CASE HPE Grand Rounds: Scholarship as Service: Studying our way through wicked problems in medical education with Tai Lockspeiser, MD, MHPE, FAAP

Session Summary

This session explores how educational scholarship can function as both discovery and service and is crucial to addressing the most pressing challenges in medical education. Drawing on both local and multi-institutional work focused on equity in assessment, we will examine how polarity thinking helps educators move beyond “either–or” debates (growth vs. grades, innovation vs. generalizability, discovery vs. service) and instead study our way through the complexity.

Learning Objectives

Embrace your identity as an educational scholar
Describe how scholarship in medical education can be viewed as a form of service as well as discovery
Apply polarity thinking to navigate tensions inherent in complex educational work.
Explain what makes certain challenges in medical education “wicked” and resistant to simple solutions

Reflect on current evidence around equity in assessment and how we as a community can continue to advocate for improved assessment

Tai Lockspeiser, MD, MHPE, FAAP is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado, School of Medicine, and the Jones Family Endowed Chair of Medical Education. She works clinically as a general pediatrician in the Child Health Clinic where she supervises medical students and residents. She is currently the Associate Dean of Assessment, Evaluation, and Outcomes for the University of Colorado, School of Medicine. In this role, she has led the effort to create a program of assessment and coaching program for the new Trek curriculum launched in the fall of 2021. She regularly contributes to local and national faculty development workshops. She has won numerous local teaching awards from students and residents and was selected to be a member of the University of Colorado’s Academy of Medical Educators.

Dr. Lockspeiser has extensive training and experience in curriculum development, learner assessment, and educational scholarship. Her educational scholarship has focused on learning goals and assessment in medical education and has won several national awards for her educational research. She currently serves on the AAMC Research in Medical Education (RIME) planning committee.

Dr Lockspeiser is a graduate of Stanford University and completed medical school at the University of California, San Francisco. In between her third and fourth year of medical school she completed a year-long fellowship in medical education at UCSF that provided her with a broad exposure to medical education and served as the foundation for a career in medical education. She stayed at UCSF for her pediatric residency and chief residency. To further enhance her educational skills, she completed a Master’s degree in Health Professions Education from the University of Illinois, Chicago. More recently she obtained her leadership coaching certification from Assenter Coaching.

Profile pages:

som.cuanschutz.edu/Profiles/Faculty/Profile/14386

www.academicpeds.org/person/tai-lockspeiser-md-mhpe/

About Health Professions Education Grand Rounds (HPEGR):

At these hour-long sessions, participants hear about recent research in health professions education. Presenters may include advanced learners studying in CFE’s master’s and doctoral programs, UCSF faculty who conduct education research, and invited speakers who contribute outside perspectives to advance the scholarly study of health professions education.

The Master's Program in Education is a collaboration between UCSF and the University of California, Berkeley School of Education. The program prepares individuals in the research methodologies needed to undertake research studies in health professions education. Students receive mentoring from faculty in the UC Berkeley, Berkeley School of Education and faculty in the UCSF Center for Faculty Educators.

UCSF collaborates with University Medical Center Utrecht (UMC Utrecht) to offer the Doctoral Program in Health Professions Education. This collaboration makes possible a rigorous program for scholarly advancement for medical education researchers. Successful candidates graduate with a PhD in Health Professions Education from UMC Utrecht.