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Medical Education Research and Scholarship
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Scholar Highlight
Meet Christopher Mooney, PhD, MPH, MA
Chris’ education scholarship focuses on evaluating and improving the quality of narrative assessments of learners, and education research methods. In response to the limited reliability and meaningfulness of numerical (e.g. Likert scale) evaluations, there has been a shift in medical education toward improving the quality and usefulness of narrative (free text) evaluations. Chris worked with a team to develop an instrument to evaluate the quality of narrative evaluations, then led studies revealing important factors that correlate with the quality of narrative evaluations. In addition to his own research program, Chris has long been a sought-after collaborator on medical education research. He has chaired the NEGEA Medical Education Scholarship, Research, and Evaluation Committee and directed the AAMC’s Medical Education Research Certificate program, where he teaches quantitative methods. Currently serving as the President-elect of the Society of Directors of Research in Medical Education (SDRME), Chris holds several roles at the University of Rochester School of Medicine including Director of Assessment and Director of the students' Medical Education Pathway. Outside of these pursuits, he is a husband and father of four children—the bulk of which are growing tired of his corny puns and dad jokes. The Mooney family motto is “Well, that escalated quickly.”