About
Introduction
Dr. Sílvia Mamede graduated as a physician, specialized in public health and worked for several years in postgraduate education and medical education consulting in Brazil. She obtained her PhD on medical education from the Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2006 and, two years later, moved to the Netherlands for a post doc position at the Erasmus University. Silvia is one of the founding members of iMERR and since 2013 works at ErasmusMC as associate professor. Her research focuses on clinical reasoning and diagnostic error in medicine, the teaching of clinical reasoning, reflection and experiential learning in clinical practice.
Publications
Teaching activities
- Guest lectures in different national (e.g. University Medical Centre Groningen; Utrecht University College Roosevelt) and international (e.g. University of Bern; LMU Munich; Charite Berlin) academic centres and educational programmes.
- Supervision of bachelor, master and PhD students.
Other positions
Editorial board of Health Professions Education.
Scholarships, grants, and awards
Scholarships and awards:
- 2018 – 2020: Guest professor at University of Bern, Inselspital, (grant awarded by the University of Bern international guest professorship programme).
- 2010: Outstanding Research Publication Award of Division I (Education in the Professions) of the American Educational Research Association for the article “Effect of availability bias and reflective reasoning on diagnostic accuracy among internal medicine residents” (Mamede, Van Gog, Van den Berge, Rikers, Van Saase, Van Guldener, & Schmidt; JAMA 2010; 304(11), 1198-1203)
Grants:
- 2023: Community for Learning and Innovation Fellowship: “Deliberate reflection: Applying an evidence-based innovation to the teaching of diagnostic reasoning in medicine and law” (main applicant).
- 2018: ZonMW Program “Kwaliteit van Zorg: Versnellen, verbreden, vernieuwen/Subsidy round: Onderwijs 2018”. Learning from mistakes: Defining case descriptions to improve clinical reasoning education (co-applicant).
- 2016: SSHRC-CRSH (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada). Project: “Comparing and combining two instructional techniques: Impact on learning at different levels of higher education” (co-applicant).
- 2016: National Research Foundation, Singapore. Project: “A Neuroscientific Research Programme on Diagnostic Reasoning in Medicine: A Proof of Concept Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) Study” (co-applicant).
- 2015: ZonMW Program “Kwaliteit van Zorg: Versnellen, verbreden, vernieuwen/Subsidy round: Onderwijs 2015”. Project: “Teaching reflective reasoning through modeling as a strategy to counteract diagnostic mistakes in general practice” (co-project leader).
Research projects
Several ongoing research projects on the nature of clinical reasoning and diagnostic error, especially specific features of clinical knowledge that predicts performance and the role of diagnostic support to prevent errors in reasoning as well as on educational approaches for the teaching of clinical reasoning.
Example:
CLI Fellowship: “Deliberate reflection: Applying an evidence-based innovation to the teaching of diagnostic reasoning in medicine and law”
