Shiphra Ginsburg MD PhD MEd FRCPC
Scientist - The Wilson Centre
Staff Physician, Mount Sinai Hospital
Canada Research Chair in Health Professions Education
Professor, Internal Medicine (Respirology)
University of Toronto
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Shiphra Ginsburg, MD, MEd, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Medicine and a Scientist at the Wilson Centre at the University of Toronto. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Health Professions Education. Dr. Ginsburg completed medical school at McGill, followed by postgraduate training in Internal Medicine and Respirology and a Master of Education at the University of Toronto. In 2016 she completed a PhD in Health Professions Education at Maastricht University. Dr. Ginsburg serves as Deputy Editor at the journal Medical Education and is on the Editorial Board of Academic Medicine. In 2019 she was selected as one of 12 international, inaugural Fellows for the Karolinska Institute Prize for Research in Medical Education.
Research Program
Dr. Ginsburg’s program of research involves two inter-related areas. The first explores how clinical supervisors conceptualize, assess and communicate about the performance and competence of their learners, with a focus on the language used in workplace-based assessment. The second area explores the construct of professionalism in medical education, from the perspective of learners, faculty and practicing physicians. Dr. Ginsburg’s research involves the use of qualitative and mixed methods. She also collaborates widely with colleagues from U of T and nationally/internationally on projects related to feedback, implicit gender bias in assessment, the effect of the environment on performance assessments, how successful people handle failure, and issues central to the field of medical education research and scholarship in general, including academic publishing and dissemination.
Current Fellow(s) and HPER Doctoral Student(s): Wendy Ye