Gisèle Bourgeois-Law, MD, PhD, FRCSC

Scholar

Dr. Gisèle Bourgeois-Law is a CHES Scholar. After graduating from the University of Manitoba, Gisèle obtained her CCFP followed by her FRCSC in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Her practice career was spent as a community-based obstetrician with a strong interest in teaching. Gisèle served for 10 years as the Director of Clinician Assessment Programs at the University of Manitoba, where she was responsible for the assessment and remediation of physicians in difficulty identified by various regulatory authorities. That program evolved over the years to include the assessment of both generalist and specialist IMGs for entry into practice.

Gisèle joined UBC as Associate Dean Professional Development in 2008, a position she held until 2014. She recently defended her PhD in Health Professions Education through Maastricht University, with Glenn Regehr, Pim Teunissen, and Lara Varpio as her supervisors.

Research Interests

  • Remediation as it Applies to Practicing Physicians

Publication Highlights

Bourgeois-Law G. Remediation: The best CPD and vice versa. (Invited Commentary) Med Educ. 2021 Sep;55 (9):989-990.

Farrell L, Buydens S, Bourgeois-Law G, Regehr G. Experiential learning, collaboration and reflection: key ingredients in longitudinal faculty development. Can. Med. Ed. J [Internet]. 2021 Jun 30.

Bourgeois‐Law G, Regehr G, Teunissen PW, Varpio L. Educator, Judge, Public Defender: Conflicting roles for remediators of practicing physicians. Medical Education. 2020 Dec;54 (12):1171-1179.

Bourgeois-Law G, Teunissen P, Varpio, L. and Regehr R. (2019). Attitudes Towards Physicians Requiring Remediation: One-of-us or Not-like-us. Academic Medicine 94(11S), pp. S36-S41.

Laura Farrell, Gisele Bourgeois-Law, Sarah Buydens & Glenn Regehr (2019): Your Goals, My Goals, Our Goals: The Complexity of Co-constructing Goals with Learners in Medical Education. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 2019 Aug 8; 3194; 370-7.

Bourgeois-Law G, Varpio, L., Regehr, G. and Teunissen, P.W., 2019. Education or regulation? Exploring our underlying conceptualisations of remediation for practising physicians. Medical Education 53 (3); 276-284.

Bourgeois-Law G, Teunissen P, Regehr G. (2018). Remediation in practicing physicians: current and alternative conceptualizations. Academic Medicine 93(11); 1638-1644.

Farrell, L., Bourgeois-Law, G., Ajjawi, R., & Regehr, G. (2017). An autoethnographic exploration of the use of goal oriented feedback to enhance brief clinical teaching encounters. Advances in Health Sciences Education 22(1), 91-104.

Farrell, L., Bourgeois-Law, G., Ajjawi, R., & Regehr, G. (2015) Autoethnography: Introducing “I” into medical education research. Medical Education 49 (10): 974-982.

Recent Presentations

“Remediation: Do we know what works?” Presentation to the Assessment and Supervision Special Interest Group of FMRAC (Federation of Medical Regulatory Authorities of Canada), June 2021.

Bourgeois-Law G, Regehr R, Teunissen P, Varpio L. Educator, Judge, Public Defender: Conflicting roles for remediators of practicing physicians. Society for Academic CME. Oral Presentation. Virtual meeting, February 2021.

Bourgeois-Law G, Regehr R, Teunissen P, Varpio L. Who are you? The roles of practice remediators (accepted oral presentation; voice over Powerpoint, re Covid). AAMC, Washington/virtual November 2020.

Bourgeois-Law G, Regehr R, Teunissen P, Varpio L. Who are you?: The roles of practice remediators (oral presentation). Canadian Conference on Medical Education, Vancouver April 2020.

Bourgeois-Law G, Teunissen P, Varpio L, Regehr R. Attitudes Towards Physicians Requiring Remediation: One-of-Us or Not-Like-Us. RIME presentation AAMC, Phoenix, Arizona, November 2019.

“Remediation in Canada: Where Are We and Where Might We Consider Going?” Plenary Speaker National Invitational Symposium on Remediation, Banff, Alberta September 12, 2019.

“Should We Change How we Conceptualize Remediation?” CLEAR (Council on Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation) Regulatory Research Day, Vancouver, BC June 26, 2019.

Reconceptualizing Remediation in Practicing Physicians” Presentation to the SDRME (Society of Directors of Research in Medical Education), Albuquerque, New Mexico June 3, 2019.

Awards

  • Faculty of Medicine Award for Distinguished Service to Continuing Professional Development (2018)
  • Royal College Medical Education Research Grants (2016 and 2020)