Brian Hodges MD PhD FRCPC

brian.hodges@utoronto.ca 

Scientist - The Wilson Centre
Professor - Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
EVP Education and Chief Medical Officer - University Health Network
President - Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

Brian D. Hodges is a psychiatrist, scholar and healthcare leader whose work explores how education, assessment and professional systems shape what people know, what they do and who they become. He is Executive Vice-President Education and Chief Medical Officer at University Health Network and Professor at the University of Toronto. Brian is Past-President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and a Visiting Professor at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. His forthcoming book, Examined: How Tests Shape What We Learn and Who We Are, from McGill-Queen's University Press, explores the history, social effects and future of examination, including the implications of artificial intelligence for how humans are assessed. His previous books include The Question of Competence and Without Compassion There is No Healthcare. His scholarship spans assessment, competence, health-professions education, discourse and the future of the professions.

The authors juxtapose the idea of competence with other highly valued ideas in medical education such as emotion, cognition and teamwork, drawing new insights about their intersections and implications for one another.

Professor Brian Hodges is awarded the 2016 Karolinska Institutet Prize for Research in Medical Education. His research has led to changes in educational practice, both scientific and practical, in the training of health professionals around the world. As an example, simulations and assessment of patients’ mental health and students’ communication skills are now included in medical examinations in many countries.