Darren Nichols

Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Family Medicine Dept

Contact

Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Family Medicine Dept
Email
dnichols@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 492-9961
Address
5-16 University Terrace
8303 112 St NW
Edmonton AB
T6G 2T4

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

competency-based education faculty development service learning; ethics; leadership; youth develo medical education longitudinal integrated clerkship


About

Dr. Nichols is a serial graduate of the University of Alberta (1996 - BMSc, 2000 - MD, 2002 - CCFP, 2003 - CCFP Emergency Medicine).  His teaching practice is at the University of Alberta Hospital and Stollery Children's Hospital Emergency Departments. He is the Director of the U of A's Integrated Community Clerkship. Dr. Nichols' interest in socially accountable medical education took him to Nepal for 2012-2013 and currently he coordinates international faculty for the Fellowship in Emergency Medicine at the Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal.

CLINICAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS

Medical education: assessment of competence, workplace-based assessment and feedback, longitudinal integrated clerkships

Social accountability in medical education and health care delivery

International emergency medicine

Medical error

Trauma care

Featured Publications

Ross S., Hamza D., Zulla R., Stasiuk S., Nichols D.

Journal of graduate medical education. 2022 February; 14 (1):71-79 10.4300/JGME-D-21-00602.1