Dr. Ginsburg’s primary research program is focused on understanding and evaluating professionalism in medical education using qualitative methods (grounded theory) and mixed methods research. This work is continuing and extending into the practicing clinician domain. A second line of research involves understanding how clinical supervisors conceptualize and evaluate the clinical competence of their learners, again using mixed methods. Other research interests and areas of collaboration include the development of professional development and identity formation and education scholarship. Dr. Ginsburg participates in professionalism initiatives at the local, national and international levels, and serves as Deputy Editor at the journal Medical Education, and as a Fellow on the Editorial Board of Academic Medicine. She is the current Kimball Scholar at the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Ginsburg serves as Director of the Eliot Phillipson Clinician-Educator Training Program in the Department of Medicine and is Co-Director of the Centre for Faculty Development’s new certificate course “CoFER” (Core Foundations in Education Research). In her roles for the department, Dr. Ginsburg enjoys mentoring other faculty members in the development of their own research and scholarship.