Cassandra Barber

ORCID: 0000-0003-3605-8485
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Research Areas
  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Global Health Workforce Issues
  • Medical Education and Admissions
  • Diversity and Career in Medicine
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
  • African history and culture studies
  • Ethics in Clinical Research
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Education Systems and Policy
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Radiology practices and education
  • Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership
  • Cultural Competency in Health Care
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Public Health Policies and Education
  • Healthcare cost, quality, practices
  • Health, Nursing, Elderly Care
  • Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
  • Agriculture and Rural Development Research
  • Healthcare Systems and Technology
  • HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms
  • Community Health and Development

McMaster University
2022-2025

Maastricht University
2022-2025

Western University
2017-2024

Bruyère
2024

University of York
2020

Hull York Medical School
2020

Impact
2017

King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre
1994

Science Oxford
1992

Changes in digital technology, increasing volume of data collection, and advances methods have the potential to unleash value big generated through education health professionals. Coupled with this are legitimate concerns about how can be used or misused ways that limit autonomy, equity, harm stakeholders. This consensus statement is intended address these issues by foregrounding ethical imperatives for engaging as well risks challenges. Recognizing wide ever evolving scope scholarship, we...

10.1080/0142159x.2023.2298762 article EN Medical Teacher 2024-02-02

There exists an assumption that improving medical education will improve patient care. While seemingly logical, this premise has rarely been investigated. In Invited Commentary, the authors propose use of big data to test assumption. The present a few example research studies linking and care outcomes argue using may more easily facilitate process needed investigate also collaboration is link educational health data. They then introduce grassroots initiative, inclusive universities in one...

10.1097/acm.0000000000002217 article EN Academic Medicine 2018-03-14

This AMEE guide focuses on instilling social accountability (SA) concept and values into health professions education (HPE) curricula with the goal of producing competent, compassionate healthcare professionals who can act as change agents within system. By incorporating SA, HPE schools will instil in their students a strong sense for addressing needs communities they serve. presents comprehensive framework embedding SA curriculum, covering various aspects curriculum design, implementation,...

10.1080/0142159x.2024.2412098 article EN Medical Teacher 2024-10-17

To determine which admissions variables and curricular outcomes are predictive of being at risk failing the Medical Council Canada Qualifying Examination Part 1 (MCCQE1), how quickly student failure can be predicted, to what extent modeling is possible accurate in estimating future risk.Data from five graduating cohorts (2011-2015), Schulich School Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, were collected analyzed using hierarchical generalized linear models (HGLMs). Area under receiver...

10.1097/acm.0000000000001938 article EN Academic Medicine 2017-09-27

Phenomenon: Social accountability has become a universal component in medical education. However, schools have little guidance for operationalizing and applying this concept practice. This study explored institutional practices administrative perceptions of social Approach: An online survey was distributed to purposeful sample English-speaking undergraduate school deans program directors/leads from 245 institutions 14 countries. The comprised 38-items related mission statements, admission...

10.1080/10401334.2022.2103815 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Teaching and Learning in Medicine 2022-07-29

Introduction: The College of Family Physicians Canada (CFPC) offers the Certificate Added Competence (CAC) program to designate a family physician with enhanced skills. In 2015, expanded its introduce certification in four new domains: Palliative Care, Care Elderly, Sports and Exercise Medicine, Practice Anesthesia. this study, we elicited perceptions from Canadian physicians without CAC on practice impacts associated program. Methods: Active CACs were surveyed between November 2019 January...

10.36834/cmej.77114 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Canadian Medical Education Journal 2023-10-16

This article presents the development of Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity, and Accessibility (EDIA) Cross-Cutting Theme Project within Team Primary Care (TPC) initiative, aimed at addressing systemic inequities through innovative educational strategies. Grounded in social accountability health professions framework, this project aims to equip primary care teams with knowledge, skills, attitudes necessary promote equity. The EDIA Integrated Educational Experience (IEE) model includes a...

10.1177/08404704241264236 article EN cc-by Healthcare Management Forum 2024-07-24

Purpose To create medical school service regions and examine national in-region graduate retention patterns across the education continuum into professional practice as one approach to advancing social accountability in education.

10.1080/10872981.2024.2403805 article EN cc-by Medical Education Online 2024-11-03

Abstract There is an expectation that health professions schools respond to priority societal needs. This largely based on the underlying assumption are aware of needs in their communities. paper demonstrates how open-access, pan-national data can be used create a reliable index assist identifying and advance social accountability education. Using open-access data, psychometric evaluation was conducted examine reliability validity Canadian Health Indicators Framework (CHIF) conceptual model....

10.1007/s10459-023-10248-5 article EN cc-by Advances in Health Sciences Education 2023-06-22
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