Zevin

Boris Zevin

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OPDES Health Sciences Education Scholar

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Dr. Boris Zevin is an Associate Professor of Surgery with Tenure and SEAMO Medical Education Scholar within the Department of Surgery at Queen’s University. He is also cross-appointed to the Faculty of Education at Queen’s University.

Dr. Zevin graduated with his Doctor of Medicine Degree in 2008, and went on to complete his General Surgery residency training in 2015 from the University of Toronto. During his residency, he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy Degree from the Institute of Medical Science (University of Toronto) with a focus on Medical and Surgical Education. His thesis specifically explored the use of simulation for training and assessment of minimally invasive surgery skills.

Dr. Zevin completed a clinical fellowship at The Ohio State University specializing in Advanced Minimally Invasive Upper GI / Bariatric Surgery and Endoscopy in 2016. His area of surgical expertise is minimally invasive bariatric surgery and surgery for benign disorders of stomach and esophagus (gastroesophageal reflux disease, hiatus and paraesophageal hernia).

As a Medical Education Scholar, Dr. Zevin has three main areas of focus in his research program: (1) quantitative computational analysis of procedural skills within competency-based medical education (CBME); (2) design, implementation, evaluation and comparison of educational interventions along the continuum of health professions education; and (3) assessing and improving the quality of feedback within CBME.

Dr. Zevin is the recipient of the 2024 Highest Ranked Speaking Award (General Surgery Review Program), 2024 Living Our Values Award (Postgraduate Medical Education, Queen’s University), 2024 CAME Certificate of Merit Award, 2023 Ron Wigle Mentorship Award (Queen’s Health Sciences, Queen’s University), 2023 Medical Education Development Program Award (Southeastern Ontario Academic Medical Association), 2021 Early Career Faculty Researcher Award (Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons), and 2020 Faculty Teaching Award (Department of Surgery, Queen’s University).

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