About the Event: Norman Education Research Day will be an in-person event taking place on June 5, 2024, at David Braley Health Sciences Centre, McMaster Downtown Campus (100 Main Street West). Dr Stefanie Sebok-Syer will be our guest speaker for NERD 2024!
SCHEDULE
9:00-9:15am – Welcome Remarks
9:15-10:15 – Keynote + Q&A
10:30-11:45am – AM Presentations
11:45am-1:00pm – Lunch & Poster Session
1:00-2:15pm – PM Presentation
2:30-3:15pm – Education Scholarship Fund Presentations
3:15-3:30pm – Awards & Wrap Up
Biography: Dr. Stefanie Sebok-Syer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford School of Medicine. Prior to joining Stanford, Dr. Sebok-Syer was postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Education, Research and Innovation at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University. She received her PhD in Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Her research interests broadly include examining psychometrics aspects of performance-based assessments, capturing the interdependence that exists within teams, and developing innovative approaches such as using electronic health record data to support the shift to competency-based medical education.
Keynote Presentation: Contemporary Assessment Challenges: Measuring Interdependence in Healthcare Systems and Teams
Keynote Details: Individual and collective competence are required to provide effective patient care in our healthcare systems. But, assessing both types of competence remains problematic because individual assessment disregards the team and team assessment disregards the individual. In order to meaningfully connect medical education and team-based performance with patient outcomes, we need approaches to assess interdependence. Interdependence, as it relates to teamwork, is focused on complex interactions among human and material agents that exist within teams.
In this talk, Dr. Sebok-Syer will present the current conceptualization of interdependence, which has expanded to distinguish between supportive and collaborative interdependence. She will also engage the audience in thinking about opportunities for assessing interdependence within healthcare teams. Finally, she will present data on how faculty currently view interdependence and understand its relationship to other assessments such as entrustable professional activities and milestones.