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Education Scholarship 2025-2026
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
Articles
Alkhaifi, M., Zhang, E., Kennedy, S., Peera, M., Baetz-Dougan, M., Sirianni, G., Jones, J. | Roberts, A., Zaitoun, S., Parthipan, M., Papneja, P., Gasner, A., Kwan, J., Meaney, C., Simpson, J., Nyhof-Young, J. The implementation of a novel adult cancer survivorship curriculum in a family medicine residency program: a mixed methods study. Supportive Care in Cancer. 2025.
Al Maawali, A., Puran, A., Talarico, S., Bismilla, Z. Unintended consequences of a night float system in Paediatric Residency. Paediatrics and Child Health (Canada). 2025.
Arora, A.K., Seow, H., Bainbridge, D., Kulasegaram, K., Apramian, T., Incardona, N., Steinberg, L., Sanders, J., Jia, Z., Levine, O., Simon, J., Zhang, K., Freitas, Z., Fuller, C. | Ordons, A.L.R.D., Dombroski, J., Myers, J. Multi-methods development and validation of a tool for use in measuring serious illness communication competence: Assessment of clinical encounters – Communication tool (ACE-CT). Patient Education and Counseling. 2026.
Bailey, K., Farahani, E., Raval, S., Lin, K.X., Nasser, M., Hersh, J., Khan, F., Chugh, S., Sharfuddin, N. Evaluating the implementation of a longitudinal cocurricular experiential quality improvement training programme for undergraduate medical students. BMJ Open Quality. 2025.
Bollela, V.R., Burch, V., Dharanipragada, K., Frambach, J., Grant, J., Haruna-Cooper, L. | Kabiri, H., Kelly, J., Martimianakis, M.-A., Menezes da Silva, F., Mohsen, L., Nicholson, J.-G., Rashid, M.A., Rojas, D., Tackett, S., Whitehead, C.R., Wondimagegn, D., Zaini, R. Global research agenda for medical education regulation: findings from a nominal group consensus exercise. BMJ Global Health. 2025.
Chaudhari, H., Meaney, C., Kulasegaram, K., Leung, F.-H. Evaluating ChatGPT-4 in the development of family medicine residency examinations. PLOS Digital Health. 2025.
Chaukos, D., Genus, S., Guimond, T., Mylopoulos, M. From “Community of Practice” to “Knowledge Building Community”—A qualitative study of project ECHO as facilitator of adaptive expertise in frontline community workers. Learning Health Systems. 2025.
Dang, K.T., Wiebe, C., Teshima, J., Broquet, K., Joshi, S.V., Hilty, D.M. “How Do You Think That Went?”: A Peer Feedback Process for Workshop Presenters at an Academic Meeting. Academic Psychiatry. 2025.
Day, L.B., Butler, D., Kuper, A., Shah, R., Stroud, L., Ginsburg, S., Tavares, W., Brydges, R. (Mis)Alignment in resident and advisor co-regulated learning in competency-based training. Medical Education. 2025.
Fang, T., Qureshi, M.A., Jdiaa, S.S., Aboghanem, A., Yeung, K., Saad, M., Razzak, M.A., Mohammed, A.S., Ahmed, R., Alkurdi, A., Kek, K., Hysi, E., Zahirieh, A., Yuen, D.A., Young, A. Development and Evaluation of a Kidney Point-Of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Training Program for Nephrology Fellows: A Quality Improvement Study. Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease. 2025.
Fenwick, P., Tse, E., Nicoll, G., Chaukos, D., Furqan, Z., Lustig, A., Sinyor, M., Soklaridis, S., Stergiopoulos, V., Zaheer, J. Impact of patient suicide on psychiatry residents: protocol of a qualitative study. BMJ Open. 2025.
Gerges, S., Mailloux, G., Visvalingam, B., Wilson, L., Dubins, D., Lake, J., Wilkinson, S. A prescription for Intraprofessional education: Bridging the gap between pharmacy and pharmacy technician students. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning. 2026.
Huang, R.S., Sood, T., Nelms, M., Wintraub, L., Leung, F.-H. Addressing the challenges of field notes in medical education: a qualitative study of resident experiences. BMC Medical Education. 2025.
Kalocsai, C., Fernando, O., Tesfaye, M., Weiss, S., Kuper, A., Tinmouth, J., Daneman, N., Andrade, M., Norris, M. Sparking justice under the aegis of pragmatism: A mentorship program for Black and Indigenous students in Canadian medicine. Social Science and Medicine. 2025.
Kim, D.-H., Gandomkar, R., Yoo, H.H., Rojas, D. Beyond intentions: a critical narrative review of accreditation’s planned and emergent impact on medical schools. Advances in Health Sciences Education. 2026.
Lacasse, M., Renaud, J.-S., Grundland, B., Hubinette, M.M., Leung, F.-H., van der Goes, T. Comparison of horizontal and traditional block family medicine curricula Canadian study. Canadian Family Physician. 2025.
Lee, J., Healey, C., Antowan, D., Aggarwal, R., Truong, M., Palmer, K., Hammond, E., Li, M., Li, C., Sharfuddin, N. Meds in Medicine Seminar Series (MIMSS): Integrating pharmacist-led teaching into internal medicine clerkship. Canadian Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2026.
Lee, K.G., Sorkhou, M., Harnett, N., Vyravanathan, S., Brown, T.J., Tannenbaum, E., Khodabakhshian, N. Virtual Reality for Developing Patient-facing Communication Skills in a Medical Science Graduate Education Course: A Mixed-Methods Pre-Post Study. Medical Science Educator. 2026.
Levine, O., Myers, J., Jyothi Kumar, S., Bainbridge, D., Steinberg, L., Incardona, N., Kazemi, G., Seow, H. Testing the ABCs of Serious Illness Program for Oncology Trainees: A Feasibility Trial Comparing Different Learning Formats for a Virtual Communication Curriculum. Palliative Medicine Reports. 2025.
Mickleborough, T., Tait, G.R., Mylopoulos, M., Kulasegaram, K. Many Minds, One Model: Exploring Decision Making of an Undergraduate Medicine Competency Committee Using the Construct of a Shared Mental Model. Perspectives on Medical Education. 2025.
Levine, O., Myers, J., Jyothi Kumar, S., Bainbridge, D., Steinberg, L., Incardona, N., Kazemi, G., Seow, H. Testing the ABCs of Serious Illness Program for Oncology Trainees: A Feasibility Trial Comparing Different Learning Formats for a Virtual Communication Curriculum. Palliative Medicine Reports. 2025.
Ross, D.C., Waliji, L.A., Sayrafizadeh, N., Farhat, K., Truuvert, A.K., Musheer, M., Chu, C., Wang, E., Vigod, S.N., Soklaridis, S., Rojas, D., Mccallum, N. The CARE implementation study: scaling group-based psychoeducational trauma therapy across healthcare organizations in Canada. European Journal of Psychotraumatology. 2026.
Ross, D.C., McCallum, N., Butt, A., Truuvert, A.K., Rojas, D., Soklaridis, S., Vigod, S. Qualitative focus group study of interprofessional healthcare providers to inform the development of a virtual psychoeducational training program for the treatment of childhood interpersonal trauma. Journal of Interprofessional Care. 2025.
Sadek, J., Bazaid, K., Harrington, M., Choy, A., Hamer, D., Fung, K., Jayas, R., Varapravan, S., Mak, M.S.B., Raedler, T.J., Bohler, H., Kuzenko, N., Hickey, C. | Karlinsky, H., Côté-Olijnyk, M., Bodani, R., Waidyaratne-Wijeratne, N ., Garcia, C. Psychiatric Training During Clerkship, Part 2: Specific Recommendations for Reform—Assessment and Evaluation. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 2026.
Sadek, J., Garcia, C., Waidyaratne-Wijeratne, N., Bazaid, K., Choy, A., Fung, K.C., Jayas, R., Varapravan, S., Mak, M.S.B., Raedler, T., Bohler, H., Kuzenko, N., Hickey, C., Karlinsky, H., Côté-Olijnyk, M., Harrington, M., Hamer, D. Psychiatric Training During Clerkship: Specific Recommendations for Reform—Part 1, Teaching and Learning. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 2026.
Sedrak, P., Ly, K., Saini, G., Hwang, M., Welton, C., Ginzburg, A., Fan, L., Sharfuddin, N. Use of health equity tools in patient safety incident analyses: A scoping review. BMJ Open. 2025.
Seow, H, Arora, A.K., Bainbridge, D, Jia, Z., Steinberg, L., Incardona, N., Levine, O., Sanders, J.J., Simon, J., des Ordons, A.R., Zhang, K., Myers, J. All providers Better Communication Skills (ABCs) program: protocol for a randomized controlled trial assessing communication training effectiveness with interprofessional clinicians. BMC Palliative Care. 2026.
Smith-Uffen, M., Jyothi Kumar, S., Levine, O., Bainbridge, D., Myers, J., Steinberg, L. | Incardona, N., Civak, M., Seow, H. A mixed methods pilot study of a serious illness communication training curriculum among medical residents. Palliative Care and Social Practice. 2025.
Steenhof, N., Abela, H., Ye, S., Vuong, A., Perry, L., Kellar, J., Lake, J., Ho, C., Crown, N. Before the first class: Engaging students early in curriculum design to support program reform. Medical Teacher. 2025.
Swift, B.E., Axelrod, C., Benseler, A., Kobylianskii, A., Vicus, D., Laframboise, S., Walker, M., Sobel, M., Tannenbaum, E.. A Multicenter, Randomized Controlled Trial to Assess Video-Based Surgical Coaching in Gynecology. Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology. 2025.
Tackett, S., Rashid, M.A., Whitehead, C., Rojas, D., Gandomkar, R. Accreditation science—the need for evidence to guide the global expansion of medical education accreditation. Medical Teacher. 2026.
Tackett, S., Abdalla, M.E., Arja, S.B., Dubé, T., Eaglen, R.H., Gandomkar, R., Rojas, D., Prihatiningsih, T.S., You, Y. Redefining social accountability for medical schools–beyond codes and contracts to measuring contributions. Medical Teacher. 2026.
Tsai, Z., Charlesworth, L., Cummings, B.-A.M., Yeung Laiwah, J., Bell, A., Devine, L., Daniels, V.J., Wood, T.J., Humphrey-Murto, S. Are they sleeping? A Canadian cross-sectional study exploring sleep quality among medical students: a study protocol. BMJ Open. 2025.
Turcotte, S., Feldman, P., Rice, K., Leung, F.-H., Forte, M., Rodriguez, C. Experiences of remediation in family medicine postgraduate education: An interpretative phenomenological analysis. Medical Teacher. 2026.
Xue, Y. , Sarmah, A. Anesthesiologists in the pre-clerkship curriculum—a golden opportunity. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia. 2026.
Letters
Diep, J., Zhang, M., Ho, C., Tan, A., Chaukos, D. To the Editor: Innovation in Program Evaluation: The Development of a Logic Model for a Psychiatry Residency Training Program in Canada. Journal of Graduate Medical Education. 2025.