Anna Cianciolo, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medical Education
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Dates of Visit: March 16 – 18, 2015
Purpose of Visit
Presenter at CHES Research Rounds
March 18, 2015
What to teach health professionals? A human-centered systems engineering perspective
While visiting CHES, Dr. Cianciolo will also be meeting with individual members of the CHES community to discuss their research ideas, offer advice, and explore areas of joint interest.
Biography
Dr. Anna T. Cianciolo, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Education at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. She earned her PhD in Engineering Psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2001 and has devoted her career to investigating the nature of professional expertise and its development.
Her current research focuses on examining faculty and student practices in problem-based learning tutorial discussions, designing observational assessments of entrustment, and enhancing conceptual understanding of diagnostic expertise.
In 2014, she was selected to receive the Association for Medical Education in Europe’s Miriam Friedman
Ben-David New Educator Award. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Teaching & Learning in Medicine and Chair Elect of the AAMC Central Group on Educational Affairs Section on Medical Education Scholarship Research and Evaluation.