Breaking Ground in Radiology Education

Kathy Hibbert, Centre Researcher

At the Centre for Education Research & Innovation we have a broad community of Centre collaborators dedicated to academic ressearch in the health professions. In an effort to spread research news throughout our community, we are proud to announce the release of The Practice of Radiology Education: Challenges & Trends (2010), co-authored by one of our longest standing collaborators, Dr. Kathy Hibbert (Education/Medicine). This is the second book in the field co-edited with colleagues (educator Dr. Teresa Van Deven and radiologist and educator Dr. Rethy Chhem); a companion piece for Radiology Education: The Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (2009).

A recent JAMA review called The Practice of Radiology Education “a valuable reference to help design, develop, and implement more effective training programs . . . emphasizing the important relationship between teaching and education—vital in all medical specialties—which ultimately leads to improved patient care.”  After the publication of her first book, the radiology community asked for this second one to be written. The process that she has engaged in with the global community of radiology educators, practitioners and scholars has allowed her to begin a dialogue that has helped individuals, teams and departments reconceptualise what they are doing and how they are doing it.

Kathy’s books are the results of a productive collaboration between radiology practitioners and scholars in medical education research. According to her “until and unless we can make our practice ‘visible’, it is difficult to imagine how we might improve it.” With the support of a University of Western Ontario Academic Development Fund Major Grant, a National Study of Scholarship in Radiology Education across Canada has been conducted with the results pointing in part to a significant need for improved clarification and professional faculty development to occur around the topic of Assessment and Evaluation. As a result, Kathy and her team have been asked to produce a third book in the series, with a focus on Assessment and Evaluation to highlight promising practices and build strategies. They are currently in the process of developing the proposal for that book.

Congratulations!

Posted by: Allan