Dr. Shiphra Ginsburg recipient of prestigious Medical Council of Canada award
This prestigious distinction recognizes an individual or group who demonstrate sustained excellence in Canadian health care and/or health-care research. Its recipients are the people who ensure our health-care professionals meet the high standards that Canadians enjoy and expect.
Dr. Ginsburg’s 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 the University of Toronto and on national/international 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, at the University of Toronto.
