Health Professions Education Assessment Showcase

We invited health profession educators to share innovative and creative assessment strategies at the Health Professions Education Assessment Showcase co-hosted by the Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary in Qatar and the College of Pharmacy, QU Health, Qatar University.

The showcase was designed as an opportunity for health professions educators to come together and co-create knowledge on the use of authentic and innovative assessment strategies in theory, lab, and clinical settings, reflect on how to integrate new strategies into their various teaching contexts and disciplines, and network.

Guiding Principles

• To increase the awareness of authentic and innovative assessment practices in health profession education amongst HPE Educators in Qatar and beyond.
• To provide networking opportunities and increase collaboration amongst HPE educators.
• To encourage the understanding of the importance of alignment between outcomes/objectives and the assessment strategy used to assess learners.

Guest Speaker:

Kent Hecker, BSc, MSc, PhD 

University of Calgary, Canada

How do you judge and assess competence? Competence and competency development are complex constructs that we as healthcare educators are asked to deconstruct, teach, assess, and provide feedback to our learners and key stakeholders in our health education community.

In this session, we will explore how best to align assessment methods to competency development in health education. We will take an evidence-based approach to think meaningfully and pragmatically about what assessment method or methods could be used at what time and for what purpose.  Discussions will revolve around providing valid evidence to support the use of methods chosen and the interpretations of the data generated in order to support learning and making decisions about student competency progression.    

Biography of the speaker:

Dr. Hecker is a Professor of Health Professions Education in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine with a joint appointment in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary, Canada. He is the inaugural Chief Assessment Officer for the International Council for Veterinary Assessment. Dr Hecker studies performance in health professions education focusing in three areas: 1) Selection of applicants; 2) Assessment of student/trainee competency development across the health care continuum; and 3) The application of neuroimaging methods (functional magnetic resonance imaging [fMRI] and electroencephalography [EEG]) to assess learning, reasoning and decision making.

Dr. Hecker works at the intersection of measurement, learning, education, neuroimaging, and psychology. His collaborations with neuroscientists, psychologists, clinicians, and educators have led to some of the first novice expert studies assessing the neural correlates of learning, reasoning, and clinical decision-making.  He is the Principal Investigator of The Health Education Neuroassesment Laboratory (THENaL), a Canada Foundation for Innovation funded lab, where a multidisciplinary team combine brain imaging techniques (i.e., EEG and fMRI) with educational and assessment methods to explore how neuroeducation studies could inform learning, decision making, teaching and assessment practices in health professions education.

• One guest speaker
• Three sessions of 30 minutes
• 10 minutes between sessions for participants to reflect on learning and regroup
• Event program will be available soon

DATE: Monday, 17th October 2022

TIME: 3 – 5:30pm (12 – 2:30pm GMT)

Registration is closed.

The webinar will be conducted on Zoom and details will be shared with all registrants closer to the event.