Anita Acai - McMaster Experts

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Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University
Assistant Professor (Part-Time), Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, Faculty of Health Sciences
Scientist, McMaster Education Research, Innovation and Theory (MERIT) Program, McMaster University

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COVID-19 (RA)
Curriculum and pedagogy (RA)
Education (RA)
Education assessment and evaluation (RA)
Educational psychology (RA)
Gender (RA)
Health (RA)
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Mental Health (RA)
Psychiatry (including psychotherapy) (RA)
Psychological methodology, psychometrics, design and analysis (RA)
Psychology (RA)
Psychology and cognitive sciences (RA)
Survey methodology and analysis (RA)
Teacher education and professional development of educators (RA)

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books
- Investigating impact in higher education 2018
chapters
- Steps toward building a culture of humanistic teaching and medical practice. 527-554. 2020
- Unlearning hierarchies and striving for relational diversity. 61-72. 2020
journal articles
- Feedback and assessment methods in microsurgery education: A scoping review. Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery. 2025
- Development of an electroconvulsive therapy blended learning curriculum for psychiatry residents. Academic Psychiatry. 49:1-5. 2025
- Academic leadership in nursing: A concept analysis.. Nurse Education Today. 141:106338. 2024
- Shifting paradigms: A collective and structural strategy for addressing healthcare inequity. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 30:887-893. 2024
- Chronicling the transition to competency-based medical education in a small subspeciality program. Journal of graduate medical education. 16:312-317. 2024
- Learner experiences of preceptor self-disclosure of personal illness in medical education. Academic Medicine. 99:296-303. 2023
- The McMaster Narrative Comment Rating Tool: Development and initial validity evidence. Teaching and Learning in Medicine. 37:1-13. 2023
- Evaluation of the online component of a blended learning electroconvulsive therapy curriculum for psychiatry residents to treat depression in older adults. Academic Psychiatry. 48:36-40. 2023
- A qualitative investigation of burnout and well-being among faculty and residents in a Canadian psychiatry department. Academic Psychiatry. 47:159-163. 2023
- The role of groups in assessing learners with specific learning difficulties. Medical Education. 57:498-501. 2023
- Indigenous cultural safety in recognizing and responding to family violence: A systematic scoping review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19:16967-16967. 2022
- Indigenous service provider perspectives of an online education module to support safe clinical encounters about family violence in Canada. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19:16061-16061. 2022
- Perspectives on mental health services for medical students at a Ugandan medical school. BMC Medical Education. 22:734. 2022
- The effect of gender dyads on the quality of narrative assessments of general surgery trainees. American Journal of Surgery. 224:179-184. 2022
- A qualitative description of resident physicians’ understanding of child maltreatment: Impacts, recognition, and response. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19:3319-3319. 2022
- An iterative approach to promoting departmental wellbeing during COVID‐19. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 28:57-62. 2022
- Mind the (gender) gap: Engaging students as partners to promote gender equity in higher education. Teaching in Higher Education. 27:1-21. 2022
- Commentary on Barradell and Bell (2021)-Applying a critical lens to the role of students as partners in health professions education: challenges, risks, and potential. Advances in Health Sciences Education. 28:967-972. 2022
- Patients’ perspectives on the experience of absconding from a psychiatric hospital: A qualitative study. BMC Psychiatry. 21:371. 2021
- Competence committees: The steep climb from concept to implementation. Medical Education. 55:1067-1077. 2021
- Comparing the quality of narrative comments by rotation setting. Journal of Surgical Education. 78:2070-2077. 2021
- LIVES for families psychological first aid training programme to address COVID-19 psychological distress: A mixed methods acceptability and feasibility protocol. BMJ Open. 11:e049995-e049995. 2021
- One Room Schoolhouse: A novel intervention for inspired academic half-day learning in distributed campus settings. Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development. 8:1-9. 2021
- The teacher, the assessor, and the patient protector: A conceptual model describing how context interfaces with the supervisory roles of academic emergency physicians. AEM Education and Training. 5:52-62. 2021
- The role of gender in the decision to pursue a surgical career: A qualitative, interview-based study. Canadian Medical Education Journal. 11:e51-e61. 2020
- Use of the theoretical domains framework and behaviour change wheel to develop a novel intervention to improve the quality of multidisciplinary cancer conference decision-making. BMC Health Services Research. 20:578. 2020
- Individualized pattern recognition for detecting mind wandering from EEG during live lectures. PLoS ONE. 14:e0222276-e0222276. 2019
- Enhancing formative feedback in orthopaedic training: Development and implementation of a competency-based assessment framework. Journal of Surgical Education. 76:1376-1401. 2019
- Attending emergency physicians’ perceptions of a programmatic workplace-based assessment system: The McMaster Modular Assessment Program (McMAP). Teaching and Learning in Medicine. 31:434-444. 2019
- Reflecting gendered experiences of student-staff partnership: A student standpoint using poetic transcription. Teaching in Higher Education. 24:809-818. 2019
- Enhancing outcomes and reducing inhibitors to the engagement of students and staff in learning and teaching partnerships: Implications for academic development. International Journal for Academic Development. 24:246-259. 2019
- Author response to “The road to gender equity in surgery is long”. Canadian Journal of Surgery. 62:E4-E5. 2019
- Toward theories of partnership praxis: An analysis of interpretive framing in literature on students as partners in teaching and learning. Higher Education Research and Development. 38:280-293. 2019
- Measuring school–family conflict and enrichment in university student parents: A measurement validation study. Canadian Journal of Higher Education. 48:98-124. 2018
- The 3M National Teaching Fellowship: A high impact community of practice in higher education. Teaching & Learning Inquiry: The ISSOTL Journal. 6:50-66. 2018
- Getting with the times: A narrative review of the literature on group decision making in virtual environments and implications for promotions committees. Perspectives on Medical Education. 7:147-155. 2018
- A solution to gender inequity in surgery? Better caregiving policies. Canadian Journal of Surgery. 61:6-7. 2018
- Success in student-faculty/staff SoTL partnerships: Motivations, challenges, power, and definitions. Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. 8. 2017
- Reflections on an international “Change Institute” for students as partners: A student perspective. International Journal for Students as Partners. 1. 2017
- Using art for the development of teamwork and communication skills among health professionals: A literature review. Arts and Health. 9:60-72. 2017
- ‘It's not the form; it's the process’: A phenomenological study on the use of creative professional development workshops to improve teamwork and communication skills. Medical Humanities. 42:173-180. 2016
- The mind that wanders: Challenges and potential benefits of mind wandering in education. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology. 2:134-146. 2016
- A comparison of factors related to university students’ learning: College-transfer and direct-entry from high school students. Canadian Journal of Higher Education. 45:168-192. 2015
- Genetic screening: A cautionary tale for the public and a need for greater public education. Health Science Inquiry. 6:27-page 28. 2015
- 2013 3M Student Fellows feature article - Exploring the role of the university student as an experiential learner: Thoughts and reflections from the 2013 cohort of 3M National Student Fellows. Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching. 7:83-83. 2014
- Student use and pedagogical impact of a mobile learning application. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education. 42:121-135. 2014
- Diversifying students-as-partners participants and practices. International Journal for Students as Partners. 5:146-159.
- How can students-as-partners work inform assessment?. International Journal for Students as Partners. 7:218-234.
- Seven guiding principles for building fellowship in SoTL. Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. 15.
- Survey of perspectives on parental leave policies in Canadian surgical training programs. Global Surgical Education - Journal of the Association for Surgical Education. 3:32.