Kevin W Eva
Biographic Data
| ID | 4228914 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin W Eva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin W |
| FAMILY NAME | Eva |
| SIGNATURE | EVA K W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8672-2500 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 40 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
With great power comes great responsibility
Droppin' it like it's hot
So long. Farewell. Auf Wiedersehen. Adieu. Editor‐in‐chief, Kevin Eva offers excitement about the future of Medical Education as he steps away from the role
Consistency and inconsistency with which sociodemographic variables are associated with performance on medical school selection tools
INTRODUCTION: The tools and processes used to select applicants to medical school and residency training play a critical role in determining the future of healthcare. As selection strategies evolve to keep up with the competencies expected of physicians and the social accountability mandates of medical education programs, it is increasingly imperative that we develop awareness of how equity is influenced by how admissions decisions are made. This…
How do medical educators discern, decode, and act upon trainees appearing to engage in impression management
INTRODUCTION: Trainees are motivated to impress clinical teachers, making impression management common. Such efforts are beneficial, but problematic when 'targets' are misled or learning opportunities missed. Guiding faculty regarding impression management is difficult because little is known about what cues yield perceptions of being managed. METHODS: A qualitative study was performed to explore faculty perspectives on: (1) recognising cues indi…
When enough is enough
INTRODUCTION: Questioning has, since Socrates, been touted as an effective teaching technique, but its use in health professions education is controversial due to the risk of inducing counterproductively negative trainee experiences. While much has been written on optimal methods of questioning, disconnects continue to arise between well-intentioned preceptors and how questioning is experienced. Thus, the authors explored if and how learners try …
How can I help at this moment? Outlining three generations of coaching for health professions educators
Considerations of equity, diversity and inclusion in peer reviews conducted for Medical Education
What equity, diversity and inclusion issues are commented upon by Med Educ's reviewers? This commentary offers an analysis and recommendations for authors, reviewers and editors alike
Constructive dialogue
The editors detail how Medical Education's 2025 State of the Science issue aimed to stimulate cross‐cultural dialogue for the betterment of our field
The tip of the iceberg and beyond
Where does the time go?! As we move into the latter parts of 2025, another great meeting of the Association for the Study of Medical Education brings the announcement of our annual award winners. I am thrilled, as a result, to again share news about groups that made particularly strong contributions to Medical Education this past year. Of course, these individuals are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the many to whom we are grateful for en…
Residents' perceptions of what makes feedback valuable in workplace‐based learning
Really good stuff just got even better
Medical Education's Editors announce that Really Good Stuff will now be published monthly, with rolling peer review. Read this to discover how to join our RGS Reviewer Panel
A Phenomenological Exploration of Physicians’ Moral Distress
Embracing the future
Pusic, Crampton, and Eva announce the release of Medical Education's 15th annual State of the Science issue: Embracing the Future
Hear ye! Hear ye! A proclamation of deadlines and deeds done well
The Editor‐in‐chief shares the tremendous news of this year's award winners (and a final warning about the looming Medical Education Unleashed deadline)
Medical Education and artificial intelligence
Our Editor‐in‐chief details Medical Education's policy on the use of artificial intelligence in publishing
Transitioning to Telehealth
When Feedback is Not Perceived as Feedback
Quality improvement as a statement of values
The Editor‐in‐chief outlines the inspiration behind this year's State of the Science issue: striving to constantly do better
Brace yourself
It is said that imitation is the greatest form of flattery. Is it narcissism then to copy oneself? Whatever the label and whatever the accusations that come with it, some things are worth repeating. To wit ... In 2016, the celebration of Medical Education's 50th volume culminated in publication of a somewhat satirical, somewhat spoofy, issue entitled ‘Medical Education Unleashed’.1 To create it, the journal solicited ‘quirky papers on topics of r…
Welcome in
The Editor announces a new resource aimed at supporting newcomers to health professional education scholarship: Medical Education Office Hours! See mededuc.com to register
Connections within the seemingly inevitable triad of self, social and situation
Seeing links others have missed? Our Editor‐in‐chief offers a challenge to health professional education scholars to draw Connections between Medical Education articles that offer new insights for the field
Effect of station format on the psychometric properties of Multiple Mini Interviews
A plethora of good news within a pledge to keep moving forward
Being a product of its time, it will come as no surprise to readers that Medical Education has published a flurry of papers focused on different aspects of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) recently. In fact, since we dedicated a State of the Science issue to the topic 7 years ago,1 there has been a steady drip of relevant publications that has only increased in pace with no fewer than three “When I Say” articles2-4 seeking to add a degree o…
Exploring the Contributions of Combined Model Regional Medical Education Campuses to the Physician Workforce
PURPOSE: Physician shortages and maldistribution, particularly within family medicine, have led many medical schools worldwide to create regional medical campuses (RMCs) for clerkship training. However, Canadian medical schools have developed a number of RMCs in which all years of training (i.e., a combined model that includes both preclerkship and clinical training) are provided geographically separate from the main campus. This study addresses …
Altruism as enlightened self‐interest
It is so very hard to write about the value of being a peer reviewer when one is an editor without the effort seeming like a contrived self-supporting means of recruitment. So, let's start with full disclosure: Yes, Medical Education, like every other reputable journal, needs reviewers to help authors strengthen their work and help us curate the best possible periodical. That has never been more true than it is now as the pandemic has seen a rate…
Physician Cognitive Processing as a Source of Diagnostic and Treatment Disparities in Coronary Heart Disease
Literature on health disparities documents variations in clinical decision-making across patient characteristics, physician attributes, and among health care systems. Using data from a vignette-based factorial experiment of 256 primary care providers, we examine the cognitive basis of disparities in the diagnosis and treatment of coronary heart disease (CHD). We explore whether previously observed disparities are due to physicians (1) not fully c…
Self-Assessments for Workshop Evaluations
Physician Cognitive Processing as a Source of Diagnostic and Treatment Disparities in Coronary Heart Disease
Literature on health disparities documents variations in clinical decision-making across patient characteristics, physician attributes, and among health care systems. Using data from a vignette-based factorial experiment of 256 primary care providers, we examine the cognitive basis of disparities in the diagnosis and treatment of coronary heart disease (CHD). We explore whether previously observed disparities are due to physicians (1) not fully c…
Construct-Aligned Rating Scales Improve the Reliability of Program Evaluation Data
In workplace-based assessment, research has suggested that aligning rating scales with how clinical supervisors naturally conceptualize trainee performance improves reliability and makes assessment more efficient. This study examined the generalizability of those findings for program evaluation by determining if construct alignment improves the reliability with which competencies are ranked as having been achieved in a medical education program. …
University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine
Medical Education Program Highlights Publicly funded, 4-year program, admitting 288 learners annually; distributed across 4 locations in the province of British Columbia (BC) including 3 regional medical campuses: the Island Medical Program (Victoria), the Northern Medical Program (Prince George), and the Southern Medical Program (SMP) (Kelowna). The main medical campus is the Vancouver Fraser Medical Program (Vancouver and Fraser Valley). All gr…
Idiosyncrasy in Assessment Comments
PURPOSE: Written comments are gaining traction as robust sources of assessment data. Compared with the structure of numeric scales, what faculty choose to write is ad hoc, leading to idiosyncratic differences in what is recorded. This study offers exploration of what aspects of writing styles are determined by the faculty offering comment and what aspects are determined by the trainee being commented upon. METHOD: The authors compiled in-training…
The Relationship Between Accreditation Cycle and Licensing Examination Scores
PURPOSE: Accreditation aims to ensure all training programs meet agreed-upon standards of quality. The process is complex, resource intensive, and costly. Its benefits are difficult to assess because contextual confounds obscure comparisons between systems that do and do not include accreditation. This study explores accreditation's influence "within system" by investigating the relationship between accreditation cycle and performance on a nation…
Examinee Cohort Size and Item Analysis Guidelines for Health Professions Education Programs
PURPOSE: Using item analyses is an important quality-monitoring strategy for written exams. Authors urge caution as statistics may be unstable with small cohorts, making application of guidelines potentially detrimental. Given the small cohorts common in health professions education, this study's aim was to determine the impact of cohort size on outcomes arising from the application of item analysis guidelines. METHOD: The authors performed a Mon…
The Influence of Relationship-Centered Coaching on Physician Perceptions of Peer Review in the Context of Mandated Regulatory Practices
PURPOSE: Medical regulatory authorities are legally mandated to protect patients by monitoring the practice of medicine. While principally a matter of public safety, many pursue this mission by establishing quality improvement initiatives that prioritize professional development for all rather than identification of substandard performers. Engaging practitioners in directed learning opportunities, however, is rife with challenge given inherent so…
An expression of gratitude to Medical Education Adaptations reviewers
As COVID-19 infection rates increased around the globe, it became clear very quickly that health professional education would be impacted to a degree never seen before.1 Pandemics have been experienced, but this was worldwide and was shutting down large swathes of the world in an unprecedented manner. In response, educators and education leaders scrambled, in the face of considerable uncertainty, to determine how to maintain education continuity …
Strange days
Wondering about the roles of (and opportunities for) health professional education scholarship are during these troubling times of COVID‐19? Our Editor‐in‐chief offers his thoughts to encourage others to engage in similar reflections
Some light amidst the darkness of recent world events
Our Editor‐in‐chief shares the joy and pain he is feeling as we celebrate exceptional contributions to the field while struggling with world events
Medical Education Adaptations
Hear ye, hear ye ... submissions now being accepted for a new Adaptations series aimed at sharing insights gained from the widespread educational transitions currently taking place
Exploring the Contributions of Combined Model Regional Medical Education Campuses to the Physician Workforce
PURPOSE: Physician shortages and maldistribution, particularly within family medicine, have led many medical schools worldwide to create regional medical campuses (RMCs) for clerkship training. However, Canadian medical schools have developed a number of RMCs in which all years of training (i.e., a combined model that includes both preclerkship and clinical training) are provided geographically separate from the main campus. This study addresses …
Altruism as enlightened self‐interest
It is so very hard to write about the value of being a peer reviewer when one is an editor without the effort seeming like a contrived self-supporting means of recruitment. So, let's start with full disclosure: Yes, Medical Education, like every other reputable journal, needs reviewers to help authors strengthen their work and help us curate the best possible periodical. That has never been more true than it is now as the pandemic has seen a rate…
Publishing during Covid‐19
Want to know how COVID‐19 changes health professional education research priorities? Our Editor‐in‐chief argues that in the most important ways it shouldn't
Incentives for clinical teachers
The problem with solutions
Ever wondered why academics make things so difficult? Ajjawi and Eva explain with their introduction of the 2021 State of the Science issue and this year's theme of Solution‐ism
Connections within the seemingly inevitable triad of self, social and situation
Seeing links others have missed? Our Editor‐in‐chief offers a challenge to health professional education scholars to draw Connections between Medical Education articles that offer new insights for the field
Effect of station format on the psychometric properties of Multiple Mini Interviews
A plethora of good news within a pledge to keep moving forward
Being a product of its time, it will come as no surprise to readers that Medical Education has published a flurry of papers focused on different aspects of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) recently. In fact, since we dedicated a State of the Science issue to the topic 7 years ago,1 there has been a steady drip of relevant publications that has only increased in pace with no fewer than three “When I Say” articles2-4 seeking to add a degree o…
Transitioning to Telehealth
When Feedback is Not Perceived as Feedback
Quality improvement as a statement of values
The Editor‐in‐chief outlines the inspiration behind this year's State of the Science issue: striving to constantly do better
Brace yourself
It is said that imitation is the greatest form of flattery. Is it narcissism then to copy oneself? Whatever the label and whatever the accusations that come with it, some things are worth repeating. To wit ... In 2016, the celebration of Medical Education's 50th volume culminated in publication of a somewhat satirical, somewhat spoofy, issue entitled ‘Medical Education Unleashed’.1 To create it, the journal solicited ‘quirky papers on topics of r…
Welcome in
The Editor announces a new resource aimed at supporting newcomers to health professional education scholarship: Medical Education Office Hours! See mededuc.com to register
Psychology (33 works) · Innovations in Medical Education (28 works) · Medicine (25 works) · Medical education (22 works) · Political science (20 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Medical Education and Admissions (10 works) · Law (9 works)