Tim Dubé, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Family and Emergency Medicine
Université de Sherbrooke
Dates of Visit: October 15 – November 12, 2025
Biography
Tim Dubé, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Emergency Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the Université de Sherbrooke. His research focuses on educational transformations, integrating social accountability into health professions education curricula, and advancing the social accountability of faculties and training programs. He is interested in the application of qualitative methodologies and methods that place participants, contexts and researchers at the heart of the research process to facilitate meaningful representations of participants’ experiences. Tim has previously served as an Assistant Professor at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine and McGill University. He brings extensive experience in distributed, community-engaged learning and competency-based medical education.
Purpose of Visit
To enrich my research in health professions education (HPE), my goal is to deepen my expertise in advanced qualitative methodologies, with a particular focus on critical and interpretive approaches. I aim to reimagine the concept of social accountability in HPE, exploring how academic institutions and training programs operationalize and actualize their social missions. Additionally, this sabbatical visit will provide an opportunity to explore and refine ideas for a doctoral course proposal on philosophies of science in health research for the PhD program at Université de Sherbrooke, with the potential for further development beyond the visit.