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Geoff Norman is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with particular attention to several subfields including Family Practice, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Sociology and Political Science, and Education.

Their work encompasses multiple main topics, most notably Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills, Innovations in Medical Education, Radiology practices and education, Problem and Project Based Learning, Patient Safety and Medication Errors, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, and Health Policy Implementation Science.

Norman has published extensively in various academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Advances in Health Sciences Education
  • Medical Education
  • Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
  • Perspectives on Medical Education
  • Quality of Life Research

Their recent papers cover a range of significant topics and were published in respected journals:

  • Dual process models of clinical reasoning: The central role of knowledge in diagnostic expertise (2024), Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
  • The challenges inherent with anchor-based approaches to the interpretation of important change in clinical outcome assessments (2022), Quality of Life Research
  • The scope of health professions education requires complementary and diverse approaches to knowledge synthesis (2022), Perspectives on Medical Education
  • Where we've come from, where we might go (2020), Advances in Health Sciences Education
  • The Once and Future Myths of Medical Education (2020), Journal of Graduate Medical Education

Norman has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Jonathan Sherbino
  • Sandra Monteiro
  • Matthew Sibbald
  • Thierry Pelaccia
  • Peter Wyer

Best Publications

  • Likert scales, levels of measurement and the "laws" of statistics.

    Geoff Norman

  • Measuring change over time: assessing the usefulness of evaluative instruments.

    Gordon Guyatt;Stephen Walter;Geoff Norman

  • The minimal relationship between simulation fidelity and transfer of learning

    Geoff Norman;Kelly Dore;Lawrence Grierson

  • Non-analytical models of clinical reasoning: the role of experience.

    Geoff Norman;Meredith Young;Lee Brooks

  • How medical students learn spatial anatomy

    Amit X Garg;Geoff Norman;Lawrence Sperotable

  • The GRADE approach is reproducible in assessing the quality of evidence of quantitative evidence syntheses

    Reem A. Mustafa;Nancy Santesso;Jan Brozek;Elie A. Akl;Elie A. Akl

  • Overconfidence in clinical decision making.

    Pat Croskerry;Geoff Norman

  • Expertise in medicine and surgery.

    Geoff Norman;Kevin Eva;Lee Brooks;Stan Hamstra

  • Dual processing and diagnostic errors.

    Geoff Norman

  • RCT = results confounded and trivial: the perils of grand educational experiments.

    Geoff Norman

  • PBL in the undergraduate MD program at McMaster University: three iterations in three decades.

    Alan J Neville;Geoff R Norman

  • Effect of sertraline on the recovery rate of cardiac autonomic function in depressed patients after acute myocardial infarction

    Allan McFarlane;Markad V. Kamath;Ernest L. Fallen;Victoria Malcolm

  • Research in medical education: three decades of progress

    Geoff Norman

  • The September epidemic of asthma hospitalization: School children as disease vectors

    Neil W. Johnston;Sebastian L. Johnston;Geoff R. Norman;Jennifer Dai

  • Teaching basic science to optimize transfer

    Geoff Norman

  • Self-assessment or self deception? A lack of association between nursing students’ self-assessment and performance

    Pamela Baxter;Geoff Norman

  • Evaluating agreement: conducting a reliability study.

    Paul J Karanicolas;Mohit Bhandari;Hans Kreder;Antonio Moroni

  • The clinical significance of quality of life assessments in oncology: a summary for clinicians

    Jeff A. Sloan;Marlene H. Frost;Rick Berzon;Rick Berzon;Amylou Dueck

  • Assessing the quality of published genetic association studies in meta-analyses: the quality of genetic studies (Q-Genie) tool

    Zahra N. Sohani;David Meyre;Russell J. de Souza;Philip G. Joseph

  • Relative effectiveness of high- versus low-fidelity simulation in learning heart sounds.

    Daniela de Giovanni;Trudie Roberts;Geoff Norman

  • Competency-Based Education: Milestones or Millstones1?

    Geoff Norman;John Norcini;Georges Bordage

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Sherbino
Jonathan Sherbino McMaster University
Lee R. Brooks
Lee R. Brooks McMaster University
Remy M. J. P. Rikers
Remy M. J. P. Rikers Utrecht University
Henk G. Schmidt
Henk G. Schmidt Erasmus University Rotterdam
Alan Schwartz
Alan Schwartz University of Illinois at Chicago
Amiram Gafni
Amiram Gafni McMaster University
Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer
Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer Maastricht University
Malcolm R. Sears
Malcolm R. Sears McMaster University
Georges Bordage
Georges Bordage University of Illinois at Chicago
Kevin W. Eva
Kevin W. Eva University of British Columbia

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