Biography
Medical school
- Queen's School of Medicine (2008)
Residency
- Queen's FRCPC Emergency Medicine (2013)
Postgraduate
- Masters of Medical Education - University of Dundee (2016)
Specialty
- DRSCPC - Clinician Educator - Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (2022)
Academic Focus
- Medical Education Leadership
- Medical Education Research
- Simulation
Award Highlights
- Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP) - Terry Sosnowski Memorial Teacher of the Year (2025)
- Professional Association of Residents of Ontario (PARO) - Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award (2024)
- Undergraduate Medicine, University of Ottawa, Professionalism Competency Award in Education (2023)
- Canadian Association of Medical Education (CAME) Certificate of Merit Award (2019)
- Queen's University Department of Emergency Medicine L.E. Dagnone Resident Teaching Award (2016)
Selected Publications
- Hall AK, Oswald A, Frank JR, Dalseg T, Cheung WJ, Cooke L, Gorman L, Brzezina S, Selvaratnam S, Wagner N, Hamstra SJ, Van Melle E. Evaluating Competence by Design as a Large System Change Initiative: Readiness, Fidelity, and Outcomes. Perspect Med Educ. (2024)13(1):95-107.
- Frank JR, Karpinski J, Sherbino J, Snell LS, Atkinson A, Oswald A, Hall AK, Cooke L, Dojeiji S, Richardson D, Cheung WJ, Cavalcanti RB, Dalseg TR, Thoma B, Flynn L, Gofton W, Dudek N, Bhanji F, Wong BM, Razack S, Anderson R, Dubois D, Boucher A, Gomes MM, Taber S, Gorman LJ, Fulford J, Naik V, Harris KA, St Croix R, van Melle E. Competence By Design: a transformational national model of time-variable competency-based postgraduate medical education. Perspect Med Educ. (2024) 13(1):201-223.
- Braund H, Hall AK, Caners K, Walker M, Dagnone JD, Sherbino J, Sibbald M, Wang B, Howes D, Day A, Wu W, Szulewski A. Evaluating the value of eye-tracking augmented debriefing in medical simulation – a pilot randomized controlled trial. Simulation in Healthcare (2025) 20 (3), 158-166.
- Stefanidis D, Cook D, Kalantar M, Muret-Wagstaff SL, Calhoun A, Lauridsen KG, Paige JT, Lockey A, Donoghue AJ, Hall AK, Patocka C, Palaganas J, Gross IT, Kessler D, Vermylen JL, Lin Y, Aeborsold M, Chang T, Duff J, Kolbe M, Rutherford-Hemming T, Decker S, Collings A, Ansari MT. Society for Simulation in Healthcare Guidelines for Simulation Training. Simulation in Healthcare (2024) 19(1S):p S4-S22.
- Szulewski A, Braund H, Dagnone DJ, McEwen L, Dalgarno N, Schultz KW, Hall AK. The Assessment Burden in Competency-Based Medical Education: How Programs Are Adapting. Academic Medicine. (2023) Jun 21:10-97.
- Hall AK, Schumacher DJ, Thoma B, Caretta-Weyer H, Kinnear B, Gruppen L, Cooke LJ, Frank J, Van Melle E. Outcomes of competency-based medical education: A taxonomy for shared language. Medical Teacher (2021) 43(7): 788-793.
- Hall AK, Rich JV, Dagnone D, Weersink K, Caudle J, Sherbino J, Frank JR, Bandiera G, Van Melle E. It’s a marathon, not a sprint: Rapid evaluation of CBME program implementation. Academic Medicine (2020) 95(5) 786-793.
- Hall AK, Nousiainen MT, Campisi P, Dagnone JD, Frank JR, Kroeker KI, Brzezina S, Purdy E, Oswald A. Training disrupted: Practical tips for supporting competency-based medical education during the covid-19 pandemic. Medical Teacher (2020) 42(7):756-761
- Hall AK, Chaplin T, McColl T, Petrosoniak A, Caners K, Rocca N, Denton C, Bhanji F, Woods R. Harnessing the Power of Simulation for Assessment: Consensus Recommendations for the Use of Simulation-Based Assessment in Emergency Medicine. Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine (2020) 22(2) 194-203.
- Hall AK, Hagel C, Chan TM, Thoma BT, Murnaghan A, Bhanji F. The Writer’s Guide to Education Scholarship in Emergency Medicine: Education Innovations (Part 3). Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine (2018) May, 20(3): 463-470.
Personal interests
- Husband and Father of 3 Boys
- Active and Outside: Cyclist, Skier, Hiker
- Bass Player
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Updated - June 2026