CPE Speaker Series: November 7, 2024

Disruption, interruption, and task loading: how workplace environment impacts clinical decision-making
What is clinical decision-making and how does it occur in real clinical settings? In this presentation, Assistant Professor Maria Louise Gamborg will share her exploration of the social and cognitive aspects of clinical decision-making, and how it is influenced by the clinical work environment. She will also discuss the findings from her ongoing study on the educational and cognitive impact of these environmental factors. Finally, she will examine how these factors are related to pharmaceutical practice.
Speaker: Maria Louise Gamborg, Assistant Professor, Aarhus University
Maria Louise Gamborg is a clinical psychologist, with training in geriatric psychiatry. She holds a PhD from Aarhus University in Denmark, where she explored how young doctors make decisions on geriatric patients within the workplace. Since 2022, she has been employed as an Assistant professor at Aarhus University, where her research focus on translating the findings from her PhD to applied workplace-based training, specifically simulation-based training.
Discussant: Naomi Steenhof
Naomi’s area of clinical expertise is in chronic pain and geriatrics. She practices with an interdisciplinary team in the Comprehensive Integrated Pain Program (CIPP) at the University Health Network. Her focus is on medication management, tapering opioid medications and the use of buprenorphine-naloxone therapy for patients with chronic pain. Naomi’s research focuses on exploring the crucial role of struggle in learning and understanding how it assists novices in acquiring the conceptual knowledge they need to learn in the future.