Brent Thoma, University of Saskatchewan

Research

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Competency Based Medical Education Learning Analytics Social Media Online Educational Resources Medical Simulation

Latest papers

Assessment burden by design: exploring the variability in competence by design assessment forms
Canadian Medical Education Journal · 2026 · senior author
Leveraging the 4 Disciplines of Execution to Establish Graduate Medical Education at a New Medical School.
Journal of Graduate Medical Education · 2026 · first author
Precision education in the era of AI: promise, pitfalls, and the data divide
Academic Medicine · 2026 · first author

All 93 publications

Latest funding

Feeding our Relationships: Investigating Anishinaabe and Nubian Plant Relationships in the Context of Food Sovereignty, Biocultural Landscapes and Sustainable Development
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$42,420
Joy and pain in observed assessments: Improving workplace- and simulation-based assessments in the age of competency-based medical education
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$38,352
Resuscitation in Motion (RiM) 2018 - From Research to Real World Resuscitation - Dissemination and knowledge exchange for best practice
CIHR · 2017 · Co-investigator
$15,000

All 3 grants and awards

93 publications.

01

Assessment burden by design: exploring the variability in competence by design assessment forms

Ismaeel R, Riggs J, Ott M, Hall AK, Patocka C, Petrosoniak A, Szulewski A, Chan T, Thoma B

Canadian Medical Education Journal20261 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.36834/cmej.81428

02

Leveraging the 4 Disciplines of Execution to Establish Graduate Medical Education at a New Medical School.

Thoma B, Kachynska N, Varughese J, Frisina A, Wooster E, Namrot G, Hussain S, Noor S, Mueller V, Chan TM

Journal of Graduate Medical Education2026First author

DOI: 10.4300/jgme-d-25-00576.1

03

Precision education in the era of AI: promise, pitfalls, and the data divide

Thoma B, Chan TM

Academic Medicine2026First author

DOI: 10.1093/acamed/wvag278

04

The impact of faculty development interventions on supervisor narrative feedback quality in competency-based medical education.

Woods R, Spadafore M, Thoma B, Martin L, Chan T, Bandi V

CJEM2026

DOI: 10.1007/s43678-026-01267-3 PMID: 42782465

05

Has generative AI made our medical exams obsolete?

Lipinski M, Kareemi H, Elder J, Thoma B

CJEM2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s43678-025-01062-6 PMID: 41369890

06

Competence By Design: a transformational national model of time-variable competency-based postgraduate medical education

Frank JR, Karpinski J, Sherbino J, Snell LS, Atkinson A, Oswald A, Hall AK, Cooke L, Dojeiji S, Richardson D

Tijdschrift voor Medisch Onderwijs202482 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.5334/pme.1096 PMID: W4392917340

07

Precision medicine within health professions education: Defining a research agenda for emergency medicine using a foresight and strategy technique (FaST) review

Chan TM, Thoma B, Finnell JT, Gordon BD, Farrell S, Pusic M, Cabrera D, Gisondi MA, Caretta‐Weyer HA, Stave C

AEM Education and Training20248 citations

DOI: 10.1002/aet2.10983

08

Enabling Implementation of Competency Based Medical Education through an Outcomes-Focused Accreditation System.

Dalseg TR, Thoma B, Wycliffe-Jones K, Frank JR, Taber S

Perspectives on medical education2024

DOI: 10.5334/pme.963 PMID: 38343559

09

Sharing Is Caring: Helping Institutions and Health Organizations Leverage Data for Educational Improvement.

Sebok-Syer SS, Smirnova A, Duwell E, George BC, Triola MM, Feddock CA, Chahine S, Rubright JD, Thoma B

Perspectives on medical education2024Senior author

DOI: 10.5334/pme.1081 PMID: 39399408

10

Educator's blueprint: Key considerations for using social media in survey-based medical education research.

Ogle KY, Hill J, Santen SA, Gottlieb M, Artino AR, Thoma B

AEM education and training2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/aet2.11026 PMID: 39324032

Feeding our Relationships: Investigating Anishinaabe and Nubian Plant Relationships in the Context of Food Sovereignty, Biocultural Landscapes and Sustainable Development

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Dowsley, Martha G.M.

Keywords: Food Sovereignty; Biocultural Approaches; Landscapes; Agroecology; Indigenous Knowledge; Sustainable Development; Anishinaabe; Nubia

$42,420

Joy and pain in observed assessments: Improving workplace- and simulation-based assessments in the age of competency-based medical education

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Bilgic, Elif

Keywords: medical education; assessment; qualitative multi-methods

$38,352

Resuscitation in Motion (RiM) 2018 - From Research to Real World Resuscitation - Dissemination and knowledge exchange for best practice

Co-investigatorCIHR2017Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Morrison, Laurie J

Keywords: Citizen And Patient Engagement; Dissemination And Implementation; Health Systems And Service Delivery; Knowledge Exchange; Resuscitation; Training And Mentoring

$15,000

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

Frequent collaborators

Teresa Chan and Jonathan Sherbino: 54 shared papers
Teresa Chan and Brent Thoma: 54 shared papers
Sandra Monteiro and Jonathan Sherbino: 34 shared papers
Sandra Monteiro and Teresa Chan: 25 shared papers
Teresa Chan and Alim Pardhan: 24 shared papers
Teresa Chan and Kerstin de Wit: 24 shared papers
Teresa Chan and Rob Woods: 10 shared papers
Teresa Chan and Calvin Yeh: 9 shared papers
Jonathan Sherbino and Brent Thoma: 7 shared papers
Kerstin de Wit and Calvin Yeh: 6 shared papers
Brent Thoma and Rob Woods: 6 shared papers
Jonathan Sherbino and Kerstin de Wit: 5 shared papers
Alim Pardhan and Brent Thoma: 5 shared papers
Rylan Egan and Adam Szulewski: 5 shared papers
Catherine Patocka and Brent Thoma: 5 shared papers
Brent Thoma and Adam Szulewski: 5 shared papers
Teresa Chan and Catherine Patocka: 4 shared papers
Teresa Chan and Debajyoti Mondal: 4 shared papers
Kerstin de Wit and Brent Thoma: 4 shared papers
Debajyoti Mondal and Brent Thoma: 4 shared papers
Sandra Monteiro and Alim Pardhan: 3 shared papers
Sandra Monteiro and Brent Thoma: 3 shared papers
Teresa Chan and Heather Waters: 3 shared papers
Teresa Chan and Arden Azim: 3 shared papers
Teresa Chan and Kathryn Chan: 3 shared papers
Alim Pardhan and Kathryn Chan: 3 shared papers
Heather Waters and Brent Thoma: 3 shared papers
Kathryn Chan and Brent Thoma: 3 shared papers
Calvin Yeh and Brent Thoma: 3 shared papers
Cheryl Barnabe and Kannin Osei-Tutu: 3 shared papers
Adelle Atkinson and Brent Thoma: 3 shared papers
Sandra Monteiro and Heather Waters: 2 shared papers
Sandra Monteiro and Arden Azim: 2 shared papers
Teresa Chan and Adelle Atkinson: 2 shared papers
Teresa Chan and Puneet Kapur: 2 shared papers
Alim Pardhan and Puneet Kapur: 2 shared papers
Alim Pardhan and Rob Woods: 2 shared papers
Heather Waters and Evelyn Constantin: 2 shared papers
Nancy Fowler and Brent Thoma: 2 shared papers
Kerstin de Wit and Puneet Kapur: 2 shared papers
Cheryl Barnabe and Brent Thoma: 2 shared papers
Rylan Egan and Brent Thoma: 2 shared papers
Evelyn Constantin and Brent Thoma: 2 shared papers
Catherine Patocka and Rob Woods: 2 shared papers
Kannin Osei-Tutu and Brent Thoma: 2 shared papers
Meredith Giuliani and Brent Thoma: 2 shared papers
Denyse Richardson and Brent Thoma: 2 shared papers
Debajyoti Mondal and Rob Woods: 2 shared papers
Brent Thoma and Puneet Kapur: 2 shared papers
Sandra Monteiro and Adam Szulewski: 1 shared paper
Teresa Chan and Nancy Fowler: 1 shared paper
Teresa Chan and Evelyn Constantin: 1 shared paper
Teresa Chan and Meredith Giuliani: 1 shared paper
Teresa Chan and Denyse Richardson: 1 shared paper
Teresa Chan and Damjan Gaco: 1 shared paper
Jonathan Sherbino and Rylan Egan: 1 shared paper
Jonathan Sherbino and Adam Cheng: 1 shared paper
Jonathan Sherbino and Adelle Atkinson: 1 shared paper
Alim Pardhan and Arden Azim: 1 shared paper
Alim Pardhan and Damjan Gaco: 1 shared paper
Heather Waters and Nancy Fowler: 1 shared paper
Heather Waters and Meredith Giuliani: 1 shared paper
Arden Azim and Brent Thoma: 1 shared paper
Nancy Fowler and Denyse Richardson: 1 shared paper
Kerstin de Wit and Damjan Gaco: 1 shared paper
Adam Cheng and Catherine Patocka: 1 shared paper
Adam Cheng and Brent Thoma: 1 shared paper
Brent Thoma and Damjan Gaco: 1 shared paper

Department of Medicine
Department of Family Medicine
Department of Psychology
Department of Computer Science
Department of Paediatrics
Medicine
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1 shared papers, latest 2023

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Competency Based Medical Education Dear Professor Thoma, 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 "Assessment burden by design: exploring the variability in competence by design assessment forms" (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.] 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]