Vijay Daniels, MD, MHPE

Area of Study / Keywords

Medical Education OSCE Assessment Validity Reliability Competency-Based Medical Education

About

You can find out more about Dr. Daniels including his CV at: www.drvijaydaniels.ca.

Dr. Daniels is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Alberta. After graduating from the University of Manitoba medical school, he completed his Core Internal Medicine residency and General Internal Medicine subspecialty training at the University of Alberta. He has been on faculty at the University of Alberta since 2009. He also completed the Master of Health Professions Education program at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2013.

Dr. Daniels focuses his non-clinical academic time on his roles as the Assistant Dean, Assessment for the MD Program, and as the Associate Chair, Education and Faculty Development for the Department of Medicine. 

Dr. Daniels is a well-recognized teacher and mentor both in the clinical and non-clinical environment with over 35 awards for teaching and mentoring excellence since 2009 including the University of Alberta’s Rutherford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education and the McCalla Professorship, as well as national recognition from the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada, the Canadian Society of Internal Medicine, and most recently in 2022, the 3M National Teaching Fellowship, Canada's premier award for post-secondary education.