Dawn Cooper, MSc, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor,
Department of Medical Education Clinical Sciences
Associate Dean for Accreditation, Assessment and Evaluation
Elson S Floyd College of Medicine, Washington State University
Dates of Visit: May 15 – 19, 2023
Purpose of Visit
During this visit to CHES, Dawn will be meeting with individual members of the CHES community to discuss their research ideas, offer advice, and explore areas of joint interest.
Biography
Dawn Cooper is a PhD-trained research scientist who specialized in cell death and disease, but transitioned to medical education leadership and scholarship during her time at the University of British Columbia. She joined Washington State University to participate in the founding of the Elson S Floyd College of Medicine (ESFCOM), where she now serves as the Associate Dean for Accreditation, Assessment and Evaluation.
The ESFCOM is moving towards a time-variable model of undergraduate medical education, and to support this transition, Dr. Cooper has been exploring issues of students’ self-regulated learning and how learners use performance data (learner analytics) to inform self-assessment. The ESFCOM also uses Entrustable Professional Activities at the undergraduate level, so she is interested in variability across assessors, sources of error in clinical assessments, and what this means for clinical competence committees that use these data to make entrustment and/or competence decisions about students. She also has interests in remediation strategies for struggling learners, in particular those struggling with professionalism issues.