The Centre for Medical Education & The Faculty Development Office

The Faculty of Medicine has created an interprofessional Assessment and Evaluation Unit to focus on the assessment of learners and faculty members as well as program evaluation. Members of the Unit will provide dedicated expertise in assessment and evaluation to all programs to help ensure excellence in health professions education.

Please celebrate the inauguration of the Assessment and Evaluation Unit by joining us for:

MEDICAL EDUCATION ROUNDS

Work-Based Assessment: Is Competence in the Eye of the Beholder?

Valérie Dory, MD, PhD, MMedEd Carlos Gomez-Garibello, PhD Member, Assessment & Evaluation Unit Member, Assessment & Evaluation Unit Core Faculty, Centre for Medical Education Core Faculty, Centre for Medical Education Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

March 17th, 2016 16h00 to 17h30

in the Meakins Amphitheatre, 5th Floor McIntyre Medical Sciences Building

Reception to follow

Please R.S.V.P. to: Ms. Sonia Bichler-Branchaud Tel: 398-2698 / Fax: 398-6649 E-mail: [email protected]

McGill University Session Goals:

 Discuss challenges in designing assessment for competency-based education in the health professions.  Examine some of the most salient evidence in how raters assess learners’ performance.  Explore future directions for research related to the impact of cognitive and emotional factors on rater judgments.

VALÉRIE DORY, MD, PhD, MMedEd, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Centre for Medical Education. She trained as a family physician in Belgium and became interested in medical education after her residency. She conducted her PhD on the topic of resident self-assessment at her alma mater, Université catholique de Louvain. She then obtained a Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique-FNRS postdoctoral grant to pursue her research on the assessment of clinical reasoning full-time. She is now the lead for assessment and evaluation in Undergraduate Medical Education at McGill University.

Her current research interests include: assessment, particularly of clinical reasoning; epistemological beliefs (beliefs about what knowledge is and what it means to know) and their development in medical school

CARLOS GOMEZ-GARIBELLO, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine and the Centre of Medical Education. He earned his doctoral degree in Educational Psychology at McGill University. His areas of interest include assessment and evaluation methods at the postgraduate level. Specifically, Carlos is interested in the development and implementation of work–based assessment initiatives and the measurement and evaluation of intrinsic roles. He has experience in the design of quantitative educational research and in the analysis and interpretation of statistical and psychometric techniques. He is currently the lead for assessment and evaluation in Postgraduate Medical Education at McGill University.

For further information on Faculty Development events, please contact:

Faculty Development Office Faculty of Medicine, McGill University Lady Meredith House, 1110 West, Suite 103, , QC H3A 1A3 Tel: (514) 398-2698 Fax: (514) 398-6649 E-Mail: [email protected] Web: www.mcgill.ca/medicinefacdev

Medical Education Rounds are a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of