Dr. Kevin Eva
Title – What learning to diagnose pneumonia can teach us about judging competence in the health professions
Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2015*
*Take note this session is one week later than the usual timing for CHES Research Rounds
Time: 12:00pm to 1:30pm (Lunch will be served at DHCC)
Locations:
- Diamond Health Care Centre 2267
- IRC 305
- MSB 107
- RJH CA 120
- KGH CAC 237
- NHSC 9-374
- Surrey Central City (Manning Room 4109)
- CSB V2-222
Abstract
Cognitive psychology has had a long, illustrious (and admittedly constrained), influence in the field of health professional education. For better and worse, since the mid-1970s it has been the dominant paradigm through which researchers have come to understand the thought processes involved in diagnostic reasoning, yielding considerable insight and substantial debate. During the last half decade, parallels have come to be recognized between how physicians perform tasks like diagnosing pneumonia and how educators perform tasks like assessing student performance. In this talk we will explore these parallels, discuss the burgeoning area of rater cognition, and examine ways in which knowledge of clinical reasoning might help us begin to address some of the problems facing health professional assessment practices.
Biography
Dr. Kevin Eva is Associate Director and Senior Scientist in the Centre for Health Education Scholarship, and Professor and Director of Educational Research and Scholarship in the Department of Medicine, at the University of British Columbia. He completed his PhD in Cognitive Psychology (McMaster University) in 2001 and became Editor-in-Chief for the journal Medical Education in 2008. He maintains a number of international appointments including visiting professor at the University of Bern (Switzerland) and has consulted broadly around the globe including advisory roles for the American Board of Internal Medicine (US) and National Health Services Education (Scotland). He co-founded the Maastricht-Canada Masters of Health Professional Education program.
Accreditation:
As an organization accredited to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians by the Committee on Accreditation of Continuing Medical Education (CACME), 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. This program is an Accredited Group Learning Activity eligible for up to 1.5 Section 1 credits as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. 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.
