Professor
Pirashanthie
Vivekananda-Schmidt
DPhil, C.Psychol, MA(Ed), PFHEA, AFBPsS, Occ.psy
School of Medicine and Population Health
Professor of Medical Education
p.vivekananda-schmidt@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 5363
+44 114 222 5363
The Medical School
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Professor Pirashanthie Vivekananda-Schmidt
The Medical School
School of Medicine and Population Health
The Medical School
Beech Hill Road
Sheffield
S10 2RX
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For enquiries please contact - SMPH-West-Operational@sheffield.ac.uk
I am a Chartered Psychologist with practitioner status in occupational psychology. I am a Principal Fellow of the UK Higher Education Advance, UK and a senior member of staff of the Sheffield Medical Education team. My interests and experiences are summarised below.
- Educational leadership: I have experience in curriculum development in practice through my work in Medical Education. I have held senior leadership roles in Education including oversight for quality and governance within the Faculty of Health.
- Organisational development, managing change and training: developing and assessing professionalism and ethics and law education; human factors and errors in decision making.
- Professionalism and Patient Safety: I lead on the MBChB Professionalism and Patient Safety theme which encompasses developing competencies in ethics and law, developing leadership and teamwork skills, and developing as a reflective and safe practitioner.
- Research interests
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- Developing and validating assessment tools within healthcare education.
- Technology-enhanced learning, especially applying Serious Gaming principles for medical and healthcare training.
- Understanding factors that influence student performance.
- Developing ethical practice including sustainable practice.
- Publications
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Edited books
- Crash Course Medical Ethics and Medical Law. Elsevier.
Journal articles
- Integrating evidence-based medicine into UK general surgical training: a modified Delphi consensus study. BMC Medical Education. View this article in WRRO
- Evidence-based medicine training in general surgery in the United Kingdom: an exploratory snapshot survey study. Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery. View this article in WRRO
- When I say … optimal distinctiveness. Medical Education.
- MTP7.14 Evidence-based medicine training in General Surgery in the UK: A survey study. British Journal of Surgery, 112(Supplement_13).
- Can poetry be used as an educational tool to improve understanding of psychosis?. BJPsych Open, 11(S1), S99-S100. View this article in WRRO
- What do the UK General Medical Council fitness to practice cases tell us about reducing misconduct through trainee development?. Occupational Psychology Outlook, 4(1), 41-49.
- Editorial. Occupational Psychology Outlook, 4(1), 4-5.
- Evidence‐based medicine within surgical practice and training: a scoping review. World Journal of Surgery, 49(4), 916-929. View this article in WRRO
- A Focus Group Discussion Study Exploring General Surgery Trainees’ Views on Evidence-Based Medicine Within Their Training Program in the United Kingdom. Journal of Surgical Education, 82(1), 103348-103348.
- Editorial. Occupational Psychology Outlook, 3(2), 4-5.
- A response to Simpson and Hope's ‘From policy to practice: Measuring success in widening participation’. Medical Education, 58(8), 1012-1012.
- Editorial. Occupational Psychology Outlook, 3(1), 4-5.
- Editorial. Occupational Psychology Outlook, 2(1), 4-5.
- Occupational Psychology Outlook Editorial Board Call. Occupational Psychology Outlook, 2(1), 7-7.
- Revisions to the Standards of Proficiency. Occupational Psychology Outlook, 2(1), 6-6.
- Peer assessment of professionalism attributes. The Clinical Teacher.
- Curricular changes and interim posts during Covid-19 : graduates' perspectives. BMC Medical Education, 22(1).
- Developing good practice by understanding how UK medical schools address low level concerns: a survey study. Education for Primary Care, 33(1), 6-12.
- Medical ethics and law for doctors of tomorrow: the consensus statement restructured and refined for the next decade. Journal of Medical Ethics, 47(9), 648-648.
- Validating an adapted questionnaire to measure belongingness of medical students in clinical settings. Cogent Medicine, 6(1), 1620087-1620087.
- Belongingness and its implications for undergraduate health professions education: a scoping review. Education for Primary Care, 29(5), 268-275. View this article in WRRO
- Introducing quality improvement teaching into general practice undergraduate placements. Education for Primary Care , 29(4), 228-231. View this article in WRRO
- Nursing students' perceptions of a video-based serious game's educational value: A pilot study. Nurse Education Today, 62, 62-68. View this article in WRRO
- Clinicians' perspectives on the duty of candour: Implications for medical ethics education. Clinical Ethics, 12(4), 167-173. View this article in WRRO
- Letter to Editor of Medico-Legal Journal. Medico-Legal Journal, 85(3), 167-167. View this article in WRRO
- Challenges to ethically managing Parkinson disease: an interview study of patient perspectives. Journal of Patient Experience, 4(4), 191-196. View this article in WRRO
- Teaching clinical reasoning and decision-making skills to nursing students: Design, development, and usability evaluation of a serious game. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 94, 39-48. View this article in WRRO
- Developing and implementing a patient safety curriculum.. Clinical Teacher, 13(2), 91-97. View this article in WRRO
- Learning decision making through serious games. The Clinical Teacher, 13(4), 277-282.
- A model of professional self-identity formation in student doctors and dentists: a mixed method study.. BMC Medical Education, 15. View this article in WRRO
- Differing perceptions among ethnic minority and Caucasian medical students which may affect their relative academic performance. Education for Primary Care, 26(1), 11-15.
- Student assistantships: bridging the gap between student and doctor. Advances in Medical Education and Practice, 6, 447-457. View this article in WRRO
- Teaching exchange. Education for Primary Care, 25(5), 281-293.
- Case-based learning: Integrating medical ethics and law into clinical practice. Education for Primary Care, 25(5), 283-287.
- FY1 doctors' ethicolegal challenges in their first year of clinical practice: an interview study.. J Med Ethics, 40(4), 277-281.
- Do assessor comments on a multi-source feedback instrument provide learner-centred feedback?. Med Educ, 47(11), 1080-1088.
- Reflection on developing an undergraduate course: the value of an action research approach.. Educ Prim Care, 22(3), 152-158.
- Student doctors taking responsibility.. Clin Teach, 8(4), 267-271.
- Lessons from medical students' perceptions of learning reflective skills: a multi-institutional study.. Med Teach, 33(10), 846-850.
- A single generic multi-source feedback tool for revalidation of all UK career-grade doctors: does one size fit all?. Med Teach, 33(2), e75-e83.
- The development and evaluation of a Professional Self Identity Questionnaire to measure evolving professional self-identity in health and social care students.. Med Teach, 31(12), e603-e607.
- Exploring the use of videotaped objective structured clinical examination in the assessment of joint examination skills of medical students.. Arthritis Rheum, 57(5), 869-876.
- Validation of MSAT: an instrument to measure medical students' self-assessed confidence in musculoskeletal examination skills.. Med Educ, 41(4), 402-410.
- Cluster randomized controlled trial of the impact of a computer-assisted learning package on the learning of musculoskeletal examination skills by undergraduate medical students.. Arthritis Rheum, 53(5), 764-771.
- Viewing behaviour of spider phobics and non-phobics in the presence of threat and safety stimuli.. Br J Clin Psychol, 43(Pt 3), 235-243.
- Simulated impairment of contrast sensitivity: performance and gaze behavior during locomotion through a built environment.. Optom Vis Sci, 81(11), 844-852.
- RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERCEIVED CONFIDENCE AND ACTUAL PERFORMANCE IN AN OBJECTIVE STRUCTURED CLINICAL EXAMINATION OF SHOULDER AND KNEE JOINT ASSESSMENT. RHEUMATOLOGY, 43, 94-94.
- The evaluation of multimedia learning packages in the education of health professionals: experience of a musculoskeletal examination package.. Nurse Res, 11(3), 43-55.
- NURSE PROFESSIONALS' PERCEPTION OF THE USEFULNESS OF THE COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING PACKAGE (CAL), VIRTUAL RHEUMATOLOGY. RHEUMATOLOGY, 42, 148-148.
- LEARNING RESOURCE UTILISATION BY MEDICAL STUDENTS IN UNDERGRADUATE MUSCULOSKELETAL CURRICULA. RHEUMATOLOGY, 42, 68-68.
- CAN VIDEOTAPED OBJECTIVE STRUCTURED CLINICAL EXAMINATIONS (VOSCE) BE THE ANSWER TO ASSESSING EDUCATIONAL OUTCOME?. RHEUMATOLOGY, 42, 69-69.
- Factors Influencing Feedback in a Problem-Based Learning Curriculum: A Mixed Methods Study in the Context of Saudi Arabian Medical Schools. Health Professions Education, 12(2).
- Sense of belonging: A complementary lens to the ‘labour upon labour’ framework for underrepresented medical student experiences. Medical Teacher, 1-1.
- Effectively supporting widening participation learners in medical education through a capability approach lens. International Journal of Medical Education, 15, 110-112.
- Developing a Serious Game for Nurse Education. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 44(1), 15-19. View this article in WRRO
Book chapters
- Ethics in the Design of Serious Games for Healthcare and Medicine, Human Rights and Ethics (pp. 245-260). IGI Global
- Ethics in the Design of Serious Games for Healthcare and Medicine, Advances in Healthcare Information Systems and Administration (pp. 91-106). IGI Global
Conference proceedings
- SP 4.09 Integrating Evidence-Based Medicine in the General Surgery Curriculum; A Modified Delphi Study. British Journal of Surgery, Vol. 113(Supplement_8)
- How to get published. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY OPEN, Vol. 82 (pp 502-502)
- 28 Developing a teaching aid on dementia diagnosis using conversation analysis. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, Vol. 88(8) (pp A24.2-A24)
- A Serious Game for Teaching Nursing Students Clinical Reasoning and Decision-Making Skills
- Professionalism Symposium 1: Designing Effective Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Professionalism. 12th Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference, 4 February 2015 - 8 February 2015.
- Applying Innovations In Technology To Enrich Learning And Feedback Experiences. 12th Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference, 4 February 2015 - 8 February 2015.
- Developing Situational Judgement Tests (SJTs) to assess professionalism in medical students, 4 February 2015 - 8 February 2015.
- Validation of a perceived confidence log in the examination of the shoulder and knee joints. RHEUMATOLOGY, Vol. 44 (pp I79-I79)
- The computer assisted learning package, Virtual Rheumatology, has a measurable impact on the learning of musculoskeletal examination skills by undergraduate medical students. RHEUMATOLOGY, Vol. 44 (pp I79-I79)
- What influences undergraduate medical students to utilise the computer assisted learning package "Virtual Rheumatology"?. RHEUMATOLOGY, Vol. 44 (pp I78-I78)
- The computer assisted learning package, virtual rheumatology, has a measurable impact on the learning of musculoskeletal examination skills by medical students.. ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM, Vol. 50(9) (pp S273-S273)
- Visual acuity in negotiating the built environment: Eye motion data and speed. CONTEMPORARY ERGONOMICS 2003 (pp 183-188)
- Agreement between medical and non-medical examiners in scoring a musculoskeletal OSCE.. ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM, Vol. 46(9) (pp S209-S209)
Datasets
- Professional Self Identity Questionnaire.
- Multi-Source Feedback Questionnaire.
- Focus Group Discussion Anonymised Transcripts - Raw data from Focus Group Study.
- Survey data for the article entitled 'Evidence-based medicine training in general surgery in the United Kingdom: an exploratory snapshot survey study'.
- Dataset for 'Evidence-Based Medicine Within Surgical Practice and Training: A Scoping Review'.
Preprints
- Integrating Evidence-Based Medicine into UK General Surgical Training: A Modified Delphi Consensus Study, Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
- Curricular changes and interim posts during Covid-19: graduates’ perspectives, Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
- Crash Course Medical Ethics and Medical Law. Elsevier.
- Teaching activities
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- Lead for MBChB "Professionalism and Patient Safety" theme
- Curriculum development in healthcare education
- Application of Medical Ethics and Law, patient safety education, and research ethics and integrity
- The role of human factors in patient safety, including biases in thinking
- Staff development for healthcare educators
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Former trustee and current member of the Education Committee, Institute of Medical Ethics, UK
- External Examiner roles at UK Medical Schools
- Member of the Education and Training Board of the British Psychological Society
- Editor of the Occupational Psychology Outlook (a publication of the Division of Occupational Psychology of the British Psychological Society).