John Encandela, PhD

My contributions to education and research during my career have focused on organizing and delivering health-related services for vulnerable populations and training health professionals. With a PhD in Sociology of Medicine, I initially worked on national and international evaluations of HIV/AIDS programs and mental health services. More recently, I've applied my skills to medical education, primarily assisting faculty in assessing trainees and training programs and designing curriculum in health professional education.

At Yale School of Medicine, I am Director of Program Evaluation at the Center for Medical Education, where I also chair the Evaluation and Assessment Hub--a working group that focuses on various aspects of Curriculum/Program Evaluation and Learner Assessment at the medical school. My expertise includes evaluating health professional education curricula; training faculty, staff, and students in feedback methods; improving systems for evaluating faculty teaching ; and consulting on program and curriculum evaluation approaches for scholarly work. In addition to other teaching at YSM, I teach curriculum development and evaluation in the Masters of Health Science/Medical Education program and am director of a Qualitative Research Methods Course, which I also co-teach with two other members. I chair the School of Medicine's Learning Environment Subcommittee of the Education Policy and Curriculum Committee. Additionally, I integrate LGBTQI-health topics into the curriculum and serve on the Dean's Council for LGBTQI Affairs. In select graduate medical education programs, including my academic department, Psychiatry, I gather and analyze qualitative and mixed methods data for internal reviews of training programs.