Dr. Stephane Voyer
Topic: Beyond the “sandwich”: Reconceptualizing feedback in clinical education
Date: January 18, 2012
Time: 12:00pm to 1:30pm (Lunch will be served at DHCC)
Locations:
- Diamond Health Care Centre 2267
- IRC 305
- CWH 2D22
- MSB 210
- RJH 125
- NHSC 9-374
- UHNBC 5009 (Port #1)
Abstract
In the context of clinical training in medicine, feedback is one of the primary means through which teaching faculty provide trainees with guidance on how to improve performance. Puzzlingly, feedback often fails to achieve its full educative potential and in fact tends to be a source of much discomfort and dissatisfaction. This talk will include a focused review of the feedback literature, in which the audience’s attention will be drawn to a set of contradictions that recur repeatedly, and which appear to hinge on a number of fundamental assumptions. Taking a sociocultural view of learning, I plan to excavate these assumptions in an effort to re-orient the collective conversation around feedback: we’ll discuss the related and complementary constructs of feedback and assessment, the importance of identity and relationships, and the inextricability of identity and performance.
Biography
Stephane Voyer is a recent graduate of the Clinical Educator Fellowship (CEF) Program at the Centre for Health Education Scholarship (CHES) at the University of British Columbia. He pursued undergraduate medical training as well as postgraduate training in Internal Medicine at McGill University, followed by a fellowship in General Internal Medicine at UBC. While at CHES, Stephane completed a Masters of Education in the Department of Education Studies under the supervision of Dr. Dan Pratt. Clinically, he divides his time between UBC’s teaching hospitals and a number of community hospitals across the province, and is involved in international health work. He has recently been appointed as Associate Program Director for the General Internal Medicine fellowship program at UBC, and continues to collaborate with a number of CHES members.
Accreditation:
As an organization accredited to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians by the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS), the UBC Division of Continuing Professional Development designates this educational program as meeting the accreditation criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 1.5 Mainpro-M1 credits (per session). This program has been reviewed and approved by UBC Division of Continuing Professional Development. Each physician should claim only those credits he/she actually spent in the activity.
Accreditation Statement:
The CHES Research Rounds is 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 Canada.
