Jonathan Sherbino | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation(s) | Emergency, trauma physician, clinician educator, academic, and author |
| Awards | 3M National Teaching Fellow, Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (2021) Teacher of the Year award, Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (2018) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Bachelor of Science Doctor of Medicine Master of Education |
| Alma mater | University of Guelph University of Ottawa University of Toronto |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | McMaster University |
| Website | http://www.jsherbino.com/ |
Jonathan Sherbino is a Canadian emergency &trauma physician,clinician educator,academic,and author. He is a professor in the Department of Medicine and serves as an assistant dean for Health Professions Education Research at McMaster University. [1] He is an affiliate researcher at Karolinska Institutet. [2] He co-hosts The Papers podcast (and previously the Key Literature in Medical Education –KeyLIME –podcast). [3]
Sherbino is most known for his work on clinical reasoning and competency-based medical education. Among his authored works are publications in academic journals, [4] as well as books such as Educational Design:A CanMEDS Guide for the Health Professions [5] and The CanMEDS 2015 Physician Competency Framework. [6] He is the recipient of the 2018 Teacher of the Year award by the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians. [7] In 2021 he was honored as a 3M National Teaching Fellow by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. [8]
Sherbino is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians &Surgeons (Canada) and the Academy of Medical Educators in the United Kingdom. [9]
Sherbino earned a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences from the University of Guelph in 1996,followed by a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Ottawa in 2001. He completed specialty training in emergency medicine at the University of Toronto in 2006. He also achieved a graduate degree in higher education from the University of Toronto in 2005 [1]
Sherbino began his academic career at McMaster University in 2007. He had a concurrent appointment with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada as a senior Clinician Educator from 2006 to 2015. He has been and affiliated with the Karolinska Institutet as a researcher since 2023. [2]
Sherbino is the Assistant Dean of Health Professions Education Research at McMaster University,since 2017. [1] He was the chair of Emergency Medicine,Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada from 2015 to 2020. He is the co-founder of the Area of Focused Competence –Clinician Educator (Royal College).
Since 2009,he has worked as an emergency physician at St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton. [10]
Sherbino's research in medical education has focused on competency-based medical education (CBME), [11] clinical reasoning, [12] and assessment methods. His work in CBME has advocated for shifting medical training from time-based to competency-focused, [13] while refining the CanMEDS framework that describes the abilities of physician practice. [14]
Sherbino has also delved into clinical reasoning,exploring how medical professionals make decisions,emphasizing the role of experience (and knowledge) in diagnostic accuracy and pushing against the call for cognitive debiasing curricula. [15] More recently,he has studied the role of artificial intelligence to improve clinical reasoning. [16]
In assessment,Sherbino's research has emphasized the role of programmatic assessment,including work-based assessment. [17]