Topic: Cognitive Ethnography to Explore the Practice and Development of Adaptive Expertise in Health

Summary/Objectives:

• overview of theoretical framework of adaptive expertise
• overview of cognitive ethnography methodology
• presentation of an evolving research program using cognitive ethnography to explore adaptive expertise in healthcare

Presenter: Dr. Maria Mylopoulos, PhD

Dr. Maria Mylopoulos is a cognitive scientist whose research focuses on understanding the practice and development of expertise in health care. Her research program explores how healthcare professionals solve problems, improve their practice and learn during their everyday activities. The goal of her research program is to evolve our understanding of the cognitive and meta-cognitive processes that underpin these processes as they occur in real-world contexts, using theoretical frameworks of adaptive expertise, knowledge building and distributed cognition.

Moderator: Dr. Katherine Boydell, Senior Scientist - CHES

This event is an accredited group learning activity as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada