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Contact Information
1015 Walnut Street
Curtis Building, Suite 319
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107
Adjunct Instructor
RESEARCH & PRACTICE INTERESTS
- Applied statistics, particulary regression modeling, structural equations modeling, and other multivariante statistical methods
- Design and validation of educational and psychological assessments
- Medical certification examinations
- Large-scale educational assessment surveys
- Online survey design, development, and analysis
Education
PhD, Educational Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University
Publications
- Alignment of Fellowship Training with Practice Patterns for Molecular Pathologists: A Report of the Association for Molecular Pathology Training and Education Committee
- Harmonization of training, training program requirements, board certification, and the practice of cytopathology: data from the American Board of Pathology surveys
- Harmonization of Training, Training Requirements, Board Certification, and Practice of Hematopathology
Additional Publications
Dougas AR. The need for a common set of competencies as componenets of a medical profession construct, paried with a common program of assessment. In: Ćurković M, Borovečki A (eds). The Bridge to Bioethics and Medical Practice. Vol. 98. The International Library of Bioethics, Spring Cham. 2022: 35-57.
TEACHING
Fundamentals of Statistics for Research
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Douglas has 19 years of post-graduate experience working as a psychometrician and statistician. He has worked in numerous research and client facing roles in private industry for 11 years. His professional passion is the use of psychometrics and applied statistics for large-scale surveys and medical certification examinations. Dr. Douglas is currently the Director of Medical Education Research, Associate Director of the Jefferson Longitudinal Study, and Senior Psychometrician in the Asano-Gonnella Center for Research in Medical Education & Health Care, at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University. In that role, he conducts research in the field of medical education on the assessment of medical professionalism. He also advises and supports faculty and staff on institutional research and performs statistical analysis and writing sections of manuscriptions for publications. Additionally, he generates numerous reports on academic achievement, and alumni academic characteristics and achievement. Dr. Douglas is also a Lecturer in the Jefferson College of Population Health where he teaches the Fundamentals of Statistics for Research in the Public Health program.