Dr. Jodi Herold graduated from Physiotherapy at McMaster University and went on to complete a MA and PhD in Educational Measurement and Evaluation at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Her graduate studies focused on performance-based assessment of clinical competence. Specifically, under the supervision of Dr. Glenn Regehr, her dissertation investigated the manner in which judges in standard-setting exercises use information about various components or dimensions of competence to make judgments about overall performance. Dr. Herold McIlroy has taught courses on the assessment of clinical competence at OISE and the University of Toronto.
Dr. Herold has worked with a number of faculty and clinician educators to develop and adapt assessment methodologies that evaluate components of competence that are not related to clinical content knowledge and reasoning. In particular, projects have included adaptation of the mini-CEX evaluation format to the construct of professionalism and adaptation of the OSCE format to assess CanMEDS roles including collaborator, manager, advocate and scholar. Most recently, she received a grant from the Medical Council of Canada to develop an evaluation method that employs written profiles of student performance developed to capture multiple dimensions or components of competence. These profiles may prove useful in helping to remove the preconceived notions that raters have about numerical ratings, and in providing more useful feedback to learners about their performance.
Dr. Herold is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine and she has a cross appointment with the Department of Physical Therapy in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. In addition to publishing and presenting in the medical education and measurement domains, she has worked with credentialing and evaluation agencies in numerous health professions on the development, validation and ongoing quality assurance of performance-based assessments of clinical competence.