Olusegun (Segun) Oyedele,
MB.ChB (MD), PhD, Cert. SoEL (Scholarship of Educational Leadership)
Scholar & SMP Liaison
Dr. Olusegun (Segun) Oyedele is a Professor of Teaching in the Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, and Assistant Dean, Southern Medical Program (SMP), UBC. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry, a Master’s in Anatomy, both from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and an MD from Ogun State University, Nigeria. Furthermore, Dr. Oyedele earned a PhD in Developmental Biology (Anatomy) from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, South Africa. Following a short stint in General Medical Practice, Dr. Oyedele moved into academia, where he has taught students of Medicine and the allied Medical Sciences in the disciplines of Anatomy, Embryology, Histology, other basic medical sciences as well as clinical skills in Nigeria, South Africa and now in Canada, for about three decades cumulatively. His research and scholarly work broadly focus on anatomy, medical education, technology-assisted learning, as well as on the integration of the basic sciences into clinical decision making. Dr. Oyedele’ s work has received recognition at local, national and international levels, including the Canadian Association for Medical Education (CAME) Merit Award (2017), the Wits-Carnegie Diaspora Visiting Fellowship (2019 & 2022), and UBC’s highest teaching award, the Killam Teaching Prize (2021). Dr. Oyedele was also awarded the UBC Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Achievement Award for the Advancement of Equity, Diversity and Inclusiveness in 2023. Among his fondest awards however are several Best Teacher and Excellence awards conferred by his beloved SMP students in 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2021. Dr. Oyedele currently sits on the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists (IFAA), and on the Board of Directors of the American Association for Anatomy (AAA).
Research Interests
My research interests overlap the broad fields of Anatomical Sciences Education and Medical Education. Specifically, I am interested in the role of various modern technologies in learning. I am also interested in small group learning and how basic sciences inform clinical education and clinical decision making during clinical training and later medical practice.
Awards
- UBC Faculty of Medicine: Distinguished Achievement Award for the Advancement of Equity, Diversity and Inclusiveness (2023)
- UBC Faculty of Medicine: Killam Teaching Prize (2021)
- Canadian Association for Medical Education: CAME Merit Award (2017)
Grants
- Canadian Association for Medical Education: Faculty Health Professions Education Grant (2021-2022)
- Carnegie Foundation & Wits University, Johannesburg: Carnegie-Wits Alumni Diaspora Grant (2019-2022)
- Centre for Health Education Scholarship: DME Research Grant (2019-2020)
Publication Highlights
Oyedele, O., Cassidy, K., Kitchin, V., & Hussein, A. (2023). Biomedical visualization in embryology education: A scoping review. In Shapiro, L. (Ed.), Graphic medicine, humanizing healthcare and novel approaches in anatomical education (pp. 109-130). Biomedical visualization (Vol. 3). Springer.
Skidmore, N., Thouli, A., & Oyedele, O. (2022). Clinical anatomy of the sternalis muscle: A case report. UBC Medical Journal, 14(1), 18-20.
Maurice, S., Mytting, K, Gentles, J. Q., Roots, R., Constantin, A. G., Kruger, S. L., Sim, S., Brock, W., Oyedele, O., Soles, J. A., & Snadden, D. (2019). The Healthcare Travelling Roadshow: A qualitative study of rural community engagement initiative in Canada. Rural and Remote Health, 19:5238.
Robertson, A. B., & Oyedele, O. (2019). The decline of embryology instruction within medical schools worldwide: Options for adapting. UBC Medical Journal, 10(2), 39-40.
Oyedele, O., & Calibaba, B. (2019). Animate! Breathing new life into an old pedagogy: Human embryology teaching re-envisioned. The FASEB Journal, 33(S1), LB119
Oyedele, O., & Kramer, B. (2013). Nuanced but significant: How ethanol perturbs avian cranial neural crest cell actin cytoskeleton, migration and proliferation. Alcohol, 47(5), 417-426.
Phukubye, P., & Oyedele, O. (2011). The incidence and structure of the fabella in a South African cadaver sample. Clinical Anatomy, 24(1), 84-90.
Presentation Highlights
Lo, B., Oyedele, O., & Krebs, C. (2023, March 25-27). “The podcast really helped bring the human-ness back”: The role of podcasts in reimagining anatomy education [Poster presentation]. Anatomy Connected 2023, Washington, D.C., USA.
Lo, B., Pennefather, P., Oyedele, O., & Krebs, C. (2022, November 23). Transforming in-person to remote activities: Setting the stage for improved virtual collaboration [Pre-conference workshop]. Open Education Berlin 2022, Berlin, Germany.
Oyedele, O., & Calibaba, B. (2019, April 6-9). Animate! Breathing new life into an old pedagogy: Human embryology teaching re-envisioned. [Poster presentation]131st Annual Meeting of the American Association for Anatomy, Experimental Biology 2019, Orlando, FL, USA.
Oyedele, O. (2017, April 22-26). Keeping traditions? Perceptions of anatomy’s relevance to clinical training and practice across successive cohorts of graduating MD students in a new medical program. [Poster presentation] 129th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Anatomy, Experimental Biology 2017, Chicago, IL, USA.
Oyedele, O. (2015, March 28-April 1). Perceived relevance of anatomy to clerkship: Opinions of an inaugural class of final year MD undergraduate students. [Poster presentation]. 127th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Anatomy, Experimental Biology 2015, Boston, MA, USA.
Oyedele, O. (2014, April 26-30). Anatomy education in a new distributed MD program: Prospects and challenges. 126th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Anatomy, Experimental Biology 2014, San Diego, CA, USA.