Date/Time
Date(s) - April 17, 2024
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Location
University Club, McMaster University

Join us for the Sibley Lecture with Dr. Chris Watling (Western University)

The John C. Sibley Award presentation and refreshments will immediately follow the lecture in the same room.

Location: University Club, Alumni Memorial Hall, McMaster University

Registration required (livestream option available): https://bit.ly/SibleyMERIT2024

Towards a Coaching Culture in Medical Education

Contemporary formative assessment approaches promise to deliver tailored coaching to learners that enables them to develop as competent professionals.  But doctors can be difficult to coach.  The problem is not that doctors are not coachable, but rather that medicine’s professional culture can be a tricky context in which to expect coaching approaches to thrive.  In this lecture, I will describe the intended function of formative assessment as coaching, explore the challenges of realizing its potential in medical education contexts, and suggest some ways forward.

About Chris Watling, MD, MMEd, PhD, FRCPC

Dr. Chris Watling is Professor in the Departments of Oncology, Clinical Neurological Sciences, and Family Medicine at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University in London, Canada.  He is the Vice Dean (Acting), Education Scholarship and Strategy, the Director of Schulich’s Centre for Education Research and Innovation, and a Faculty Scholar at Western University.  In June 2024, he will begin a new role as CEO of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.  A neurologist by clinical training, he holds a Masters in Medical Education from the University of Dundee and a PhD in Health Professions Education from Maastricht University. His research, widely published in the medical education literature, explores how and why feedback influences learning, and how medicine’s professional culture shapes its educational practices.  He is an avid teacher of academic writing, and is the co-author, with Lorelei Lingard, of a recent book on the subject – Story, Not Study: 30 Brief Lessons to Inspire Health Researchers as Writers (Springer 2021).