Faculty - Speakers
John (Jack) R. Boulet, PhD
Dr. Boulet is Associate Vice President, Research and Data Resources, for the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER). He is also the Assistant Vice President, Research and Evaluation, for the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG). For the past 10 years, Dr. Boulet has worked on the development of performance-based credentialing assessments in medicine. He has published extensively in the field of medical education, focusing specifically on measurement issues pertaining to performance-based assessments, including objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) and various mannequin-based evaluation methodologies. More recently, he has become involved in health workforce research, conducting studies to enumerate, and assess the impact of, physician migration. As part of ongoing FAIMER research activities, he is coordinating the development, linking, and mining of data resources that can help inform national and international policies concerning health workforce distribution.
W. Dale Dauphinee, MD, FRCPC
Dale is a physician who was the Executive Director of the Medical Council of Canada from 1993 until 2006. Other senior leadership roles which he held during that period include: Trustee of the American Board of Internal Medicine; Member of the Executive Board of the AAMC; Co-chair Canadian Task Force of the Licensure of International Medical Graduates; President of the Medical Identification Number of Canada Corporation; and President, Physician Credential Registry of Canada. His current activities involve research on physician support systems for better prescribing and monitoring it against actual practice outcomes; conducting practice outcomes studies of physicians in relation to their performance during pre-licensure assessment, such as OSCEs and tests of clinical decision-making. He also has been publishing analyses of medical workforce policies and physician settlement patterns in Canada. Among his many honors are: Distinguished Service Award of the Canadian Association for Medical Education; Charter member of the Canadian Institute of Academic Medicine; Hubbard Award of the NBME for contributions to evaluation; Elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences; Honorary member College of Family Physicians of Canada; and Distinguished Service Award Society of Academic Continuing Medical Education.
Tony LaDuca, PhD
Tony LaDuca serves as FAME Course Director. He has recently retired from the National Board of Medical Examiners after completing 25 years of service. His final assignment was as Principal Assessment Scientist with the Measurement Consulting Services unit. In that capacity he worked on projects relating to practice analysis, clinical judgment analysis, and computer-based rapid generation of test items. Beginning in 1981, Dr. LaDuca was responsible for the design of several licensure examinations, including NBME Part III, FLEX 1 and 2, and USMLE Step 3. He pioneered the concept of a “practice model” as a content reference and introduced systematic, objectives-based test item writing to the NBME. For several years he directed the NBME Post-Licensure Assessment Program. Prior to his tenure at the NBME, Dr. LaDuca was on the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College, and he was Associate Professor of Health Professions Education at the University of Illinois (Chicago) Center for Educational Development. He has published articles during five decades on a wide range of topics, including professions theory and professional competence, validation of licensure examinations, physicians’ clinical judgment, systematic item writing and item modeling, and model-based practice analysis. He has served on editorial boards of several educational journals and he has made presentations throughout the United States and Canada, as well as in China and several European countries.
Carol Morrison, PhD
Carol is the Associate Vice President, Scoring Services at the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME). She supervises the NBME subunit responsible for scoring, equating, scaling and other statistical analyses for operational examination programs such as the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE), medical school subject examination program, and a multitude of client examination programs. During her 15 years at the NBME, Carol has served as the psychometrician for USMLE Step 2 CK and Step 3 as well as for several specialty board examinations. She has also done numerous professional presentations, publications, and workshops on various measurement topics, including computerized adaptive testing, item response theory, standard setting, and test accommodations. Her professional interests include certification and licensure testing, computer-based testing, adaptive testing, standard setting, and quality assurance procedures for testing.
David B. Swanson, PhD
Dave is currently the Deputy Vice President of Professional Services at the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME). In that capacity he has overall responsibility for development of test material for USMLE, for the NBME subject examination and self-assessment programs, and for the health professions’ clients who contract with the NBME for testing services. Beginning in 1981 he directed the ABIM Computer-Based Examination project and conducted research on written and computer-based clinical simulations, the use of standardized patients for assessment of clinical skills, and measurement of communication skills and professionalism with ratings from real patients. In 1988, he joined the NBME staff, directing USMLE Step 1 until 2001, when he moved into his current position. Dave has co-authored and presented dozens of articles. Topics include assessment of medical decision making with multiple-choice tests, patient management problems, and computer-based clinical simulations; assessment of clinical skills with standardized patients; issues in computer-based testing; patterns of performance on admissions, licensure and certification examinations; and use of the internet for construction of customized examinations for use by medical schools. He has also conducted item-writing and other assessment-related workshops at dozens of medical schools and professional conferences nationally and internationally.
Faculty - Facilitators
Helena Davies, MBChB(Hons), MD. FRCPCH
Helena Davies is a clinical academic in Medical Education/Late Effects (of Cancer therapy), University of Sheffield (Honorary Consultant Sheffield Childrens Hospital). Helena has a particular research interest in the development, implementation and evaluation of work based assessment. Her team has developed and validated a range of work based assessment tools including a multisource feedback tool (SPRAT) and a patient assessment tool (SHEFFPAT). She has led the research and quality assurance of the UK National Foundation Assessment Programme, a work based assessment system consisting of 4 tools for which there is currently data on over 5000 trainees. She has also undertaken work in relation to assessment with a range of organisations including the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Royal College of Pathologists, the National Clinical Assessment Service, Postgraduate Medical Education and Assessment Board in the UK and NBME and American Board of Paediatrics in the US.
Ann King, MA
Ann is an Assessment Scientist in the Measurement Consulting Services unit at the National Board of Medical Examiners. Her current activities include teaching medical school faculty to develop better assessment tools; conducting research and development on the assessment instruments used in the clinical skills arena; and improving the understanding of clinical decision making. Previously, Ann was responsible for the test development unit that launched the United States Medical Licensing Exam, Step 2 Clinical Skills Exam in 2004. Ann has more than twenty years in the field of clinical skills assessment including 18 years at the NBME. She has mentored leaders in medical education at more than fifty medical schools in the United States and abroad. She has published and presented extensively on high stakes assessments using standardized patients. In 2004 Ann received the Outstanding Educator Award from the Association of Standardized Patients of which she is a founder.
Marina R. Mrouga. MD, PhD
Marina is the Deputy Director of Testing Board of Professional Competence Assessment, Ukraine since its establishment in 1999. Testing Board (the only body in the country that runs nation-wide mandatory exams) provides licensing examinations for all health care students and graduates in the country, including medical doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists. Testing Board has introduced unique model for professional development of medical educators via participation in national test development and evaluation of assessment results. At the Testing Board Dr. Mrouga oversees the conceptual issues of assessment, including development of assessment instruments for new categories of examinees, and deals with teaching of educators to test construction, analysis, use of assessment results for improvement of teaching and learning. Also she is a member of national policy group of medical education reform, promoting use of effective assessment technologies, especially after joining of Ukraine to Bologna process. Her work in the policy group facilitated implementation at many Ukrainian medical school of OSCE-type exam that was first piloted in Ukraine by Dr. Mrouga. Her PhD is devoted with models of professional competence of physicians and their influence on assessment tools.
Ingrid Philibert, MHA, MBA
Ingrid is the Senior Vice President, Department of Field Activities at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). She is responsible for the Council’s 31 MD and PhD accreditation field representatives, for all aspects of the approximately 2,000 site visits conducted annually at accredited program and sponsoring institutions, and for related policy and development efforts. She also edits the ACGME Bulletin, manages the Council’s database of accredited programs, and staffs the ACGME Strategic Initiatives Subcommittee and Committee on Innovation in the Learning Environment. She received master’s degrees in hospital and health care administration and business administration from the University of Iowa, and is working on her doctoral dissertation. She serves as an At-Large Member of the National Board of Medical Examiners. She is a member of its Center for Innovation Advisory Committee, and its Professional Behaviors Advisory Committee. She also has served as a member of the National Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005 and served as Senior Baldrige Examiner for 2006. Her research interests are patient hand-off in teaching settings, simulation and rehearsal in medical education, and the effect of limits on resident duty hours on resident learning and the provision of clinical care in teaching institutions.
Lesley Southgate DBE DSc FRCS FRCGP
Professor Dame Lesley Southgate is Professor of Medical Education at St George’s Hospital Medical School. She is a general practitioner and was active in patient care until she became President of the RCGP in 2000. From 1996-2004 she led the President's programme to develop and implement the assessment methods for the GMC performance procedures for the medical profession. She was a member of the Postgraduate Medical Education Training Board (PMETB) to November 2006 where she chaired the Statutory Committee on Assessment and its subcommittee on examinations in postgraduate training until January 2006. She is the principal author of the Board’s paper on principles for assessment, now a requirement for all post-graduate assessments programmes in the UK. She is known internationally and nationally for her work on the assessment of competence and performance of physicians.
Professor Southgate led a project to introduce in-training workplace based assessment for the foundation programme for all UK trainees. This work is the basis for a national programme started in October 2005, in which 5,000 trainee doctors are presently enrolled. She now continues that work with Helena Davies, Julian Archer and John Norcini.
Current major responsibilities include the leadership of the recertification technical group for British GPs which will develop and propose the shape and content of the recertification for all 35,000 plus UK family doctors on the GMC specialist register.
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Dame Lesley is also President of ASME and Chairman of the Academy of Medical Educators established in 2007 to promote excellence in all aspects of Medical Education and Training.