Interested in medical education? The 2025 Ontario Student Medical Education Research
Conference (OSMERC) will be hosted on January 19th, 2025! 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!
Link to Submission: https://forms.gle/mf1BqeNPb6ygdxJT7
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)
Yes, you can present as long as you have contributed to the project and received approval from your supervisor.
Absolutely! Group presentations are allowed.
Yes, works in progress are welcome for submission and presentation.
Yes, multiple abstract submissions are permitted.
Yes, OMSA members are eligible to present.
Please email us at osmerc@omsa.ca for any additional inquiries or to discuss conflicts of interest.
OSMERC Co-Chair
OSMERC Co-Chair
VP Education
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