Meredith Young
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 7784580 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Meredith Young |
| PRENOMES | Meredith |
| SOBRENOME | Young |
| ASSINATURA | YOUNG M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | McGill University Health Centre |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2036-2119 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Concept analysis
From psychometrics to partnerships
A taxonomy of research relationships
Conducting research is a deeply relational human endeavour – from the shared joy of engaging in an exciting project with a trusted research team to the complexities of navigating conflicting research priorities with a new collaborator. In this article, we explore seven different types of research relationships – from archenemy to academic bestie – and describe the advantages, disadvantages and forms of recognition befitting each of these relation…
What could we learn from team sports? Cohesion as a lens to understand research teams in health professions education
CONTEXT: Research in health professions education (HPE) is increasingly produced by collaborative teams that transcend disciplinary, institutional and professional boundaries. Yet, despite the centrality of these teams to the field's scholarly output, we know little about the social and structural dynamics that enable research teams to function well. In this Cross-Cutting Edge paper, we argue that the concept of cohesion-well established in sport…
Navigating the research landscape
Doing more with less
Community-based organizations (CBOs) played a key role in providing health and safety net support to low-income Latino communities during the COVID-19 pandemic; yet we know little about how organizations navigated challenges during this time. Understanding how CBOs navigate challenging periods is critical to ensuring a robust safety net for Latino and other underserved populations. We examined the factors that allowed CBOs to address Latino commu…
Is There a Problem With Evidence in Health Professions Education
What constitutes evidence, what value evidence has, and how the needs of knowledge producers and those who consume this knowledge might be better aligned are questions that continue to challenge the health sciences. In health professions education (HPE), debates on these questions have ebbed and flowed with little sense of resolution or progress. In this article, the authors explore whether there is a problem with evidence in HPE using thought ex…
Picking Up Where the Authors Left Off
Reading is ... an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction ... it returns us to a reckoning with time. —David Ulin1 Research is a scientific endeavor that aims to create knowledge by asking relevant questions, using rigorous approaches, and formulating sound conclusions.2–5 These activities ideally culminate in the publication of a manuscript. Conducting rigorous research, communicating the findings in writing, and navigating peer review a…
Social Network Analysis in Medical Education
Mortaz Hejri, Sara MD, PhD; Yousefi-Nooraie, Reza MD, PhD; Young, Meredith PhD; Nimmon, Laura PhD Author Information
Action‐project method
Coordinating Flight Paths to Facilitate Interorganizational Cooperation, Interdependence, and Autonomy
There is an ever-growing number of research and scholarship units that support medical education scholars, 1,2 a wealth of medical education or Health Professions Education master’s 3 and PhD 4 training programs, and a variety of groups and committees for medical educators in North America. To effectively serve their membership, organizations (a term we apply broadly to units, programs, and committees) must have a strong sense of who, what, how, …
From What We Are Doing to Why
Major life events afford opportunities to reflect on what matters. For the Research in Medical Education (RIME) Program Planning Committee, the events of 2020 and 2021 have been both celebratory and tragic. RIME turned 60 in 2021, which provided an opportunity to celebrate its longstanding commitment to promoting rigorous research and supporting the professional development of medical education scholars. 1 This celebratory milestone was tempered,…
Can I Ask a Question About URiM Awards That I Don’t Know the Answer to? Designing an Award for Underrepresented Medical Education Researchers
Meaningful Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) efforts may be stymied by concerns about whether proposed initiatives are performative or tokenistic. The purpose of this project was to analyze discussions by the Research in Medical Education (RIME) Program Planning committee about how best to recognize and support underrepresented in medicine (URiM) researchers in medical education to generate lessons learned that might inform local, national, …
When I say … response process validity evidence
In the latest “When I Say...” response process validity evidence is argued as requiring emotional and motivational processes, in addition to cognitive, if we are to strive for equity and fairness in educational measurement
Sound Practices
PURPOSE: Written examinations such as multiple-choice question (MCQ) exams are a key assessment strategy in health professions education (HPE), frequently used to provide feedback, to determine competency, or for licensure decisions. However, traditional psychometric approaches for monitoring the quality of written exams, defined as items that are discriminant and contribute to increase the overall reliability and validity of the exam scores, usu…
Does Educational Handover Influence Subsequent Assessment
PURPOSE: Educational handover (i.e., providing information about learners' past performance) is controversial. Proponents argue handover could help tailor learning opportunities. Opponents fear it could bias subsequent assessments and lead to self-fulfilling prophecies. This study examined whether raters provided with reports describing learners' minor weaknesses would generate different assessment scores or narrative comments than those who did …
Endarkening the Epistemé
The pervasive violence of racism has been revealed vividly in the past year. The response to the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated undeniable inequities in health care. Across the globe, people responded to the continual assault on Black life, crystallized by the death of George Floyd and others, by participating in mass uprisings. People have had to reckon, in unanticipated ways, with the unflinching disparities in opportunities, including access to…
Rime 60 Years
This year marks the 60th anniversary (1961–2021) of Research in Medical Education (RIME). Over the past 6 decades, RIME has selected medical education research to be presented each year at the Association of American Medical Colleges Annual Meeting: Learn Serve Lead and published in a supplement of Academic Medicine . In this article, the authors surveyed RIME chairs from the past 20 years to identify ways that RIME has advanced medical education…
The Distinctions Between Theory, Theoretical Framework, and Conceptual Framework
Health professions education (HPE) researchers are regularly asked to articulate their use of theory, theoretical frameworks, and conceptual frameworks in their research. However, all too often, these words are used interchangeably or without a clear understanding of the differences between these concepts. Further problematizing this situation is the fact that theory , theoretical framework , and conceptual framework are terms that are used in di…
Being Edgy in Health Professions Education
The philosophy of science is concerned with what science is, its conceptual framing and underlying logic, and its ability to generate meaningful and useful knowledge. To that end, concepts such as ontology (what exists and in what way), epistemology (the knowledge we use or generate), and axiology (the value of things) are important if somewhat neglected topics in health professions education scholarship. In an attempt to address this gap, Academ…
How Consistent Is Competent? Examining Variance in Psychomotor Skills Assessment
PURPOSE: Direct assessment of trainee performance across time is a core tenet of competency-based medical education. Unlike variability of psychomotor skills across levels of expertise, performance variability exhibited by a particular trainee across time remains unexplored. The goal of this study was to document the consistency of individual surgeons' technical skill performance. METHOD: A secondary analysis of assessment data (collected in 2010…
Postpositivism in Health Professions Education Scholarship
An understanding of the diversity of perspectives within the research paradigms of health professions education (HPE) is essential for rigorous research design and more purposeful engagement with the contributions of others. In this article, the authors explicitly discuss the underlying assumptions, notions of good scholarship, and shortcomings of the postpositivism research paradigm. While postpositivism is likely one of the more familiar paradi…
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 Effect of Foregrounding Intended Use on Observers’ Ratings and Comments in the Assessment of Clinical Competence
PURPOSE: Some educational programs have adopted the premise that the same assessment can serve both formative and summative goals; however, how observers understand and integrate the intended uses of assessment may affect the way they execute the assessment task. The objective of this study was to explore the effect of foregrounding a different intended use (formative vs summative learner assessment) on observer contributions (ratings and comment…
The influence of popular media on perceptions of personal and population risk in possible disease outbreaks
Infectious disease outbreaks are uncertain and potentially risky events that often attract significant media attention. Previous research has shown that, regardless of their objective severity, diseases receiving greater coverage in the media are considered to be more serious and more representative of a disease than those receiving less coverage. This study assesses the role of media coverage in estimations of population risk (measured as percei…
Food for thought. What you eat depends on your sex and eating companions
Who cares about health inequalities? Cross-country evidence from the World Health Survey
Reduction of health inequalities within and between countries is a global health priority, but little is known about the determinants of popular support for this goal. We used data from the World Health Survey to assess individual preferences for prioritizing reductions in health and health care inequalities. We used descriptive tables and regression analysis to study the determinants of preferences for reducing health inequalities as the primary…
Food for thought. What you eat depends on your sex and eating companions
The influence of popular media on perceptions of personal and population risk in possible disease outbreaks
Infectious disease outbreaks are uncertain and potentially risky events that often attract significant media attention. Previous research has shown that, regardless of their objective severity, diseases receiving greater coverage in the media are considered to be more serious and more representative of a disease than those receiving less coverage. This study assesses the role of media coverage in estimations of population risk (measured as percei…
Who cares about health inequalities? Cross-country evidence from the World Health Survey
Reduction of health inequalities within and between countries is a global health priority, but little is known about the determinants of popular support for this goal. We used data from the World Health Survey to assess individual preferences for prioritizing reductions in health and health care inequalities. We used descriptive tables and regression analysis to study the determinants of preferences for reducing health inequalities as the primary…
The Distinctions Between Theory, Theoretical Framework, and Conceptual Framework
Health professions education (HPE) researchers are regularly asked to articulate their use of theory, theoretical frameworks, and conceptual frameworks in their research. However, all too often, these words are used interchangeably or without a clear understanding of the differences between these concepts. Further problematizing this situation is the fact that theory , theoretical framework , and conceptual framework are terms that are used in di…
Being Edgy in Health Professions Education
The philosophy of science is concerned with what science is, its conceptual framing and underlying logic, and its ability to generate meaningful and useful knowledge. To that end, concepts such as ontology (what exists and in what way), epistemology (the knowledge we use or generate), and axiology (the value of things) are important if somewhat neglected topics in health professions education scholarship. In an attempt to address this gap, Academ…
How Consistent Is Competent? Examining Variance in Psychomotor Skills Assessment
PURPOSE: Direct assessment of trainee performance across time is a core tenet of competency-based medical education. Unlike variability of psychomotor skills across levels of expertise, performance variability exhibited by a particular trainee across time remains unexplored. The goal of this study was to document the consistency of individual surgeons' technical skill performance. METHOD: A secondary analysis of assessment data (collected in 2010…
Postpositivism in Health Professions Education Scholarship
An understanding of the diversity of perspectives within the research paradigms of health professions education (HPE) is essential for rigorous research design and more purposeful engagement with the contributions of others. In this article, the authors explicitly discuss the underlying assumptions, notions of good scholarship, and shortcomings of the postpositivism research paradigm. While postpositivism is likely one of the more familiar paradi…
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 Effect of Foregrounding Intended Use on Observers’ Ratings and Comments in the Assessment of Clinical Competence
PURPOSE: Some educational programs have adopted the premise that the same assessment can serve both formative and summative goals; however, how observers understand and integrate the intended uses of assessment may affect the way they execute the assessment task. The objective of this study was to explore the effect of foregrounding a different intended use (formative vs summative learner assessment) on observer contributions (ratings and comment…
Sound Practices
PURPOSE: Written examinations such as multiple-choice question (MCQ) exams are a key assessment strategy in health professions education (HPE), frequently used to provide feedback, to determine competency, or for licensure decisions. However, traditional psychometric approaches for monitoring the quality of written exams, defined as items that are discriminant and contribute to increase the overall reliability and validity of the exam scores, usu…
Does Educational Handover Influence Subsequent Assessment
PURPOSE: Educational handover (i.e., providing information about learners' past performance) is controversial. Proponents argue handover could help tailor learning opportunities. Opponents fear it could bias subsequent assessments and lead to self-fulfilling prophecies. This study examined whether raters provided with reports describing learners' minor weaknesses would generate different assessment scores or narrative comments than those who did …
Endarkening the Epistemé
The pervasive violence of racism has been revealed vividly in the past year. The response to the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated undeniable inequities in health care. Across the globe, people responded to the continual assault on Black life, crystallized by the death of George Floyd and others, by participating in mass uprisings. People have had to reckon, in unanticipated ways, with the unflinching disparities in opportunities, including access to…
Rime 60 Years
This year marks the 60th anniversary (1961–2021) of Research in Medical Education (RIME). Over the past 6 decades, RIME has selected medical education research to be presented each year at the Association of American Medical Colleges Annual Meeting: Learn Serve Lead and published in a supplement of Academic Medicine . In this article, the authors surveyed RIME chairs from the past 20 years to identify ways that RIME has advanced medical education…
Coordinating Flight Paths to Facilitate Interorganizational Cooperation, Interdependence, and Autonomy
There is an ever-growing number of research and scholarship units that support medical education scholars, 1,2 a wealth of medical education or Health Professions Education master’s 3 and PhD 4 training programs, and a variety of groups and committees for medical educators in North America. To effectively serve their membership, organizations (a term we apply broadly to units, programs, and committees) must have a strong sense of who, what, how, …
From What We Are Doing to Why
Major life events afford opportunities to reflect on what matters. For the Research in Medical Education (RIME) Program Planning Committee, the events of 2020 and 2021 have been both celebratory and tragic. RIME turned 60 in 2021, which provided an opportunity to celebrate its longstanding commitment to promoting rigorous research and supporting the professional development of medical education scholars. 1 This celebratory milestone was tempered,…
Can I Ask a Question About URiM Awards That I Don’t Know the Answer to? Designing an Award for Underrepresented Medical Education Researchers
Meaningful Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) efforts may be stymied by concerns about whether proposed initiatives are performative or tokenistic. The purpose of this project was to analyze discussions by the Research in Medical Education (RIME) Program Planning committee about how best to recognize and support underrepresented in medicine (URiM) researchers in medical education to generate lessons learned that might inform local, national, …
When I say … response process validity evidence
In the latest “When I Say...” response process validity evidence is argued as requiring emotional and motivational processes, in addition to cognitive, if we are to strive for equity and fairness in educational measurement
Picking Up Where the Authors Left Off
Reading is ... an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction ... it returns us to a reckoning with time. —David Ulin1 Research is a scientific endeavor that aims to create knowledge by asking relevant questions, using rigorous approaches, and formulating sound conclusions.2–5 These activities ideally culminate in the publication of a manuscript. Conducting rigorous research, communicating the findings in writing, and navigating peer review a…
Social Network Analysis in Medical Education
Mortaz Hejri, Sara MD, PhD; Yousefi-Nooraie, Reza MD, PhD; Young, Meredith PhD; Nimmon, Laura PhD Author Information
Action‐project method
Is There a Problem With Evidence in Health Professions Education
What constitutes evidence, what value evidence has, and how the needs of knowledge producers and those who consume this knowledge might be better aligned are questions that continue to challenge the health sciences. In health professions education (HPE), debates on these questions have ebbed and flowed with little sense of resolution or progress. In this article, the authors explore whether there is a problem with evidence in HPE using thought ex…
Navigating the research landscape
Doing more with less
Community-based organizations (CBOs) played a key role in providing health and safety net support to low-income Latino communities during the COVID-19 pandemic; yet we know little about how organizations navigated challenges during this time. Understanding how CBOs navigate challenging periods is critical to ensuring a robust safety net for Latino and other underserved populations. We examined the factors that allowed CBOs to address Latino commu…
Concept analysis
From psychometrics to partnerships
Innovations in Medical Education (17 obras) · Medicine (14 obras) · Psychology (14 obras) · Medical education (11 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Computer Science (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Scholarship (7 obras) · Applied Psychology (5 obras) · Engineering ethics (5 obras)