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Assessment in medical education is targeted to individuals. But practice is collaborative, involving teams of individuals working together. This reality creates a dilemma for assessment: how can the interdependence of individuals' clinical work be understood in a way that enables meaningful assessment of collaborative practice?
Dr. Lorelei Lingard's groundbreaking work in this domain has received an important funding boost. Dr. Lingard, CERI's Senior Scientist, has been awarded $149,999 over two years from the Stemmler Medical Education Research Fund, which supports work in the domain of medical education assessment. In collaboration with Dr. Stefanie Sebok-Syer, Instructor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, Dr. Lingard's project - “Conceptualizing and Assessing Interdependent Performance in Collaborative Clinical Environments” - will push the boundaries of current assessment strategies. Dr. Sebok-Syer is no strnager to CERI either, having done her postdoctoral fellowship training at CERI under Dr. Lingard's supervision. This forward-thinking work has the potential to change how we conceptualize clinical performance, and how we approach its assessment.
