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Mark Albanese received his
Ph.D. in Statistics and Measurement from the University of Iowa in 1981 and
joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty in 1994. In 1998, Dr.
Albanese received the John P. Hubbard award from the National Board of Medical
Examiners for "excellence in the field of evaluation in medicine." Dr. Albanese
was elected, in 1999, to the Executive Committee, Division I: Education in the
Professions, of the American Educational Research Association and in 2005 was
elected a Member of the Research in Medical Education Steering Committee,
Association of American Medical Colleges. Since 2002, he has been a member of
the Research and Education Foundation board of the American Board of Medical
Specialties. Since 2005, he also has been a member of the Special Emphasis
Panel for the study section on health literacy, National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Albanese is Deputy Editor for North America for the journal Medical
Education and Co-editor of Methodologist’s Corner for the journal
Advances in Health Sciences Education. He also serves on the editorial
boards of the journals Biomed Central, Evaluation and the Health
Professions, and Educational Research. He served as President of the
Society of Directors of Research in Medical Education in 1993 and was elected to
two terms on the executive committee of the Society from 1989 to 1994. Professor
Albanese is currently serving his second term on the Stemmler Fund Award
Committee for the National Board of Medical Examiners, a member of the steering
committee of the Best Evidence Medical Education Consortium, an external
reviewer on measurement and statistical issues to the National Cancer Institute
and the U.S. Department of Education and as a reviewer for 20 professional
journals. He is the author or co-author of over 100 articles in peer-reviewed
journals. Professor Albanese has served as a member of the faculty senate, the
University Assessment Council, and the Health Sciences Library Policy Advisory
Committee. In the medical school, Professor Albanese served on the Dean's
Leadership Team, the Academic Affairs Council, and the Educational Policy
Council, and chaired the Ad Hoc Committee to Assess USMLE Step Policies and
Procedures. He also has served on numerous task forces, including: Faculty
Accountability, Medical School Admission, Curriculum Flexibility, and the Use of
Standardized Patients. In the Department, Dr. Albanese has served on and
chaired the Admissions and PhD Qualifier Exam committees. He teaches PHS 800,
Quantitative Methods in Population Health.
Areas of Research Interest:
- Testing and measurement with special interest in scoring
directions, simulations, tailored testing, clinical evaluation, item-response
theory and admissions testing.
- Methods for translating research outcomes into practice.
- Statistical methods for setting thresholds.
- Applications of Continuous Quality Improvement methods
for system management.
- Methods and models for behavior change.
- Patient - physician interaction and its relationship to
treatment outcome.
- Integrating clinical instruction into the basic
sciences.
- Developing rapid feedback mechanisms for clinical
clerkships.
- Inter-rater reliability assessment in clinical trials.
- Effect of response option descriptors on the score
distribution in clinical rating scales.
- Effectiveness and efficiency of computer-based
education.
- Characteristics of effective instruction.
- Effectiveness of problem-based learning.
- Assessing health care outcomes.
Recent Honors and Awards:
2005 Jack L. Maatsch Medical Education Scholar Award recipient from the
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. The Award honors
“nationally recognized leaders and scholars.”
1998 Hubbard Award recipient, "for significant contributions to the pursuit
of excellence in the field of evaluation in medicine."
Representative Publications:
Kokotailo P,
Nicholls G, Albanese M, “A comparison of US and UK Medical educators’ views of
changes in medical education”, International J. of Knowledge, Culture and
Change Management, 2007;6(9):25-32. Electronic (PDF File; 1.978MB)1-07.
Morgan P,
Strand J, Ostbye T, Albanese M, “Missing
in action: care by physician assistants and nurse practitioners in national
health surveys”, Health Services Research, accepted, 12-4-06.
Albanese MA,
“Three Blind Mice--Might Make Good Reviewers”, Medical Education,
(Invited Editorial), 2006;40:828-830.
Albanese M, Dottl S, Mejicano G,
Zakowski L, Seibert C, Van Eyck S, Prucha C, “Distorted Perceptions of
Competence and Incompetence are More Than Regression Effects,” Advances in
Health Sciences Education, 2006;11(3):267-278.
Albanese
MA, “Crafting the reflective lifelong learner: Why, what and how”, Medical
Education, 2006;40(4):288-290.
McDougal JA,
Brooks M, Albanese M, “Achieving National Consensus on Competencies and Outcome
Measures: The Pediatric Pulmonary Centers’ Experience” Evaluation and the
Health Professions, 2005; 28(4): 428-446.
Albanese MA,
Farrell PM, Dottl SL, “Statistical Criteria for Setting Thresholds in Medical
School Admissions” Advances in Health Sciences Education , 2005;10(
2):89 - 103.
Albanese MA,
“Coming to a Medical School Near You: Full Motion Video Medical Education”,
Medical Education, (Invited Editorial), 2005;39:1081-2.
Albanese MA,
Farrell PM, Dottl SL, “A Comparison of Statistical Criteria for Setting
Optimally Discriminating MCAT and GPA Thresholds in Medical School Admissions”
Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 2005;17(2), 149-158.
Albanese MA, “Treading Tactfully
on Tutor Turf: Does PBL Tutor Content Expertise Make a Difference?” Medical
Education, (Invited Editorial), 2004;38(9):918-920.
Albanese MA “Psychological size
and distance: a step towards better defining the human elements critical to
learning” Medical Education, (Invited Editorial), 2004;38(10):1020-1.
Wood J.,
Collins J., Burnside ES., Albanese MA, Propeck PA, Kelcz F, Spilde JM, Schmaltz
LM, “Patient, Faculty and Self-Assessment of Radiology Resident Performance: A
360-degree Method of Measuring Professionalism and Interpersonal/Communication
Skills,” Academic Radiology,
2004; 11:931-939.
Albanese MA,
“Developing Effective, Efficient and Practical Methods of Assessing the
Professional Skills of Physicians in Practice”, Medical Education,
(Invited Editorial) 2004;38(1):4-5.
Selected earlier publications:
McDougal
JA, Lapidus J, Albanese M, Redding G, “Interdisciplinary Leadership Training
Outcomes of Maternal and Child Health-Funded Pediatric Pulmonary Centers”
Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2003; 7(4): 253-60.
Albanese MA, Snow M, Skochelak S, Huggett K,
Farrell PM, “Assessing Personal Qualities in Medical School Admissions,”
Academic Medicine, March 2003; 78 (3): 313-321.
Zakowski LJ, Seibert CS, VanEyck SS, Dottl SK, Albanese MA, Skochelak S, "Can
Specialists and Generalists Teach Clinical Skills to First and Second Year
Medical Students With Equal Effectiveness?" Academic Medicine, 2002; 77
(10): 1030-1033..
Collins J; Dottl SL; Albanese MA, "Teaching Radiology to Medical Students: An
Integrated Approach" Academic Radiology, September 2002, 9:1046-1053.
Albanese MA; Norcini J, "Systematic Reviews: What Are They And Why Should We
Care?" Advances in Health Sciences Education 7:147-151, 2002.
Albanese, MA; Xakellis, G; "Building Collegiality: The Real Value of
Problem-Based Learning (PBL)" Medical Education, December 2001, 35 (12):
1143.
Albanese MA, Dottl S, Nowacek, G, "Office of Research in Medical Education:
Accomplishments and Added Value Contributions" Teaching and Learning in
Medicine, Fall 2001, 13:258-267.
Wolf FM, Shea JA, Albanese MA, "Toward Setting a Research Agenda for
Systematic Reviews of Evidence of the Effects of Medical Education," Teaching
and Learning in Medicine, Winter 2001, 13(1), 54-60.
Albanese, M.A. "Problem-Based Learning: Why Curricula Are Likely to Show
Little Effect on Knowledge and Clinical Skills," Medical Education 2000,
34:729-738.
Albanese, M.A.; "Challenges in Using Rater Judgment in Medical Education,"
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. " August 2000 6 (3) 305-319.
Bonazza, J.; Farrell, P.; Albanese, M.A.; Kindig, D.; "Collaboration and Peer
Review in Medical School Strategic Planning". Academic Medicine, May 2000
75 (5) 490-418.
Albanese, M.A., "The Decline and Fall of Humanism in Medical Education,"
Medical Education, August 2000 34:596-597.
Collins J, Propeck P, Albanese M, "Radiology Resident Performance Reviews, "
Academic Radiology, 2000; 7:350-352.
Albanese, M.A. "Students are not Customers: A New Model for Medical
Education," Academic Medicine, 1999; 74(11), 1172-84.
Lawry, G.; Schuldt, S.; Kreiter, C.; Densen, P.; Albanese, M.A. "Teaching A
Screening Musculoskeletal Examination: A Randomized, Controlled Trial of
Different Instructional Methods," Academic Medicine, 1999; 74(2) 199-201
.
Albanese, M.A.; Prucha, C.; Barnet, J.H. "Labeling Each Response Option and
The Direction of The Positive Options Impacts Student Course Ratings,"
Academic Medicine, 1997; 72(10): S4-S6.
Albanese, M. A.; VanEyck, S.; Huggett, K.; Barnet, J.H. "Academic Performance
of Early Admits to BA/MD Program Compared to Regular Admit Students in Relation
to Applicant Pool Fluctuations," Academic Medicine, 1997; 72(10):S66-S68.
Albanese, M.A.; Prucha, C.; Barnet, J.H.; Gjerde, C. "The Effect of Right or
Left Placement of the Positive Response on Likert-type Scales Used by Medical
Students for Rating Instruction." Academic Medicine, 1997; 72(7):627-630.
Albanese, M.A.; Clarke, W.R.; Adams, H.P.; and Woolson, R.F. "Ensuring
Reliability of Outcome Measures in Multicenter Clinical Trials of Treatments for
Acute Ischemic Stroke," Stroke, 1994; 25:1746-1751.
Albanese, M.A. "Type K and Other Complex Multiple Choice Items: An Analysis
of Research and Item Properties." Educational Measurement: Issues and
Practice, 1993; (Spring)12(1):28-33.
Albanese, M.A. and Mitchell, S.A. "Problem-based Learning: A Review of
Literature on Its Outcomes and Implementation Issues." Academic Medicine, 1993;
68(1):52-81.
Contact Information:
PHS 800: Quantitative Methods in Population Health I
Contact Information:
Mark A. Albanese, Ph.D.
Department of Population Health Sciences
1007C WARF Building.
610 Walnut St
Madison, Wisconsin 53726-2397 USA
Phone: (608) 263-4714
Fax: (608) 263-2820
Email:
maalbane@wisc.edu
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