Dr. Georges Bordage
Professor
Department of Medical Education
University of Illinois at Chicago
Dates: September 2 – 30, 2014
Purpose of Visit
During his month-long visit to CHES, Dr. Bordage will lead a 4-week series of journal club sessions, titled
In addition to meeting with colleagues locally and at distributed medical sites, Dr. Bordage will lead a review of the Clinical Educator Fellowship Program in partnership with two UBC colleagues.
Biography
Dr. Georges Bordage is a Professor in the Department of Medical Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago. From 1978 to 1992, Dr. Bordage was a professor in the Office of Health Sciences Education in the Faculty of Medicine at the Université Laval (Québec City) and since 1992, a professor in the Department of Medical Education at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He is also a visiting professor at the University of Bern in Switzerland (2000-) and the University of Tokyo (Japan, 2004-). He was the founding director of a Master’s degree program in Health Sciences Education at Laval and was the director of the Master’s degree program in Health Professions Education at UIC from 1992 to 2003.
In addition to four honorary doctoral degrees, Dr. Bordage is the recipient of the 2005 Abraham Flexner Award of the American Association of Medical Colleges, the 1994 John P. Hubbard Award from the NBME, the 1999 Merrel Flair Award of the AAMC Group on Educational Affairs, the 2002 Division I American Education Research Association Distinguished Career Award. He is also a Fellow of the American Education Research Association (2009).