Biography
Timothy J. Wood received his PhD in Cognitive Psychology from McMaster University, followed by a one-year post-doc with the Program for Educational Research and Development (PERD) at McMaster. He spent 12 years with the Medical Council of Canada (MCC) as a manager, where he collaborated on many MCC research and development projects. He has been a professor in DIME since 2011. Dr. Wood’s research interests include improving quality assurance measures for the assessment of learners, developing tools to assess the impact of educational interventions, and improvements in the assessment of clinical skills. Of particular research interest is the role of rater cognition especially around the influence of first impressions in the judgments that raters make.
Dr. Wood is the 2024 recipient of the MCC Dr. Maureen Topps Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Assessment of Clinical Competence and the 2022 recipient of the Canadian Association for Medical Education Ian Hart Award for Distinguished Contribution to Medical Education.
Dr. Wood is a Deputy Editor for Advances in Health Sciences Education, is currently the Director of CiMED's Healthcare Education Scholars Program and serves as a reviewer for a number of journals, grants and research meetings.