Dr. Anna Ryan
Senior Lecturer, Department of Medical Education,
University of Melbourne
Dates: May 19 – 22, 2015
Purpose of Visit
While visiting CHES, Dr. Ryan will be meeting with individual members of the CHES community working in the broad areas of assessment and feedback.
Given the recent restructure from a Medical Education Unit to Department of Medical Education, Dr. Ryan is also very interested to meet up with medical education researchers to get ideas about how to facilitate this change and build research capacity.
Biography
Dr. Anna Ryan is a medical doctor and PhD candidate in assessment and feedback. She is currently working at the Austin Hospital Clinical School and in the Department of Medical Education at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests include: assessment and feedback, the long case, and the transition to clinical practice.
Dr. Ryan’s PhD explores different kinds of written feedback following modified progress tests and the impact on student learning behaviours and knowledge acquisition as measured by test results, study diaries, interview and questionnaires. Feedback types used in the experiment included normative information, curriculum references and certainty data.
Most recently these feedback reports have been adapted to provide more detailed item level data which does not require release of test questions and answers.
Applications used to provide MCQ test feedback have recently been modified to provide more generic feedback reports following other summative assessments in professionalism. Current work is being undertaken to further adapt these report systems for Long Case and OSCE assessments.