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The CAME webinar series is designed to bring practical, evidence and experience-based advice to Canadian health educators.

Through these monthly Zoom-based CAME webinars, you can listen to presentations on key topics in health professional education and engage with an expert and colleagues in live discussions.

Registration is now free for CAME members! Recordings of webinars are also available to our members via our new membership portal!

 

Title: Interrogating Entrenched Evaluation Paradigms

Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2025 – This webinar will be delivered in English

Presentation 2: 12:00pm-1:00pm Pacific, (3:00pm-4:00pm Eastern)

Presenter: Dr. Deena Hamza, University of Alberta

Biography:

Dr. Hamza is an innovation and health professions education and practice scientist, specializing in studying the interdependencies between the design, implementation, and evaluation of change in diverse contexts. Her program of research focuses on the development of frameworks that attend to, what she calls, the ecology of change, and how innovations, systems, and people expected to enact the change influence one another.

Webinar Overview

Evaluation practices in medical education have long relied on traditional frameworks that often privilege standardization over contextualization and simplicity over complexity. While these paradigms offer structure and comparability, they can also reinforce biases, perpetuate inequities, and constrain innovation in assessment.

This webinar invites participants to critically examine entrenched evaluation paradigms in health professions education. Together, we will explore the historical and cultural forces that shaped current approaches, analyze their impact on learners and educators, and consider alternative models that better reflect the values of inclusivity, fairness, and authentic assessment. Through reflection and discussion, participants will leave with a deeper understanding of how to navigate and challenge existing evaluation structures in their own contexts.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

  • Describe the dominant paradigms that have shaped evaluation practices in medical and health professions education.
  • Critically analyze the limitations and unintended consequences of entrenched evaluation systems, including issues of bias, equity, and learner experience.
  • Reflect on how entrenched evaluation practices affect their own teaching, learning, or institutional contexts.
  • Identify alternative approaches or innovations that challenge traditional paradigms and align more closely with values such as fairness, inclusivity, and authentic advancement.
  • Develop initial strategies for questioning and re-imagining evaluation practices within their own educational or clinical environments.

PST Session - Interrogating Entrenched Evaluation Paradigms

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  • Tuesday Dec 09 2025, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Online via Zoom Platform
    Canada