Biography
Medical school
- University of Ottawa (2010)
Residency
- University of Ottawa - Emergency Medicine - FRCPC (2017)
Fellowship / Postgraduate training
- Healthcare Education Scholar, Department of Innovation in Medical Education, University of Ottawa (2017)
- Fellowship in Medical Education, Department of Innovation in Medical Education, University of Ottawa (2018)
- Masters in Medical Education, University of Dundee (2021)
Academic Focus
- Medical Education Research
- Medical Informatics
- AI in Education
Award Highlights
- 2025 - Early-Career Researcher of the Year - Innovation, Education and Medical Humanities - Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa
- 2025 - Ian Stiell Excellence in Emergency Medicine Scholarship Award - Department of Emergency Medicine
Selected Publications
- Dewhirst, S., Cheung, W., Szabo, N., Wood, T., Frank, J. The mean delta method: Quantifying assessor stringency and leniency and identifying outliers in workplace-based assessments. Acad Med. 2025 Jan 1;100(1):12-18. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000005802.
- Dewhirst, S., Wood, T.J., Cheung, W.J., Frank, J.R. Assessing the utility of a novel entrustment-
supervision assessment tool. Medical Education. 2023; 57(10):949-957. - Dewhirst, S., Szabo, N.D., Hall, A.K., Cheung, W.J. Do outlier assessors provide useful narrative assessments? Med Teach. 2025. Online ahead of print. doi:10.1080/0142159X.2025.2596907
- Dewhirst, S., Frank, J.R. Assessor personality traits are not educationally important drivers of assessor stringency/leniency. AEM Educ Train. 2025 Jul; 23;9(4):e70074. doi:10.1002/aet2.70074
- Turk, J., Odorizzi, S., Dewhirst, S. et al. Describing resident physician productivity in a Canadian academic emergency department. CJEM. 2024 Dec; 26(12):890-896. doi: 10.1007/s43678-024-00781-6.
- Singh, S., Cheung, W.J., Dewhirst, S., Wood, T.J., Landreville, J.M. The influence of clinical coaching teams on quality of entrustable professional activity assessments. AEM Education and Training. 2023; 7(3): e10879
- Bhat, C., LaDonna, K., Dewhirst, S., Halman, S., Scowcroft, K., Bhat S., Cheung, W. Unobserved observers: Nurses’ perspectives about sharing feedback on the performance of resident physicians. Academic Medicine. 2022; 97(2): 271-277
Personal interests
- Dancing - have intermittently taken ballroom, latin and argentine tango lessons with my wife over 20 years.
- Aspiring wood-worker
- I love a good math problem
Updated - July 2026