Dr. Glenn Regehr
Associate Director, Centre for Research in EducationUniversity of Toronto
CANADA
Glenn Regehr received his PhD in experimental cognitive psychology from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1993 under the supervision of Dr. Lee Brooks. His thesis work focused on the development of expertise in visual classification tasks (such as dermatological diagnosis). He trained for one year as a research associate in medical education with Dr. Geoff Norman at McMaster University Medical Centre, and joined the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine as an assistant professor and researcher in August, 1993. In June 1998, he was appointed as the first Associate Director of the newly established University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine Centre for Research in Education at the University Health Network.
Currently, as well as being the Associate Director of the CRE, Dr. Regehr is Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Surgery in the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, Associate Faculty in the University of Toronto Department of Education and is a Scientist in the Toronto General Research Institute at the University Health Network. He has chaired the Association of Canadian Medical Colleges Committee on Research in Medical Education for the last four years and has chaired the Association for Surgical Education Research Committee for the last 2 years. He sits on the editorial boards of Advances in Health Sciences Education and Medical Education, and is a member of the Editorial Research Advisory Committee for Academic Medicine.
In addition to his research interests in cognitive psychology and adult learning, Dr. Regehr has researched and published in a variety of content domains including: the evaluation of selection procedures for undergraduate and post-graduate training programs, the development of new methodologies for studying self-assessment ability in trainees, the refinement of clinical skills assessment tools such as the Objective Structured Clinical Exam, and the teaching and testing of technical skills in surgery.
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