Shiphra Ginsburg
Shiphra Ginsburg, MD, MEd, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Medicine and a Scientist at the Wilson Centre for Research in Education at the University of Toronto. She completed medical school at McGill, followed by postgraduate training in Internal Medicine (at U of T), Respirology and Critical Care (at McMaster) and a Master of Education at OISE. In 2016 she completed a PhD in Health Professions Education at Maastricht University. Her program of research involves two inter-related areas. The first explores how clinical supervisors conceptualize, assess and communicate about the performance and competence of their learners, with a focus on the language used in workplace-based assessment. The second area explores the construct of professionalism in medical education, from the perspective of learners, faculty and practicing physicians. Dr. Ginsburg’s research involves the use of qualitative and mixed methods. She also collaborates widely with colleagues from U of T and nationally/internationally on projects related to feedback, implicit gender bias in assessment, the effect of the environment on performance assessments, how successful people handle failure, and issues central to the field of medical education research and scholarship in general, including academic publishing and dissemination.
Dr. Ginsburg serves as Deputy Editor at the journal Medical Education and is on the Editorial Board of Academic Medicine. Dr. Ginsburg is the Director of Education Research and Scholarship in the Department of Medicine and the Academic Director of Education Research and Scholarship in the office of Continuing Professional Development, Faculty of Medicine.
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