Susan Humphrey-Murto

Clinician Investigator, Inflammation and Chronic Disease

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Bio

Dr. Humphrey-Murto completed her MD and Internal Medicine studies at the University of Ottawa followed by Rheumatology training and a Masters in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. As a clinician educator Dr. Humphrey-Murto maintains an active clinical practice at The Arthritis Center in General Rheumatology and at the Women’s Health Center in osteoporosis.

Her research interests involve performance based assessment, the use of non experts in evaluation and teaching and the use of consensus group methods in education research. She has completed a book chapter on the Objective Structured Clinical Examination which is published in the Oxford Textbook of Medical Education.

She presently has several administrative roles including Director of Education Research for the Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa; Director, Department of Innovation in Medical Education (DIME); Director of the uOSSC/DIME Fellowship in Medical Education and is Co-Chair for the Education Research and Development Committee of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Research Goals and Interests

Medical Education; Assessment, Feedback, Non physician Raters
Consensus Group Methods (Delphi, Nominal Group Technique)


Research involves various topics in medical education and research methodology:

1) Performance based assessment; OSCE, mini-CEX
2) Non Physician Raters
3) Feedback
4) Consensus group methods (Delphi and Nominal group)

She has developed a special interest in consensus group techniques (Delphi, Nominal group) used in medical education and has completed  two reviews and a guide. 


Related Research at The Ottawa Hospital