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
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 Fellows and HPER Doctoral Students
Amanda Hempel
Amanda Hempel is a Research Fellow at the Wilson Centre a Master of Health Professional Education student at Maastricht University. She completed her medical degree and Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease residencies at the University of Toronto and a Diploma of Tropical Medicine at the Gorgas Institute. Her scholarly interests are in the optimization of programmatic assessment and competency-based medical education, with a focus on connecting theory to practice in post graduate medical education. Her clinical interests are in HIV and Tropical Medicine.
Supervisor: Shiphra Ginsburg
Wendy Ye
Wendy Ye is a Research Fellow at the Wilson Center and a Master of Health Professional Education student at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. She is one of two Chief Medical Residents in the Adult Nephrology training program at the University of Toronto. Her scholarly interests include curriculum development and remediation of non-medical knowledge skills including professionalism, leadership, and communication. She completed her HBSc in physiology and biochemistry at the University of Toronto, followed by her MD, MSc, and Internal Medicine training at McMaster University. Her clinical interests are in home peritoneal and hemodialysis.
Supervisors: Shiphra Ginsburg and Maria Mylopoulos