Publications by authors named "C St-Onge"

Background And Need For Innovation: Teaching and learning approaches can support medical students in developing the research skills necessary to be adept consumers of scientific research. Despite various influencing factors, existing literature on effective strategies in undergraduate medical education remains limited.

Goal Of Innovation: Using a spiraled curriculum, we created and evaluated a longitudinal course to enhance medical students' research abilities.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: Educators now use reported observations when assessing trainees' performance. Unfortunately, they have little information about how to design and implement assessments based on reported observations.

Objective: The purpose of this scoping review was to map the literature on the use of reported observations in judging health professions education (HPE) trainees' performances.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Validity has long held a venerated place in education, leading some authors to refer to it as the "sine qua non" or "cardinal virtue" of assessment. And yet, validity has not held a fixed meaning; rather it has shifted in its definition and scope over time. In this Eye Opener, the authors explore if and how current conceptualizations of validity fit a next era of assessment that prioritizes patient care and learner equity.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Validity as a social imperative foregrounds the social consequences of assessment and highlights the importance of building quality into the assessment development and monitoring processes. is informed by current assessment trends such as programmatic-, longitudinal-, and rater-based assessment, and is one of the conceptualizations of validity currently at play in the Health Professions Education (HPE) literature. This Black Ice is intended to help readers to get a grip on how to embed principles of in the development and quality monitoring of an assessment.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

We recently developed a series of nalfurafine analogs (TK10, TK33, and TK35) that may serve as non-addictive candidate analgesics. These compounds are mixed-action agonists at the kappa and delta opioid receptors (KOR and DOR, respectively) and produce antinociception in a mouse warm-water tail-immersion test while failing to produce typical mu opioid receptor (MOR)-mediated side effects. The warm-water tail-immersion test is an assay of pain-stimulated behavior vulnerable to false-positive analgesic-like effects by drugs that produce motor impairment.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF