Guests enrich the life of the Institute by presenting their work and bringing new ideas for discussion, provide new and fresh perspectives, and collaborate on diverse research projects and studies. These exchanges help to broaden the reach of the Institute’s scope and influence and they also contribute to the visibility of McGill University on the international stage. For a complete list of our past guests please click here.
Upcoming 2023-2024 IHSE Guests
Martin V Pusic, MD, PhD
June 7, 2024
Professor, Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine
Harvard University
Dr. Pusic is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine in the Harvard Medical School and Scholar in Residence at the Brigham Education Institute. He is also Director of the Research Education Foundation at the American Board of Medical Specialties as well as a practicing Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician at the Boston Children’s Hospital.
His research has bridged multiple medical specialties, with a focus on the intersection between the data you can collect in a digital environment and how that data can be analyzed to nurture and certify expertise development.
He obtained his medical degree from the University of British Columbia, a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at McGill, and his Masters (Informatics) and PhD (Human Cognition) from Columbia University.
He is currently Past President of the Society of Directors of Research in Medical Education, Co-Chair of the American Heart Association’s Education Science & Programs Subcommittee and has been Co-Chair of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Medical Education Research Grant Committee.
Dr. Pusic will conduct a session session on June 7 from 12:00 to 1:30 at the Institute of Health Sciences Education entitled:
"The Master Adaptive Learner Framework for Health Professions Education"
The American Medical Association supported work on new conceptualizations of life-long learning as it applies to all levels of practitioners. What emerged is the Master Adaptive Learner framework – a metacognitive framework that seeks to create a shared language to promote evidence-based learning by and between clinicians. In this workshop, we will look at the MAL model from varying perspectives in order to make it applicable to your education practice.
Previous Guests
Lorelei Lingard, PhD
January 25, 2024
Professor, Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University
Professor, Faculty of Education, Western University
Senior Scientist, Centre for Education Research & Innovation, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University
Lorelei Lingard is an internationally recognized researcher in the study of communication and collaboration on healthcare teams. She is Professor in the Department of Medicine, and senior scientist in the Centre for Education Research & Innovation, both at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University.
With a PhD in Rhetoric, Lorelei brings a unique approach to the field of health professions education research. For more than 20 years, she has studied the communication practices of clinical teams, in order to support evidence-based educational initiatives to improve teamwork. She has secured more than 6 million dollars in grant funding over the course of her career, and published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers. In 2014, Dr. Lingard was awarded the prestigious appointment of Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, in recognition of the impact of her work on Canadian healthcare. In 2018, she was awarded the highest international honor in her field, the Karolinska Prize for Research in Medical Education.
Michelle Chiu, MD, FRCPC
January 8, 2024
Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and
Department of Innovation in Medical Education
The Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa
Dr. Michelle Chiu obtained her medical degree at McMaster University and completed her Anesthesiology training at the University of Ottawa. She obtained Fellowship training in Regional Anesthesiology at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) where she also completed a Fellowship in Simulation & Medical Education. Her academic interests are focused on medical education, simulation, assessment of competence, and faculty development.
Dr. Chiu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (DAPM) at the University of Ottawa. She is cross appointed to the Department of Innovation in Medical Education, within which she established the Foundational Elements of Applied Simulation Theory (FEAST) curriculum for simulation educators, which has trained over 65 Canadian and international fellows to date.
Her past leadership roles include being the Interim Head & Chair of DAPM, the Vice-Chair of Education, overseeing all departmental educational activities, and Simulation Director, where she was responsible for developing, coordinating, and implementing simulation-based education for students, residents, faculty, and allied health. She led the creation and implementation of a simulation curriculum for the first competency-based Anesthesiology residency-training program in Canada.
Dr. Chiu is the past-Chair of the Canadian National Anesthesiology Simulation Curriculum (CanNASC) Committee; this work resulted in the development and implementation of a national simulation-based strategy for competency assessment of postgraduate trainees that is required for their Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) certification. She was the Director of Exam Material Development for the Royal College Anesthesiology Examination Board for 8 years, where she spearheaded the introduction of high-stakes assessment of Intrinsic CanMEDS competencies at the certification examinations. She is one of two RCPSC Simulation Educators in Canada, working to expand the role, use, and integration of simulation in postgraduate education, continuing professional development, and health care systems.
Frederic W. Hafferty, PhD
October 20, 2023
Associate Director of the Program for Professionalism & Values
Associate Dean for Professionalism
College of Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Frederic W. Hafferty is Professor of Medical Education, Associate Director of the Program for Professionalism & Values, and Associate Dean for Professionalism, College of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic. He received his undergraduate degree in Social Relations from Harvard in 1969 and his Ph.D. in Medical Sociology from Yale in 1976. He is the author of "Into the Valley: Death and the Socialization of Medical Students" (Yale University Press); "The Changing Medical Profession: An International Perspective" (Oxford University Press), with John McKinlay; “Sociology and Complexity Science: A New Field of Inquiry” (Springer) with Brian Castellani, “The Hidden Curriculum in Health Professions Education" (Dartmouth College Press) with Joseph O'Donnell, "Understanding Professionalism" (Lange) with Wendy Levinson, Katherine Lucy, and Shiphra Ginsburg and “Place and Health as Complex Systems: A Case study and Empirical Test “ (Springer) with Brian Castellani, Rajeev Rajaram, J. Galen Buckwalter and Michael Ball.
He is past chair of the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. He currently sits on both the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) standing committee on Ethics and Professionalism, ABMS Professionalism Task Force, and the ABMS Stakeholder Council, and on the editorial board of Academic Medicine. Research focuses on the evolution of medicine’s’ professionalism movement, mapping social networks within medical education, the application of complexity theory to medical training, issues of medical socialization, and disability studies.
