J. Jon Veloski
Instructor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Director, Medical Education Research, Jefferson Medical College

Contact Dr. Veloski

1025 Walnut Street
College Building, Room 127
Philadelphia, PA 19107

(215) 955-7901
(215) 923-6939 (fax)

Graduate School
MS, Measurement, Evaluation, and Techniques of Research, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (1976)

University Appointment
Instructor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Director, Medical Education Research, Jefferson Medical College

Research and Clinical Interests
Medical Education; Outcomes Assessment; Psychometrics; Testing; Biostatistics; Statistics; Surveys; Economics; Clinometrics

Publications

1. Equivalence of students' scores on timed and untimed anatomy practical examinations
2. Development and evaluation of a program to strengthen first year residents' proficiency in leading end-of-life discussions
3. Medical students′ self-reported empathy and simulated patients′ assessments of student empathy: An analysis by gender and ethnicity
4. Evaluation of the use of patient-focused simulation for student assessment in a surgery clerkship
5. A comparison of medical students' self-reported empathy with simulated patients' assessments of the students' empathy
6. AM last page. The Jefferson Longitudinal Study of medical education.
7. Rebuttals to critics of studies of the decline of empathy
8. Measuring medical students' orientation toward lifelong learning: A psychometric evaluation
9. The predictive validity of three versions of the mcat in relation to performance in medical school, residency, and licensing examinations: A longitudinal study of 36 classes of jefferson medical college
10. Attitudes of students in medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, and physical therapy toward interprofessional education
11. The devil is in the third year: A longitudinal study of erosion of empathy in medical school
12. Measurement and Correlates of Physicians' Lifelong Learning
13. Effectiveness of "Teaching the Teachers" Initiative for Ultrasound Training in Africa1
14. Short-, intermediate-, and long-term outcomes of Pennsylvania's continuum of tobacco education pilot project
15. Cross-sectional assessment of medical and nursing students' attitudes toward chronic illness at matriculation and graduation.
16. The relationship between performance on a medical school's clinical skills assessment and USMLE Step 2 CS.
17. Validating an Ataxia Functional Composite Scale in spinocerebellar ataxia
18. Evaluation of the congruence between students' postencounter notes and standardized patients' checklists in a clinical skills examination
19. Components of postgraduate competen Analyses of thirty years of longitudinal data
20. Treatment of spinocerebellar ataxia with buspirone

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