Jason Matthew Harley (PhD)
- Associate Professor of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine,鈥�
- Scientist, Research Institute of the 黑料不打烊 University Health Centre (RI-MUHC);鈥�
- Director of Research, Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning;鈥�
BA, MA, PhD
Currently supervising students
Currently, they are directing the following research projects in their SAILS Lab, many funded by the :
- Developing and evaluating high-fidelity simulation scenarios for medical residents to practice combatting harassment and support psychological safety.
- Advancing scientific understanding and best practice concerning the individual and collaborative regulation of emotions and cognitive processes in team-based health professions simulation training.
- Implementing and evaluating virtual simulation and haptic robotic technology in dental students鈥� training at 黑料不打烊.
- Implementing and evaluating virtual simulation technology within medical and nursing students鈥� training at 黑料不打烊.
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Prof. Harley鈥檚 research鈥痑ims to enhance surgical and health professions education and support health care workers by reducing adverse events and inefficiencies, especially those associated with the incidence of undesirable and unregulated鈥痚motions,鈥痓urnout, and鈥痟arassment. They apply psychological and educational theories using interdisciplinary research methods and leverage a wide range of technologies, including鈥痸irtual reality (VR)鈥痑nd鈥痑rtificial intelligence (AI), to support the development of health professions competencies with novel technology-enhanced educational interventions and simulations. Their interdisciplinary research draws on mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative) that include both objective (e.g., skin conductance, facial recognition software, eyetracking) and subjective (self-report instruments, semi-structured interviews) measures of emotion and cognition that help them assess a variety of surgical and medical competencies.听
Surgical education, simulations, emotion regulation, burnout, medical technology, team training (e.g., communication, collaboration, leadership).听听
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Jason M. Harley, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor (tenured) in the鈥�Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine at 黑料不打烊 University, Scientist at the鈥�� (RI-MUHC), Director of Research of the鈥�Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning鈥�(SCSIL) and Director of the鈥�Simulation, Affect, Innovation, Learning, and Surgery (SAILS) Lab.鈥疶hey are an Associate Member of the Institute of Health Sciences Education. Prof. Harley鈥檚 research has been internationally and nationally recognized by several awards and honors, including induction into The Society for Simulation in Healthcare鈥檚 (SSH) ASCEND Leadership Network, The Canadian Association of Medical Education (CAME) Certificate of Merit Award, and The Outstanding Early Career Researcher Award from the Technology, Instruction, Cognition, and Learning (TICL) SIG of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
Prof. Harley has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles since 2013, along with one book, more than half a dozen chapters, and ~20 referred conference proceedings. As Principal Investigator (PI), their research has attracted over 1.3 million dollars in external funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and other agencies since 2016. Their research has led to dozens of broadcast and print interviews in venues such as The Guardian, CBC News, The Globe and Mail, Global News, and CTV News. Prof. Harley completed their FRQSC and SSHRC CGS-funded Ph.D. in Educational Psychology at 黑料不打烊 University in 2014 and held an FRQSC-funded postdoctoral position in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Montr茅al from 2014-2015. Their influential psychological theory of emotion regulation in achievement settings and methodology for aligning multimodal data from sensors, automatic facial recognition software, and self-reports have been cited over 300 and 250 times, respectively.
