Career Highlights
Educational Administration / Scholarship
Dr. Daniels spends 50% of his time on Educational administration and innovation / non-traditional scholarship.
Current:
Associate Chair (Education and Faculty Development) for the Department of Medicine
Assistant Dean (Assessment) for the MD Program
Previous positions
Associate Program Director (Assessment) for the Core Internal Medicine
Director of Clinical Assessment for the MD Program
Physical Exam Lead for the MD Program
Postgraduate OSCE Director for the Department of Medicine
Significant Accomplishments:
Streamlined paper-based OSCE practices to reduce time residents received results from 2 months to 1-2 weeks
Co-developed an eOSCE platform with tablet scoring that reduced time to detailed feedback from 1-2 weeks to same day as the OSCE
Revamped the Physical Exam curriculum for the MD Program to better adhere to national standards. The first cohort saw scores on their final year OSCE increase, with the greatest increase for lower-scoring students
Led the development of assessment practices to enable the U of A Core Internal Medicine residency program to launch Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) two years ahead of schedule
Co-developed a local competency-based electronic portfolio that out-performed other national products available and is being used for all U of A programs launching CBME
Research
Though the smallest part of his portfolio (10%), Dr. Daniels has a program of research focused on performance assessment, both Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) and workplace-based assessments. As of July 2020, Dr. Daniels has 20 publications in peer reviewed journals, and over 30 conference presentations.
Dr. Daniels has been involved in numerous grants as the Principal Investigator or Co-investigator with funds awarded totalling $534,631
Awards / Honours
See his CV for full details but Dr. Daniels has won over 30 teaching awards.
His most prestigious awards are:
1) the 3M National Teaching Fellowship, Canada's premier award for post-secondary education. You can also read the UofA Folio piece on him.
2) the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada's Clinical Teacher Award awarded to one clinical teacher across Canada
3) the Canadian Society of Internal Medicine's Medical Education Award recognizing a significant contribution to medical education in Internal Medicine
4) Edmonton's Avenue Magazine's Top 40 Under 40.