Nicole Woods, University of Toronto

Research

Read how they describe their research on their University of Toronto profile.

Childhood Disability Collaborative Practice Communication Critically Reflective Practice Documentation Practices Health Professions Education Integrated Care Mixed Methods

Latest papers

The approaches, theories, models, frameworks, and methods in designing toolkits to support healthcare providers in health behaviour change: A scoping review protocol.
PloS one · 2026
Testing that Makes You Think: Development of a Basic Science Test to Promote Future Clinical Learning.
Medical science educator · 2026
Numeracy Education for Health Care Providers: A Scoping Review.
The Journal of continuing education in the health professions · 2024

All 16 publications

Latest funding

What Enables and Sustains Critically Reflective Practice? Transforming Health Professionals' Written Communication to Improve Integrated Care for Children with Disabilities at School
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
$449,848
Making the Invisible Visible: A Cognitive Ethnography of PSW Knowledge and Practice
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$294,526
Cognitive Effort in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence: Designing Instruction for Adaptive Expertise
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$103,450

All 7 grants and awards

16 publications.

01

The approaches, theories, models, frameworks, and methods in designing toolkits to support healthcare providers in health behaviour change: A scoping review protocol.

Scandiffio J, Sureshkumar A, Feng G, Gaid D, Wasilewski M, Woods N, Donkers S, Simpson R, Munce S

PloS one2026

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0349867 PMID: 42224302

02

Testing that Makes You Think: Development of a Basic Science Test to Promote Future Clinical Learning.

Binks S, Brydges R, Woods N, Coleman J, Jeyabalan V, Kulasegaram K

Medical science educator2026

DOI: 10.1007/s40670-026-02677-9 PMID: 42438546

03

Numeracy Education for Health Care Providers: A Scoping Review.

Goldstein C, Woods N, MacKinnon R, Fazelzad R, Gill B, Giuliani ME, Papadakos T, Wei Q, Papadakos J

The Journal of continuing education in the health professions2024

DOI: 10.1097/ceh.0000000000000504 PMID: 37341576

04

Strategic Planning in Health Professions Education: Scholarship or Management?

Byrne N, Cole DC, Woods N, Kulasegaram K, Martimianakis MA, Richardson L, Whitehead CR

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges2019

DOI: 10.1097/acm.0000000000002852 PMID: 31274524

05

A critical narrative review of transfer of basic science knowledge in health professions education

Castillo J, Park YS, Harris I, Cheung JJH, Sood L, Clark MD, Kulasegaram K, Brydges R, Norman G, Woods N

Medical Education201863 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1111/medu.13519

06

Contexts, concepts and cognition: principles for the transfer of basic science knowledge

Kulasegaram KM, Chaudhary Z, Woods N, Dore K, Neville A, Norman G

Medical Education201749 citations

DOI: 10.1111/medu.13145

07

Faculty and resident perspectives on ambulatory care education: A collective case study of family medicine, psychiatry, and surgery.

Veinot P, Lin W, Woods N, Ng S

Canadian medical education journal2017

PMID: 29098047

08

Validity of a new assessment rubric for a short-answer test of clinical reasoning.

Yeung E, Kulasagarem K, Woods N, Dubrowski A, Hodges B, Carnahan H

BMC medical education2016

DOI: 10.1186/s12909-016-0714-1 PMID: 27461249

09

Thrive or overload? The effect of task complexity on novices' simulation-based learning.

Haji FA, Cheung JJ, Woods N, Regehr G, de Ribaupierre S, Dubrowski A

Medical education2016

DOI: 10.1111/medu.13086 PMID: 27562895

10

Teaching the breast examination using critiques.

Kulasegaram K, Woods N, Knickle K, Wright F, Cil T

The clinical teacher2016

DOI: 10.1111/tct.12368 PMID: 26073725

What Enables and Sustains Critically Reflective Practice? Transforming Health Professionals' Written Communication to Improve Integrated Care for Children with Disabilities at School

Principal investigatorCIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Ng, Stella L; Binns, Amanda; Boyd, Victoria A; Woods, Nicole N

Keywords: Childhood Disability; Collaborative Practice; Communication; Critically Reflective Practice; Documentation Practices; Health Professions Education; Integrated Care; Mixed Methods; School Health; Transformative Education

$449,848

Making the Invisible Visible: A Cognitive Ethnography of PSW Knowledge and Practice

Nominated PICIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Woods, Nicole N; McKay, Sandra M; Mylopoulos, Maria; Ng, Stella L

Keywords: Adaptive Expertise; Care Work; Ethnographic Research; Health Human Resources; Health Systems Transformation; Personal Support Workers

$294,526

Cognitive Effort in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence: Designing Instruction for Adaptive Expertise

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Kawamura, Anne A.

$103,450

Workplace Learning and the Future of Work: Exploring the Cognitive, Practical, and Ethical Dimensions of Incorporating New Information Technologies in Public Sectors

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration

Principal investigators: Rowland, Paula

Keywords: health information systems; sociology of work; sociology of professions; ethics; workplace learning

$57,597

Preparing tomorrow's experts today: An exploration of adaptive expertise and deliberate practice in higher education

Co-investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Mylopoulos, Maria

Keywords: expert development; education; adaptive expertise; deliberate practice; health professions education

$99,724

Design and Validation of a Surgical Skills Assessment Tool for Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass

SupervisorCIHR2011Master's Award: Canada Graduate Scholarships

Principal investigators: Zevin, Boris

Keywords: Assessment Tool; Bariatric Surgery; Delphi; Evaluation; Laparoscopic Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass; Obesity; Surgical Education; Technical Skill

$17,500

Assessment of Laparoscopic Colorectal Skills: Development of reliable and valid tools for training and certification.

SupervisorCIHR2009Master's Award: Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships

Principal investigators: Palter, Vanessa

Keywords: Colorectal Surgery; Delphi; Evaluation; Laparoscopy; Technical Skill

$17,500

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Department of Family and Community Medicine
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Oncology
Medicine
Department of Medicine
Department of Paediatrics
Geriatrics
Other

1 shared papers, latest 2014

Stella Ng

Department of Speech-Language Pathology

1 shared papers, latest 2017

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Paper to mentionMention their CIHR grant from 2025

Subject: Prospective PhD student: Childhood Disability Dear Professor Woods, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "The approaches, theories, models, frameworks, and methods in designing toolkits to support healthcare providers in health behaviour change: A scoping review protocol." (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "What Enables and Sustains Critically Reflective Practice? Transforming Health Professionals' Written Communication to Improve Integrated Care for Children with Disabilities at School" (2025), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]