OMERAD Research

We utilize various qualitative and quantitative research methodologies to investigate teaching and learning topics in medical education. We disseminate our research scholarship through publications and presentations to influence medical education globally.

 

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2025

2024

  • Beatrice L., Chang, C.,Chun, J., Lee, G., Niemiec, R., & Umucu, E. (2024). Character strengths and employment in persons with disabilities: A national Survey Study. The Journal of Positive Psychology. [5-year Impact Factor 2023: 4.6] 
  • Blalock AE, Tluczek M, Pylman S. Authors’ Response to “The Growing Divide Between Teaching Empathy and Being Empathetic.” Family Medicine. 2024. doi: 10.22454/FamMed.2024.999682
  • Blalock AE, Tluczek M, Pylman S. Using the Skill of Noticing to Support Empathy for Third-Year Medical Students in Family Medicine. Family Medicine. 2024;56(2):120-125. http://doi.org/10.22454/FamMed.2024.190695.  
  • Ghiasi, M. †#, Chang, C., Shafrir, A. L., Vitonis, A. F., Sasamoto, N., Vazquez, A. I., DiVasta, A. D., Upson, K., Sieberg, C. B., Terry, K. L., Holzman, C. B., Missmer, S. A. (2024). Subgroups of pelvic pain are differentially associated with endometriosis and inflammatory comorbidities: a latent class analysis.  PAIN, accepted for publication December 2023. [Impact factor 2022: 7.4]
  • Jaki, T., Chang, C., Kuhlemeier, A., & Van Horn, L. (2024). Predicting individual treatment effects: Challenges and opportunities for machine learning and artificial intelligence. KI - Künstliche Intelligenz. Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.[German Journal of Artificial Intelligence - Organ des Fachbereichs "Künstliche Intelligenz" der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.] [Impact factor 2022: 2.9]
  • Moquin R, Gaynier A, Pylman S, Simpson D, Hurtubise L, Billings H, … Way D. Clarifying the definition of faculty development. Medical Teacher, 2024:1–2. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2024.2421276.
  • Pylman S. Transparent Thinking as Teaching. #MedEdPearls Blog. Harvard Macy Institute. April 2024. https://harvardmacy.org/blog/april-2024-med-ed-pearls.
  • Terhune J, Pylman S, Clarey J. Rethinking Shared Decision-Making: Delivery of Care Options in a Telehealth World. Telemedicine & eHealth. 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2024.0524.
  • Umucu, E., Lee, B., Chang, C., Szymkowiak, D., & Tsai, J. (2024). Geographic and psychosocial correlates of homelessness or unstable housing among U.S. Veterans in the Midwest. American Journal of Community Psychology. [Impact factor 2020: 3.55].
  • Zaluzec, E. K., Kenyon, E., Volk, M., Hayat, H., Powell, K., Loomis, A., Chakravarty, S., Hix, J. ML., Schipper, J., Chang, C., Kiupel, M., Wang, P., Shapiro, E., Sempere, L. F. (2024). Tantalum oxide nanoparticles as versatile and high-resolution X-ray contrast agent for intraductal image-guided ablative procedure in rodent models of breast cancer.npj Imaging, 2(3). [Impact factor 2022: 15.2] https://doi.org/10.1038/s44303-024-00007-5
  • Zetkulic M, Moriarty JP, Amin A, Angus S, Dalal B, Fazio S, Hemmer P, Laird-Fick HS, Muchmore E, Nixon LJ, Olson A, Choe JH. Exploring Competency-Based Medical Education Through the Lens of the UME-GME Transition: A Qualitative Study. Acad Med. 2024 Jan 1;99(1):83-90. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000005449. Epub 2023 Sep 12. PMID: 37699535; PMCID: PMC11809725.

2023

  • Chang, C.(2023). How can educators prepare for the age of infodemiology? Journal of Education Research, 346, 72-85.  https://doi.org/10.53106/168063602023020346005. [In Chinese]
  • Glick, D., Bergin, J., & Chang, C. (Eds.). (2023). Supporting Self-regulated Learning and Student Success in Online Courses. IGI Global, Hershey, Pennsylvania. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-6500-4
  • Greenberg, A. G., Olvet, D., Brenner, J., Chess, A., Schlegel, E., & Ginzburg, S. (2023). Strategies to Support Self-Regulated Learning in Integrated, Learner-Centered Curricula. Medical Teacher. 2023;45(12):1387-94.
  • Keyes, C. W.†, van Holsbeck, B., Kerver, J. M., & Chang, C.*(2023). An Assessment of Knee Flexion in Lateral Knee X-rays. Medical Student Research Journal, https://doi.org/10.15404/msrj/02.2023.239
  • Pylman S, Greenberg A. Did Peyton Miss a Step? Adding “Guided Performance” to Peyton’s Model. Academic Medicine. 2023 Jul 14:10-97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000005326
  • Pylman S, Mavis B. Evaluating the DR-ED Listserv as a Medical Education Networking and Support Tool. Evaluation & the Health Professions. 2023 May. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01632787231179420. 
  • Pylman S. Purposeful Questioning. #MedEdPearls Blog. Harvard Macy Institute. April 2023. https://harvardmacy.org/blog/april-2023-med-ed-pearls.
  • Sousa A, Mavis B, Laird-Fick H, DeMuth R, Gold J, Emery M, Ferenchick G, Paganini A, Colon-Berlingeri M, Arvidson C, Toriello H, Parker C, Malinowski R, Han C, Wagner D. Learning by doing and creation of the shared discovery curriculum. Med Educ Online. 2023 Dec;28(1):2181745. doi: 10.1080/10872981.2023.2181745. PMID: 36840962; PMCID: PMC9970209.
  • Zhou, G., Fichorova, R. N., Holzman, C., Chen, B., Chang, C., Kasten, E., & Hoffmann, H. M. (2023). Placental circadian lincRNAs and spontaneous preterm birth. Frontiers in Genetics. [Impact factor 2022: 4.274]

2022

  • Blalock, A. E., Smith, M. C., Patterson, B. R., Greenberg, A., Smith, B. R., & Choi, C. (2022). “I might not fit that doctor image”: Ideal worker norms and women medical students. Medical education, 56(3), 339-348.
  • Chang, C., Parker, C., Malinowski, R., Laird-Fick, H., & Gold, J. (2022). Evaluation of the peer comments for small group discussion in curriculum with virtual and in-person settings using latent space social network models. Academic Medicine, 97(11s):p S159. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000004822[Impact factor 2021: 6.893]
  • Chang, C.,Colón-Berlingeri, M., & Mavis, B. (2022). In Reply to Yates. Academic Medicine, 97(10), 1430–1431. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000004880 [Impact factor 2021: 6.893]
  • Greenberg, A. G., Olvet, D., Brenner, J., Chess, A., Schlegel, E., & Ginzburg, S. (2022). Transition to Medical School: Use of Learning Strategies to Support Self-Regulated Learning in Integrated, Learner-Centered Curricula. RIME abstract. Academic Medicine, 97(11S), S180.
  • Kim, Y., Jeon, S., Chang, C., & Chung, W. (2022) glca: An R Package for Multiple-Group Latent Class Analysis. Applied Psychological Measurement. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01466216221084197[Impact factor 2017: 0.923]
  • Kuhlemeier, A., Jaki, T., Jimenez, E. Y., Kong, A. S., Gill, H., Chang, C., Resnicow, K., Wilson, D. K., & Van Horn, M. L. (2022). Individual differences in the effects of the ACTION-PAC intervention: an application of personalized medicine in the prevention and treatment of obesity. Journal of Behavioral Medicine.Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-021-00274-2. [Impact factor 2016: 2.5]  
  • Laird-Fick HS, DeMuth R, Gold J, Ferenchick G, Mavis B, Lipscomb W, Wagner D. An Exemplar Milestone Framework for Scaffolding a Competency-Based Medical School Curriculum. Med Sci Educ. 2022 Apr 30;32(3):611-614. doi: 10.1007/s40670-022-01558-1. PMID: 35531348; PMCID: PMC9055212. 
  • Pylman S, Guenther A, Greenberg A, Stanulis RN. Community, coaching, and action research: Promoting ambitious teaching in medical education. Medical Science Educator, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40670-022-01603-z
  • Pylman S, Emery M. Student perceptions of effective simulation instructor teaching. Simulation in Healthcare. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1097/sih.0000000000000640
  • Wang L, Laird-Fick H, Parker C, Liao Z, Solomon D. Growth in basic science knowledge in first-year medical school and USMLE Step 1 results: a longitudinal investigation at one school. Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract. 2022 Aug;27(3):605-619. doi: 10.1007/s10459-022-10104-y. Epub 2022 Mar 7. PMID: 35254547.