Ontario Student Medical Education Research Conference (OSMERC) 2026

Sunday, January 18th, 2026

Toronto, ON

Featuring student research, expert workshops & engaging speakers.

EVENT RECAP

Sunday, January 18th, 2026

Toronto Chestnut Conference Centre

Interested in medical education?

The 2026 Ontario Student Medical Education ResearchConference (OSMERC) will be hosted on Sunday, January 18th, 2026! 

OSMERC was established for students, by students, and aims to provide a platform for research in the areas of medical and health professions education.

If you are involved in medical education research such as assessment and feedback, curriculum design, novel pedagogies, student and practitioner wellbeing, artificial intelligence in healthcare education and practice, we’d love to see your abstract submissions – keep an eye out for further announcements!

Event Highlights

Previous Conferences

  • Best Oral Presentation:

    Aaron Dou and Joy Du (Impact of a national virtual oncology course on medical student knowledge and professional identity development)

     

    Best Poster Presentation:

    Sahaj Puri and Charlotte Armstrong (Highlighting First-Year Medical Students’ Experiences with Research at a Three-Year Medical School: A Survey)

  • Best Oral Presentations:

    1st place: Christina Lim and Matthew Van Oirschot (Exploring the Use of 3D Holographic Animations on Mixed-Reality Headsets to Teach Surgical Knot Tying Skills in Comparison to Current Teaching Modalities)

    2nd place: Chloe Lau (Perfectionism in medical students: Associations with depression, loneliness, and stress)

    3rd place: Christian David Neira Agonh (Assessing the Quality and Accessibility of Online Central Line Tutorials Using a Global Rating Scale)

    Best Poster Presentations:

    1st place: Alexa Moschella (Learning plan use in undergraduate medical education: a scoping review)

    2nd place: Amr Saleh (The Predictive Power of Short Answer Questions in Undergraduate Medical Education Progress Difficulty)

    3rd place: Nima Behravan, Darsh Shah, Nujud Al-Jabouri (Incorporating Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) into the Education and Assessment of Professionalism for Healthcare Professionals and Trainees)

  • Congratulations to all presenters last year at OSMERC 2023 for their fantastic work. A special shout out to our winners and runner-ups for best oral and poster presentations:

    Best Oral Presentation: Gilmar Gutierrez, Isis Lunsky, Olivier Rabu (Developing an Objective Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE) with Individuals with IDD as Simulated Patients for use in Early Medical Education)

    Runner-Up Oral Presentation: Sarah Klapman, Brynna Wilson, Celine Vereecken Smith (The PATIENT Project: A Quality Improvement Initiative to Bring Patient-Centred Care to Case-Based Medical Education)

    Best Poster Presentation: Danielle Solish, Michael Pierce (Slowing Down in Simulation: The Impact of a Forced Pause on Cognitive Load, Performance and Experience)

    Runner-Up Poster Presentation: Eden Meisels, Rachel Goldfarb (Understanding department of family and community medicine resident perspectives on using an experience tracking tool in order to optimize educational value)