Course Directors

John (Jack) R. Boulet, PhD

Dr. Boulet serves as FAME Course co-director. He is Associate Vice President, Research and Data Resources, for the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER) and Assistant Vice President, Research and Evaluation, for the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG).  For the past 15 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.  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. Dr. Boulet currently serves on the editorial boards for Advances in Health Sciences Education, Education for Health, and Simulation in Healthcare.  He is the deputy editor for Medical Education.

Ann King, MA

Ms. King serves as FAME Course co-director. 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-five years in the field of clinical skills assessment including 20 years at the NBME.  She has mentored leaders in medical education at more than 100 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.

 

Faculty

W. Dale Dauphinee, MD, FRCPC

Dr. Dauphinee is a physician who is a Senior Scientist with the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research and an Adjunct Professor at McGill University. Previously he was Director of the Center for Medical Education and Chair of the Department of Medicine at McGill University, and then Executive Director of the Medical Council of Canada from 1993 until 2006. Other senior leadership roles have included: 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; President, Physician Credential Registry of Canada; and Co-Chair of the Advisory Board for the Canadian Collaborative Center on Physician Resources. His current research activities include the use of physician decision-support systems and monitoring the results 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; and conducting 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; Distinguished Service Award Society of Academic Continuing Medical Education, and Emeritus Membership of the AAMC.

 

Melissa Margolis, MS

Ms. Margolis is a Measurement Scientist in the Measurement Consulting Services unit at the National Board of Medical Examiners. Her present responsibilities involve coordination and oversight of standard setting activities for the USMLE program, including development of novel standard setting procedures for the clinical skills and CCS examination formats. Ms. Margolis also provides consulting services relating to evaluation and improvement of high-stakes assessments; domestic and international clients have included the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, the American Osteopathic Board of Orthopedic Surgeons, the Royal Colleges of Physicians, Radiologists, and Surgeons in the United Kingdom, and the National Medical Examination Center in China.

Ms. Margolis has published extensively in the educational measurement and medical education literature. Recent publications include a chapter on reliability and validity in the Practical Guide to the Evaluation of Clinical Competence and a chapter on licensure and certification in the fourth edition of Educational Measurement.

 

Ingrid Philibert, PhD, MBA

Dr. Philibert 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 data collection, policies and procedures, and professional and program development efforts. 

She also serves as the Managing Editor for the Journal of Graduate Medical Education and staffs the Journal Oversight Committee and Editorial Board.

Dr. Philibert received master’s degrees in hospital and health care administration and business administration, and a doctor of philosophy degree, all from the University of Iowa. 

She serves as a member of the National Board of Medical Examiners’ Center for Innovation Advisory Committee, Patient Safety Committee, Professional Behaviors Advisory Committee, and International Program Advisory Committee and has been at At-Large member of the NBME Board of Directors since March 2007.  She also has served as a member of the National Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for 2000, 2001, 2004 and 2005 and as Senior/Alumni Examiner for 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010.  Her research interests are patient hand-offs in teaching settings, simulation and rehearsal in medical education, and the effect of limits on resident duty hours on resident learning and acquisition of competence 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 postgraduate assessment programmes in the UK.

She is known internationally and nationally for her work on the assessment of competence and performance of physicians and in 2008 was awarded the prestigious Hubbard award by the US National Board of Medical Examiners for outstanding contribution to assessment of competence and performance of doctors in the international arena. Dame Lesley was elected a Board Member at large at the 2009 NBME annual meeting.

Present international work includes a connection with the Medical Academy of St Petersburg where she is a distinguished international professor and support for the Egyptian Board of Medical Specialties in the development of the certifying examinations for family medicine (MRCGP Int).

Professor Southgate led a project to introduce in-training workplace based assessment for the foundation programme for all UK trainees. This work was 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 have recently included 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. She is also presently the project lead for assessment and curriculum for the DH programme, Modernising Scientific Careers.

Dame Lesley is also President of ASME and was the founder and inaugural Chairman of the Academy of Medical Educators established in 2007 to promote excellence in all aspects of Medical Education and Training. The Academy has just elected its first President, and Dame Lesley remains a member of the Council.

David B. Swanson, PhD

Dr. Swanson is currently the Vice President for Program Development and Special Projects in the Assessment Programs unit at the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME). In that role, he works broadly on new NBME programs and services, international programs, and development of new assessment formats.  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. He joined the NBME staff in 1988, directing USMLE Step 1 until 2001. He served as the Vice President for Test Development Services until early 2010, when he moved into his current position.

Dave has co-authored and presented several hundred papers. 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.