Heather Buckley, MD, CCFP, FCFP, MHPE

heather.buckley@ubc.ca
Publication List

Dr. Heather Buckley is the Associate Dean, Faculty Development in the Faculty of Medicine. She graduated with her medical degree from the University of British Columbia (UBC) and completed her residency in Family Medicine at the University of Western Ontario. In 2019, Dr. Buckley completed the Clinical Educator Fellowship Program at the UBC Center for Health Education Scholarship; during that time she also completed a Masters of Health Professions Education from Maastricht University. Her research interests continue to expand; she has a special interest in the area of social networks and faculty development.

Dr. Buckley is also the Portfolio Pillar Lead, Student Assessment Unit, UGME (Undergraduate Medical Education) at UBC, and she has worked in the undergraduate medical program for many years. She has been acknowledged for her contributions, most recently with the inaugural Dr. Richard Wadge Teaching Award in 2019 and the AFMC Award for Outstanding Contribution to Faculty Development in Canada in 2020. She truly enjoys her work and attributes much of that to her network of supportive, intelligent, kind, and inspiring colleagues.

Research Interests

• Faculty development
• Social networks
• Undergraduate medical education
• Humanity in medicine

Awards

• University of British Columbia – Dr. Richard Wadge Teaching Award (2019)
• Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada – Award for Outstanding Contribution to Faculty Development in Canada (2020)

Grants

• Distributed Medical Education Grant, Center For Health Education Scholarship (2016). $10,000
• Strategic Investment Fund, UBC Faculty of Medicine (2019). $55,000
• Strategic Investment Fund, UBC Faculty of Medicine (2019). $35,700
• Royal College/Associated Medical Services CanMEDS Research Grant, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (2019). $15,000
• Strategic Investment Fund, UBC Faculty of Medicine (2020). $61,040
• Strategic Investment Fund, UBC Faculty of Medicine (2021). $56,567.80

Publication Highlights

• van Enk, A., Nimmon, L., Buckley, H., Cuncic, C., Canfield, C., Veerapen, K., & Holmes, C. (2022). Presenting cases in front of patients: implications for a key medical education genre. Advances in Health Sciences Education, 1-23.
• Liu, J., Buckley, H., Ho, K., Hubinette, M., Abdalkhani, A., Holmes, C., & Nathoo, N. (2021). A proposed learning environment framework for virtual care. Canadian Medical Education Journal, 12(6), 28.
• Price I, Hubinette, M, Armstrong L and Buckley, H. (2021). Coaching the coaches: Employing role modelling and coaching as a faculty development strategy. Medical Teacher, 1-2.
• Cheema B, Li M, Ho D, Amari E, Buckley H, Canfield C, Nimmon L, Van Enk A, Veerapen K, Wisener K, Holmes C. (2021). Patient‐present teaching in the clinic: Effect on agency and professional behaviour. Medical Education
• Buckley, H, Nimmon, L. (2020). Social connectedness in virtual learning contexts. The Clinical Teacher.
• Buckley, H. (2020). Faculty development in a pandemic: So close‐yet so far. Medical Education.
• Buckley, H, Nimmon, L. (2020). Learning in faculty development: The role of social networks. Academic Medicine. 95(11S), S20-S27.
• Buckley, H., Steinert, Y., Regehr, G. and Nimmon, L. (2019), When I say … community of practice. Medical Education, 53: 763-765. doi:1111/medu.13823
• Buckley H, Nathoo N. (2017). Why does my student seem disengaged? A perspective on learner engagement in new This Changed My Teaching. Retrieved from: http://thischangedmypractice.com/why-does-my-student-seem-disengaged-a-perspective-on-learner-engagement-in-new-environments/

Recent Presentations

• Buckley H, Atherley A, Stasiuk S, Nimmon L. (2022). Qualitative Ego Networks in Health Professions Education: Capturing the Self in Relation to Others. Canadian Conference on Medical Education, Calgary, Alberta. April 26, 2022.
• Cheema B, Ho D, Holmes C, Cuncic C, Canfield C, Buckley H, Veerapen K, Amari E, Nimmon L, van Enk A, Wisener K, Li M. (2021). Placing the Patient at the Centre of the Learning Environment: Effect on agency for the learner, the attending physician and the patient [Oral presentation]. Canadian Conference on Medical Education, Labrador, Newfoundland.
• Stasiuk S, Shahram S, Hubinette M, Buckley H. (2021). Communication skills: Going beyond eye contact [Oral presentation]. Canadian Conference on Medical Education, Labrador, Newfoundland.
• Price I, Armstrong L, Hubinette M, Buckley, H. (2021). Employing a coach-approach in faculty development through in-person and virtual group coaching [Oral presentation].  Canadian Conference of Medical Education, Labrador, Newfoundland.
• Buckley H, Nimmon L. (2021). Exploring the role of social networks in supporting faculty development [Oral presentation]. Canadian Conference of Medical Education, Labrador, Newfoundland.
• Van Enk A, Buckley H, Canfield C, Cuncic C, Nimmon L, Holmes C. (2020). The influence of patients on the learning environment: metageneric comments on presenting cases in front of patients [Oral presentation]. Center for Health Education Scholarship Celebration of Scholarship, Vancouver, BC.
• Cheema B, Ho D, Amari E, Buckley H, Canfield C, Cuncic C, Holmes, C, Nimmon, L, Veerapen, K. (2019).How does patient inclusion in medical learning environments shift the patient, learner and attending experience? [Oral presentation]. Center for Health Education Scholarship Celebration of Scholarship, Vancouver, BC.
• Buckley, H. Nimmon, L. (2019). Exploring the role of social networks in supporting faculty development [Oral presentation].Center for Health Education Scholarship Celebration of Scholarship, Vancouver, BC.
• Heather Buckley, Nawaaz Nathoo, Surabhi Rawal. (2018). Peer coaching for teaching [Workshop]. Canadian Conference on Medical Education, Halifax, N.S.
• Buckley, H. (2017). Sustaining factors for peer group learning in faculty development [Oral presentation]. Rogano Conference, Helsinki, Finland.
• Wisener K, Olson R, Purdon M, Armstrong L, Buckley H, Buydens S, Amari E, Mason B, Veerapen K. (2017). A balance between consistency and flexibility in faculty development in a distributed program: looking for the sweet spot [Oral presentation]. AMEE, Helsinki, Finland.