam. His research in the field of medical education is outstanding and highly original. His special research areas are problem-based learning...
Apr 14, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Professor Ronald Harden is a world leader in medical education. He is committed to developing new approaches to curriculum planning, assessment and to teaching and learning. Ideas which he has pioneered include the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) which has been universally adopted as a standard approach to assessment of clinical competence, the spiral curriculum and the SPICES model for curriculum planning and models for outcome-based education. He has published more than 400 pa...
Apr 07, 2021•19 min
Dr Richard Reznick is Professor of Surgery and Dean Emeritus at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He received his undergraduate university education and medical degree from McGill University, followed by a general surgical residency at the University of Toronto. He spent two years in fellowship training, first obtaining a Masters’ degree in medical education from Southern Illinois University, followed by a fellowship in colorectal surgery at the University of Texas in Houston, Texas. Sinc...
Mar 31, 2021•27 min
Dr Geoff Norman is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University, Ontario. He received a B.Sc. in physics from the University of Manitoba in 1965 and a Ph.D in nuclear physics from McMaster University in 1971. He then changed tack, and after an M.A in educational psychology he moved into the world of medical education research. His primary research has been in the area of expert diagnostic reasoning which has revealed that experts use two kinds of knowledge to do di...
Mar 17, 2021•24 min
Dr Norcini spent 25 years with the American Board of Internal Medicine serving as Director of Psychometrics, Executive Vice President for Evaluation and Research, and Executive Vice President of the Institute for Clinical Evaluation. From 2002 until 2019 he was President and CEO of FAIMER, the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research where he established numerous worldwide initiatives and programs in medical education, research, and data resource development. In...
Mar 09, 2021•19 min
Dr Cees van der Vleuten, PhD, has been at the University of Maastricht since 1982. In 1996 he was appointed Professor of Education and chair of the Department of Educational Development and Research in the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, a position he held for 18 years. From 2005 until 2020 he was the Scientific Director of the School of Health Professions Education. His successor is KIPRIME fellow and previous guest in this series, Dr Pim Teunissen. He mentors many researchers in...
Mar 02, 2021•22 min
Dr Shiphra Ginsburg is a professor of medicine at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, a staff physician at Mount Sinai Hospital and a scientist at the Wilson Centre for Research in Education. She is also the Canada Research Chair in Health Professions Education. Her research looks at the assessment of learners in health professions education - an area which has historically focused on numeric scores, rating scales and standardized, “objective” tests. This has led to a situati...
Feb 23, 2021•22 min
Dr Meredith Young is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Health Sciences Education at McGill University in Montreal. She earned her PhD in cognitive psychology from McMaster University studying how individuals (both with and without medical expertise) think through a variety of complex problems in medicine. Her current work examines how problems get solved in Health Professions Education, and the assumptions that underpin what we think makes a good solution. She explores this topic in thr...
Feb 16, 2021•20 min
Dr Rashmi Kusurkar was born and raised in India where she qualified as a medical doctor with specialization in physiology before moving to the Netherlands in 2008 to pursue her PHD in medical education. Rashmi has been instrumental in setting up Research in Education at VUmc School of Medical Sciences in Amsterdam, and headed this department until 2020. She currently works as a Research Programme Leader at Research in Education at Amsterdam UMC. She is fascinated by how and why students learn di...
Feb 08, 2021•23 min
Dr Pim Teunissen is Scientific Director of SHE, the School of Health Professions Education at Maastricht University in The Netherlands. His background is as a medical specialist in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and he uses his clinical experience to inform his research and vice versa. In 2009 he obtained his doctorate from VU University on the subject of 'Workplace learning in postgraduate medical education'. Since then, his research has expanded to cover learning and education in various health pr...
Feb 02, 2021•23 min
Terese Stenfors is an associate professor in Medical Education at Karolinska Institutet and is the director of the Evaluation Unit. Her background is in Social Science and she’s previously worked with academic development. Her current research explores the contribution of interpersonal relationships between patients and health care professionals to advance patient health care. As chronic illness and co-morbidity increases within our general population, these relationships assume a pivotal role. ...
Jan 26, 2021•17 min
A native of Taiwan, Dr Ming Jung-Ho received an undergraduate degree in Biological Anthropology at Harvard, a medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania, and a doctorate in Social Anthropology at Oxford University in the UK. She is currently Associate Director at the Center for Innovation and Leadership in Education at Georgetown University and Director of Education Research at MedStar Health. Dr Ho has spent the last 12 years studying medical professionalism across cultures. As an anthrop...
Jan 19, 2021•15 min
Dr Liz Molloy is Professor in Work Integrated Learning in the Department of Medical Education at Melbourne Medical School and Academic Director of Interprofessional Education and Practice in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. Liz’s area of research looks at workplace learning and interprofessional education with a particular focus on feedback and the way feedback literacy is enacted in the health workplace. Despite teachers’ commitment to feedback as an important mechanism f...
Jan 13, 2021•20 min
Dr Dawit Wondimagegn is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Addis Abba University School of Medicine and Chief Executive Director of Tikur Anbessa Hospital in Ethiopia. The central tenet of his work is the exploration of power dynamics and equity in the context of global health educational partnerships. These are unique opportunities for mutual learning and development, however historical factors determined the import/export model to be dominant. His research as part of a group of global commun...
Jan 06, 2021•21 min•Season 1Ep. 11
With a background in human-machine interaction and interaction design, Klas Karlgren brings a design science research methodology and a ’designerly’ approach to research. After finishing his PHD in human machine interaction, he came to the Karolinska Institutet to start his post-doc where continued his work on designing, creating and developing technologies to support and analyse learning in the field of medical education. Since he arrived at Karolinska in 2004 this has remained focus of his wor...
Dec 29, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Originally from the Netherlands where he obtained his PhD in Educational Psychology from Erasmus University Rotterdam, Jerome Rotgans is Assistant Professor of Medical Education Research at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine in Singapore where he is also the Assistant Dean for Assessment and Lead for Learning Strategies. Jerome is active in two research areas. The first is diagnostic reasoning in medicine. He and his colleagues have studied the effects of time pressure and interruptions on the di...
Dec 21, 2020•22 min
