This prestigious distinction recognizes an individual or group who demonstrates sustained excellence in Canadian health care and/or health care research. Its recipients are the people who ensure our health care professionals meet the high standards that Canadians enjoy and expect. This award is unique in that its nominees and recipients come from a broad range of health disciplines, such as dentistry, physical therapy, and medical practice.
The award has been renamed after Dr. Maureen Topps, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Medical Council of Canada (MCC) from 2018 to 2023. Throughout her career, Dr. Topps has accumulated a wealth of experience in numerous positions related to the assessment of competence – from roles in program accreditation and her time as a postgraduate dean to extensive committee work, most notably as Chair of the MCC National Assessment Central Coordinating Committee (NAC3) – demonstrating an unwavering commitment in this area.
Nominations may be made by an individual or organization knowledgeable in assessment procedures within the health care professions and faculties of medicine/health sciences in Canada.
A nomination letter must be submitted electronically to [email protected] no later than April 30 of the current year.
In addition, the supporting documents listed below must be either included with the nomination letter or submitted later:
Dr. Christina St-Onge is a professor in the Department of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec. She completed her PhD at Université Laval in measurement and assessment in 2007 and she did her post-doctorate fellowship at the Medical Council of Canada.
Since 2008, Dr. St-Onge has been a scientist at the CPSS – Centre for Health Sciences Education.
Her research program stems from a psychometric perspective, wanting to quantify measurement error and distinguish it from the “true score”, but has evolved to draw outside the traditional psychometric lines when tackling issues of validity. She combines her expertise in psychometrics with a perspective stemming from social sciences to address issues of validity and validation.
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