Dr. Goldszmidt successfully defends his PhD
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Mark Goldszmidt, Associate Director, Centre for Education Research and Innovation and Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine now adds a PhD to a long list of degrees and honours he has achieved. He successfully defended his PhD in education at Maastricht University in the Netherlands on September 2nd. With this achievement, Dr. Goldszmidt becomes one of very few clinician’s at Schulich Medicine & Dentistry to earn a PhD in education and one of a very small group nationally.
Dr. Goldszmidt’s thesis was entitled “Communication and Reasoning on Clinical Teaching Teams:The Genres that Shape Care and Education”. Perhaps not surprisingly, the focus of the work was on the internal medicine inpatient clinical teaching unit and the ways in which their communication practices support and constrain the teams’ ability to provide safe patient care and trainee education. As part of the thesis work, he studied case review, clinical documentation, clinical reasoning and attending styles of practice. All of his thesis studies have been successfully published in the journals Academic Medicine and Medical Education:
Dr. Goldszmidt’s thesis was entitled “Communication and Reasoning on Clinical Teaching Teams:The Genres that Shape Care and Education”. Perhaps not surprisingly, the focus of the work was on the internal medicine inpatient clinical teaching unit and the ways in which their communication practices support and constrain the teams’ ability to provide safe patient care and trainee education. As part of the thesis work, he studied case review, clinical documentation, clinical reasoning and attending styles of practice. All of his thesis studies have been successfully published in the journals Academic Medicine and Medical Education:
1. Goldszmidt M, Faden L, Dornan T, van MnJ, Bordage G, Lingard L. Attending Physician Variability: A Model of Four Supervisory Styles. Academic Medicine. 2015;Publish Ahead of Print.
2. Goldszmidt M, Dornan T, Lingard L. Progressive collaborative refinement on teams: implications for communication practices. Med.Educ. 2014;48(3):301-314.
3. Goldszmidt M, Minda JP, Bordage G. Developing a Unified List of Physicians' Reasoning Tasks During Clinical Encounters. Academic Medicine. 2013;88(3):390-397.
4. Goldszmidt M, Aziz N, Lingard L. Taking a Detour: Positive and Negative Effects of Supervisors' Interruptions During Admission Case Review Discussions. Acad.Med. 2012;87(10):1382-138
2. Goldszmidt M, Dornan T, Lingard L. Progressive collaborative refinement on teams: implications for communication practices. Med.Educ. 2014;48(3):301-314.
3. Goldszmidt M, Minda JP, Bordage G. Developing a Unified List of Physicians' Reasoning Tasks During Clinical Encounters. Academic Medicine. 2013;88(3):390-397.
4. Goldszmidt M, Aziz N, Lingard L. Taking a Detour: Positive and Negative Effects of Supervisors' Interruptions During Admission Case Review Discussions. Acad.Med. 2012;87(10):1382-138
When asked about the value of doing the PhD, Dr. Goldszmidt says “it was a great decision. For the first time in my research career I did not feel guilty about taking the time to immerse myself in theoretical and methodological considerations. Doing the work also allowed me to see how generous my colleagues, residents and students can be; I could not have done the work without their support as well as that of my colleagues at CERI”.
