The 2024 CPD/CME Resident Research Award recipients have been announced. Miini Teng, first-year Public Health and Preventative Medicine resident, Dr. Jason Zou, fellow in the UBC Division of Infectious Disease, and Anne Nguyen, second-year resident in the Family Medicine program, have been awarded for work in Artificial Intelligence (AI), the microbiome and planetary health.
Each year, UBC CPD offers two awards in medical education to specialty and family medicine residents enrolled in the UBC Faculty of Medicine residency program with an identified research supervisor.
The awards are presented during Resident Doctor’s Appreciation Week, a national opportunity to acknowledge and thank resident physicians for their efforts to improve health-care outcomes in the communities they serve. This recognition showcases a contribution to advance Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in medical education and inspire the next generation of UBC medical students by sharing their knowledge and skills.
Miini Teng, Public Health & Preventive Medicine including Family Medicine resident
Miini Teng is a first-year resident in the Public Health and Preventative Medicine including Family Medicine Program at UBC, exploring ethics and technology in her research project “Enhancing Physicians’ Understanding of Ethical Implications in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use in Clinical Interactions: An Experiential Learning Experience.”
"As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly integrated into health care, it is essential that physicians and medical residents develop the ethical reasoning skills needed to navigate its complexities,” says Miini.
Leveraging experiential learning through an AI-powered chatbot, Miini’s project aims to help clinicians recognize and address ethical challenges in AI-patient interactions.
“It underscores the importance of preparing health-care professionals to engage with AI responsibly while upholding patient-centered care, equity and transparency, privacy/confidentiality, and its environmental impacts,” says Miini.
Dr. Jason Zou, PGY-5 Adult Infectious Diseases fellow
A fellow in the UBC Division of Infectious Diseases, Dr. Jason Zou’s research focuses on evaluating novel teaching modalities in his project, “Microbe Mayhem – An Infectious Diseases Serious Game for Medical Education.”
“It’s an honour to be selected for the Resident Research Award this year,” says Dr. Zou, who has dedicated the award to his mentor and supervisor Dr. Shaqil Peermohamed.
Together with Dr. Peermohamed, they developed an educational infectious disease card game called Microbe Mayhem, aimed at teaching principles of antimicrobial spectrum and stewardship to medical students and residents as an alternative to didactic lectures.
“We are excited to share this with trainees and to study its impact on educational outcomes, with the support of the UBC CPD Resident Research Award,” says Dr. Zou.
Anne Nguyen, Family Medicine resident
Anne Nguyen is a second-year resident in the Family Practice Residency program at UBC. Her research project, “Perspectives on Planetary Health in Family Medicine,” is supervised by Dr. Tamara Cohen.
“This project explores how family physicians in British Columbia are already practicing planetary medicine and what gaps in knowledge prevent them from doing more,” says Anne.
Residents conducting and presenting research as part of graduation requirements are eligible and invited to apply for the chance to receive a $500 honorarium to support educational research projects.
Congratulations to Miini Teng, Dr. Jason Zou and Anne Nguyen for earning the 2024 CPD/CME Educational Research Awards for Residents.
Learn more about our awards and stay up-to-date on ongoing CPD research initiatives.