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Recent Works
Personal career decisions during medical training are not complicated, they are complex
Lea Harper, Janeve Desy, Melinda Davis, Sarah Weeks, Kevin McLaughlin
For medical training to be deemed successful, in addition to gaining the skills required to make appropriate clinical decisions, trainees must learn how to make good personal decisions. These decisions may affect satisfaction with career choice, work–life balance, and their ability to maintain/improve clinical performance over time—outcomes that can impact future wellness. Here, the authors introduce a decision-making framework with the goal of improving our understanding of personal decisions.
Mentorship in Medicine in a Complex opportunity
Lea Harper, Christopher A. Hergott, Sylvain Coderre, Kenna Kelly-Turner, Melinda Davis, Kevin McLaughlin
Mentorship in medicine is a Complex opportunity - PubMed (nih.gov)
Mentorship is now recognized as essential to the personal and professional development of physicians. Over the past decade, it has become a common theme in medical education literature, and through this our understanding of mentorship has evolved. Despite this progress, we believe that the prevailing reductionist view of mentorship is oversimplified and may hinder further advances in this space. Instead, we propose that mentorship be viewed through the lens of complexity theory, positioning it as a prototypical complex adaptive system. This shift in perspective will inform our mentorship interventions and evaluations, and can avoid the disappointment that invariably follows when we apply a simple approach to a complex situation.
Competence Committees decision making; an interplay of data, group orientation, and intangible impressions
Colleen Curtis, Aliya Kassam, Jason Lord & Lara J.Cooke
The implementation of competency-based medical education and utilization of competence committees (CC) represents a paradigm shift in residency education. This qualitative study aimed to explore the methods used by two operational CC and their members to make decisions about progression and competence of their residents.
- Morrison, L. J., Joffe, M. H., Kassam, A., Temple-Oberle, C., Paolucci, E. O., & Schneider, P. (2024). A mixed methods analysis of barriers to and facilitators of scholarly education in orthopaedic surgery residency. Global Surgical Education-Journal of the Association for Surgical Education, 3(1), 75. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44186-024-00274-1
- Kassam A, Page S, Lauzon J, Hay R, Coret M & Mitchell I (2024). Ethical issues in residency education related to the covid-19 pandemic: a narrative inquiry study. Journal of Medical Ethics, https://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jme-2023-108917
- Kassam A & Martimianakis MA (2024). When I say ... wellness.. Medical Education, 58(4), 380-381. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/medu.15297
- Kassam A, Antepim B & Sukhera J (2024). A mixed methods study of perceptions of mental illness and self-disclosure of mental illness among medical learners. Perspectives on Medical Education, 13(1), 336-348. https://dx.doi.org/10.5334/pme.1152
- Constantinescu C, Conly J, Vayalumkal J, Gilfoyle E, Oguaju C & Kassam A (2024). A mixed-methods needs assessment for an antimicrobial stewardship curriculum in pediatrics. Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology: ASHE., 4(1), e28. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ash.2024.8
- Curtis C, Kassam A, Lord J & Cooke LJ (2023). Competence committees decision-making; an interplay of data, group orientation, and intangible impressions. BMC Medical Education, 23(1), 748. https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04693-4
- Davis M, Desy J, Kassam A & McLaughlin K (2023). The choice! the challenges of trying to improve medical students' satisfaction with their specialty choices.. Canadian Medical Education Journal (5), 49-55. https://dx.doi.org/10.36834/cmej.73643
- Jawad S, Thomas M, Hecker K & Kassam A (2023). Exploring the construct of anticipatory stress in finding a job after residency training through cognitive interviewing: implications for learner well-being and health workforce planning.. MedEdPublish (2016), 13, 25. https://dx.doi.org/10.12688/mep.19559.1
- Kassam A, Lord J & Ellaway RH (2023). Response to: 'making sense of competency-based medical education'. Medical Teacher, 45(7), 793. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2023.2189536