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From Utopia Through Dystopia

Charting a Course for Learning Analytics in Competency-Based Medical Education

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ID21614780
AuthorsBerenike Thomas (0000-0003-1124-5786, is associate professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and clinician educator, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; ORCID:., corresponding author), Rachel Ellaway (0000-0002-3759-6624, is professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, and director, Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; ORCID:.), Teresa M Chan (0000-0001-6104-462X, is associate professor, Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, assistant dean, Program for Faculty Development, Faculty of Health Sciences, and adjunct scientist, McMaster Education Research, Innovation, and Theory (MERIT) program, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; ORCID:.)
Year2021
Volume96
Issue7S
PagesS89-S95
Publication date2021-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAcademic Medicine (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1040-2446 • E-ISSN: 1938-808X
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1097/acm.0000000000004092
PMID34183609
OpenAlexW3175170542
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited45

The transition to the assessment of entrustable professional activities as part of competency-based medical education (CBME) has substantially increased the number of assessments completed on each trainee. Many CBME programs are having difficulty synthesizing the increased amount of assessment data. Learning analytics are a way of addressing this by systematically drawing inferences from large datasets to support trainee learning, faculty development, and program evaluation. Early work in this field has tended to emphasize the significant potential of analytics in medical education. However, concerns have been raised regarding data security, data ownership, validity, and other issues that could transform these dreams into nightmares. In this paper, the authors explore these contrasting perspectives by alternately describing utopian and dystopian futures for learning analytics within CBME. Seeing learning analytics as an important way to maximize the value of CBME assessment data for organizational development, they argue that their implementation should continue within the guidance of an ethical framework

Analytics · Data Analysis · Data science · Dystopia · Learning analytics · Medical education · Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education · Computer Science · Innovations in Medical Education · Medicine · Psychology · Radiology practices and education · Artificial Intelligence

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Unique citing works7
Citations per year1,4
Citation span2021 - 2024 (4)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 7
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