Education Scholarship 2023-2024

The MD Program supports the development of evidence-based best practices for pre-clinical and clinical learning, as well as assessment methodologies and program evaluation. Our MD faculty and administrators collaborate on research projects across a number of different disciplines and contribute their knowledge and expertise through a variety of scholarly activities including presentations and publications.

Publications

Journal Articles

Casas Lopez C, Lorello GR, Kim C, Liu E, Flexman AM. Current status of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Canadian departments of anesthesiology: a national survey and quality improvement audit. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia. June 2023.

Hrynyk N, Peel JK, Grace D, Lajoie J, Ng-Kamstra J, Kuper A, Carter M, Lorello GR. Queer(ing) Medical spaces: queer theory as a framework for transformative social change in anesthesiology and critical care medicine. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia. June 2023.

Lavecchia M, Myers J, Bainbridge D, Incardona N, Levine OH, Steinberg L, Schep D, Vautour J, Kumar SJ, Seow H. Education modalities for serious illness communication training: A scoping review on the impact on clinician behavior and patient outcomes. Journal of Clinical Oncology. June 2023.

Lorello GR, Hawryluck L. Like patients, practitioners are not cases: (re)humanizing the “case” report. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia. June 2023.

Alkhaifi M, Piercell E, Mooney S, Clayton A, Simpson JS. Introduction of a Patient as Teacher Program into family medicine residency: an exploratory pilot study. University of Toronto Medical Journal. July 2023.

Gill GK, Ng SL, Kangasjarvi E, Crukley J, Kumagai A, Simpson JS. From skillful to empathic: evaluating shifts in medical students' perceptions of surgeons through a combined patient as teacher and arts-based reflection program. Canadian Medical Education Journal. August 2023.

Sherwood M, Papadakos J, Kulasegaram K, Martimianakis MA, Kucharski E, Giuliani M. 135 Exploring Family Physician Training Needs to Improve Cancer Patient Care. Radiotherapy and Oncology. September 2023.

Khan H, McCaffrey C, Gagnon LH, Hui D, Sobel M, Shore EM. Letter: Evaluating the Impact of a Teaching Video on Medical Students’ Knowledge of Induction of Labour: A Pilot Project in Undergraduate Obstetrics Education. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada. October 2023.

Soussi S, Mehta S, Lorello GR. Equity, diversity, and inclusion in anaesthesia and critical care medicine: consider the various aspects of diversity. British Journal of Anaesthesia. October 2023.

Cartmill C, Rowland P, Rojas D, Cameron E, Whitehead C. Power/knowledge: A sociomaterial perspective on a new accreditation process during COVID-19. Medical Education. December 2023.

Sherwood M, Papadakos J, Kulasegaram K, Martimianakis MA, Kucharski E, Giuliani M. Exploring Family Physician Training Needs to Improve Cancer Patient Care. Journal of Cancer Education. December 2023.

Abdalla ME, Taha MH, Onchonga D, Magzoub ME, Au H, O'Donnell P, Neville S, Taylor D. Integrating the social determinants of health into curriculum: AMEE Guide No. 162. Medical Teacher. January 2024.

Khan A, Patel SJ, Anderson M, Baird JD, Johnson TM, Liss I, Graham DA, Calaman S, Fegley AE, Goldstein J, O’Toole JK, Rosenbluth G, Alminde C, Bass EJ, Bismilla Z, Caruth M, Coghlan-McDonald S, Cray S, Destino LA, Dreyer BP, Everhart JL, Good BP, Guiot AB, Haskell H, Hepps JH, Knighton AJ, Kocolas I, Kuzma NC, Lewis K, Litterer KP, Kruvand E, Markle P, Micalizzi DA, Patel A, Rogers JE, Subramony A, Vara T, Yin HS, Sectish TC, Srivastava R, Starmer AJ, West DC, Spector ND, Landrigan CP. Implementing a Family-Centered Rounds Intervention Using Novel Mentor-Trios. Pediatrics. February 2024

Lavecchia M, Myers J, Bainbridge D, Incardona N, Levine O, Steinberg L, Schep D, Vautour J, Kumar SJ, Seow H. Education modalities for serious illness communication training: A scoping review on the impact on clinician behavior and patient outcomes. Palliative Medicine. February 2024.

Lee MHY, Iyengar Y, Budiansky D, Veinot P, Law M. Exploring Medical Students’ Perceptions of Peer-to-Peer Interactions Related to Applying to a Surgical Residency. Journal of Surgical Education. February 2024.

Lorello GR, Schrewe B. Unmasking imposter syndrome: individual responsibility or repercussions of systemic oppression?. British Journal of Anaesthesia. February 2024.

Akuffo-Addo E, Dalson J, Agyei K, Mohsen S, Yusuf S, Juando-Prats C, Simpson JS. Barriers to Black Medical Students and Residents Pursuing and Completing Surgical Residency in Canada: A Qualitative Analysis.. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. March 2024.

Lorello GR, Hodwitz K, Issenberg SB, Brydges R. Relinquishing control? Supervisor co-regulation may disrupt students’ self-regulated learning during simulation-based training. Advances in Health Sciences Education. March 2024.

Onyura B, Fisher AJ, Wu Q, Rajkumar S, Chapagain S, Nassuna J, Rojas D, Nirula L. To prove or improve? Examining how paradoxical tensions shape evaluation practices in accreditation contexts. Medical Education. March 2024.

Design

Lake J. Drug Class Teaching: MD Formulary Videos.

Preprint

Huang RS, Lu KJQ, Meaney C, Kemppainen J, Punnett A, Leung F-H. Assessment of Resident and AI Chatbot Performance on the University of Toronto Family Medicine Residency Progress Test: Comparative Study. (Preprint).

Meaney C, Huang RS, Lu K, Fischer AW, Leung F-H, Kulasegaram K, Tzanetos K, Punnett A. Comparing the Performance of ChatGPT and GPT-4 versus a Cohort of Medical Students on an Official University of Toronto Undergraduate Medical Education Progress Test. (Preprint).