Kevin Eva
Kevin Eva, PhD, Hon. FAcadMEd, is Associate Director and Scientist in the Centre for Health Education Scholarship, and Professor and Director of Educational Research and Scholarship in the Department of Medicine, at the University of British Columbia.Ìý
He completed his PhD in Cognitive Psychology (McMaster University) in 2001 and became Editor-in-Chief for the journal Medical Education in 2008. Prof. Eva maintains a number of international appointments including Visiting Professor at the University of Bern (Switzerland), Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne (Australia), and Researcher at Maastricht University (the Netherlands).Ìý
He has consulted broadly around the globe including advisory roles for the National Board of Medical Examiners (US) and National Health Services Education (Scotland). He co-founded the Maastricht-Canada Master of Health Professions Education program and works extensively with groups like the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia.
Plenary title: Education scholarship: Looking back and looking forward
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Claude Julie Bourque
Claude Julie Bourque, PhD, is a sociologist (sociology of science), holds a PhD in education (higher education) and is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine at Université de Montréal. As an expert on complex research design adapted for fragile fields and sensitive subjects, she is leading many research projects in healthcare education based on interdisciplinary and interprofessional collaboration.
Prof. Bourque's plenary will untangle the differences between multidisciplinarity, pluridisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. We’ll dive into how interdisciplinary research teams come together to co-create research problems, questions, objectives and hypotheses, building a shared vision from diverse perspectives.Ìý
Along the way, we’ll explore the strengths, risks and challenges of interdisciplinary methods through real-world projects involving interprofessional training in intensive care, clinical ethics and pediatric rehabilitation. We’ll step into studies that bring together healthcare professionals from different professional profiles and even dancers! Expect the unexpected: this is not your typical research presentation.
Plenary title:ÌýBeyond Boundaries: The Promise and Pitfalls of Interdisciplinarity in Healthcare Education Innovation and Research