
Shapiro Institute Academy of Medical Educators at BIDMC presents: Good Questions, Better Data: Survey Design in Medical
Tue, Nov 10
|Zoom
A well-designed survey can be a powerful tool for understanding learners, evaluating educational interventions, and generating meaningful medical education scholarship.


Time & Location
Nov 10, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Zoom
About the event
Register at: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/w3NbvT2VTbyrMsFcwSLdqA#/registration
A well-designed survey can be a powerful tool for understanding learners, evaluating educational interventions, and generating meaningful medical education scholarship. This practical session will introduce the fundamentals of effective survey design, from defining your research question and selecting appropriate measures to crafting clear questions and response options.
Participants will explore common survey design pitfalls, strategies to improve validity and response rates, and considerations for analyzing and interpreting survey data. The session will also highlight how thoughtful survey design can strengthen educational evaluation, research, and scholarly dissemination.
Participants will leave with practical tools to design surveys that generate clearer, more reliable, and more actionable data for their medical education work.

