- Overview
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My primary area of research is in medical education and physician wellness, investigating systemic changes and interventions that may affect resident and staff physician wellness and resilience. My research helps support my work as a clinical educator in the Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine. I also conduct clinical research within vulnerable and marginalized populations, including refugee and migrant youth and youth who identify as LGBTQ.
- Publications
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Youth, Caregiver, and Provider Perception of the Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care for Youth with Chronic Diseases
Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics
Vivian W. L. Tsang and Sarah Fletcher and Sara Jassemi and Sharon Smith
DOI: 10.1097/DBP.0000000000001024
05/2022 - Research
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Medical Education and Physician Wellness
I am currently looking at the effect of Balint groups on resident physician sense of self-efficacy and self-regulation, which is a component of the CanMEDS Professional role. This project is currently being expanded to staff physicians as well. I am also supervising a resident quality improvement project looking at increasing the completion of work-based assessments for pediatric resident physicians on CTU.Vulnerable Populations
I am am concluding a qualitative case study investigating the perspectives of homeless refugee youth and staff at a shelter in Toronto on what they feel are contributing factors to the youth's mental health and resilience. I am also supervising a resident research project surveying Canadian pediatricians' perspectives on their comfort level providing care to trans-identified and gender variant youth.Research Group MembersRabiah Dhaliwal, Research Assistant
Vivek Gill, Research Assistant
Ariel Qi, Research Assistant
Priya Rai, Summer Student
Study reveals that sucrose may not reduce the impact of neonatal pain exposure on long-term outcomes
Infants born two to four months early are exposed to mildly painful procedures in the NICU that are essential to monitor their health. As research shows that exposure to daily pain is associated with poorer behavioural and cognitive outcomes later in life, a common pain management strategy is to give those babies sucrose, but a BCCHR study shows evidence that a sugar solution doesn’t reduce these negative effects of pain exposure in the long term.
