Biography
Medical school
- University of Toronto (2009)
Residency
- University of Ottawa - RCPSC, Emergency Medicine Residency Program (2014)
- University of Ottawa - DIME Medical Education Research Fellowship (2015)
Academic Focus
- Medical Education Research
- Medical Education Leadership
Award Highlights
- Dr. Ian Stiell Excellence in Emergency Medicine Scholarship Award (2024)
- Early Career Researcher of the Year - Innovation, Education and Medical Humanities Award, University of Ottawa (2022)
- Dr. Ian Stiell Excellence in Emergency Medicine Scholarship Award (2020)
- Top Education Innovation Award, Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (2019)
- Mikhael Award for Medical Education, Resident Doctors of Canada (2019)
Selected Publications
- DeBiasio C, Pageau P, Shefrin A, Woo MY, Cheung WJ (2023). Point-of-Care-Ultrasound in undergraduate medical education: a scoping review of assessment methods. The Ultrasound Journal. 2023; 15:30.
- McColl T, Paterson Q, Yiu S, Velji A, Woods R, Frank J, Magee K, Nath A, Russell M, Thurgur L, Ting DK, Zaver F, Cheung WJ (2023). Ready for practice? National Recommendations for emergency medicine transition to practice curriculum. Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. [Published online June 2023].
- Dewhirst S, Wood TJ, Cheung WJ, Frank JR (2023). Assessing the utility of a novel entrustment-supervision assessment tool. Medical Education. [Published online June 2023].
- Ingratta J, Dudek N, Lacroix L, Cortel-LeBlanc, McConnell M, Cheung WJ (2023). Exploring Gender Influences in the Quality of Workplace-based Assessments. Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. [Published online May 2023].
- Singh S, Cheung WJ, Dewhirst S, Wood TJ, Landreville J (2023). The Influence of Clinical Coaching Teams on Quality of Entrustable Professional Activity Assessments. Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training. 2023;7(3):e10879.
- Paterson QS, Alrimawi H, Sample S, Bouwsema M, Anjum O, Vincent M, Cheung WJ, Hall AK, Woods R, Martin LJ, Chan T (2023). Examining enablers and barriers to entrustable professional activity acquisition using the theoretical domains framework: A qualitative framework analysis study. Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training. 2023; 7(2):e10849.
- Yiu S, Yeung M, Cheung WJ, Frank JR (2022). Stress and conflict from tacit culture forges professional identify in newly graduated independent physicians. Advances in Health Sciences Education. [Published online December 2022].
- Menchetti I, Eagles D, Ghanem D, Leppard J, Fournier K, Cheung WJ (2022). Gender differences in emergency medicine resident assessment: a scoping review. Academic Emergency Medicine Education & Training 2022; 6(5):e10808.
- Thoma B, Paprica PA, Kaul P, Cheung WJ, Hall AK, Affleck E (2023). Data-informed medicine in CanMEDS 2025. Canadian Medical Education Journal. 14(1):54-57.
- Woods RA, Singh S, Thoma B, Patocka C, Cheung WJ, Monteiro S, Chan TM, for the QUAL validation collaborator (2022). Validity evidence for the QuAL (Quality of Assessment for Learning) score: A quality metric for supervisor comments in Competency Based Medical Education. Canadian Medical Education Journal 2022; 13(6):19-35
Personal interests
- Spending time with family
- Keeping up with the latest in mobile technology
- Hiking, ultimate frisbee, volleyball
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Updated - June 2026