Eleftherios Soleas

Eleftherios Soleas
Queen's University | QueensU · Faculty of Education and Faculty of Health Sciences

PhD., M.Ed., B.Sc. (Honours Biology) B.Ed., OCT

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Introduction
Eleftherios (Terry) is an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Education and an Education Researcher and Consultant in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen's University. Terry's main interests are motivation across contexts, innovative and problem-solving behaviour among learners, and driving interprofessional continuing professional development.

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Publications (65)
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Purpose This study explores the partnership experiences of patient and health care professional (HCP) subject matter experts (SMEs) in cocreating educational content and examines their reflections on how to better support educational partnerships in future initiatives. Method In this qualitative, exploratory study, semistructured interviews of pat...
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OBJECTIVE To describe a virtual, competency-based skin and wound care (SWC) skills training model. The ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) Ontario SWC pivoted from an in-person boot camp to a virtual format because of the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS An outcome-based program evaluation was conducted. Participants first watched guided...
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Despite advancements in human research ethics and the growing significance of Research Ethics Board (REB) members, educational opportunities specifically tailored to their needs remain lacking in many countries. In response to this gap, our research aims to understand the demographics, needs, and preferences for educational opportunities of REB mem...
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As faculty developers enter the field and grow in their roles, how do they keep up with ongoing changes and ensure that their knowledge remains relevant and up-to-date? In contrast to most of the studies which focused on the needs of faculty members, we focus on the needs of those who fulfill the needs of others. We highlight the knowledge gap and...
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Background All Canadian Residency Matching Service (CaRMS) R1 interviews were conducted virtually for the first time in 2021. We explored the facilitators, barriers, and implications of the virtual interview process for the CaRMS R1 match and provide recommendations for improvement. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional survey study of CaRMS R1 r...
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Background All Canadian Residency Matching Service (CaRMS) R1 interviews were conducted virtually for the first time in 2021. We explored the facilitators, barriers, and implications of the virtual interview process for the CaRMS R1 match and provide recommendations for improvement. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional survey study of CaRMS R1 r...
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It is more important than ever to acknowledge potential implicit bias and to examine regular occurrences for how they contribute to the infiltration of bias into educational processes and decision-making. We are at a precipitous moment in medical education, where we can decide to reduce one continuous trickle of bias into the medical profession—int...
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Given that society depends on a steady supply of innovators to overcome challenges, innovation education efforts must be amplified to promote innovation skills among students. A key aspect of promoting innovation in context is understanding how and why innovators are motivated to innovate. However, even in the limited emerging literature on motivat...
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Introduction: There are guidelines for referral to medical and/or surgical weight loss interventions (MSWLI) in Ontario; however, only about one-third of eligible patients in our region are being referred for consideration of MSWLI. Methods: A planning committee, including a registered dietician, psychiatrist, endocrinologist, bariatric surgeon,...
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Purpose: Due to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, all Canadian Resident Matching Service interviews for internal medicine subspecialty programs were conducted virtually for the first time. This study explored the perceptions and experiences of internal medicine residents, subspecialty medicine program directors, and interviewers during virtual...
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Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of the Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes Ontario Skin and Wound Care project, a virtual team-based endeavor designed to improve the care of patients with chronic wounds. Methods: The study team conducted phone interviews with healthcare professionals (n = 8) regarding their patients (n = 10). Th...
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The Role of Leaders in Ensuring Student Thriving Institutions of higher education foster tomorrow's generation of leaders, innovators, and creative thinkers. Attending to students' well-being, which encompasses all aspects of positive being and functioning, is not a responsibility that institutions merely choose to take on, but rather is "the funda...
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Teacher https://books.google.ca/books/about/ The_Research_Informed_Teaching_Revolutio.html? id=UryxzgEACAAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y The full-book has many other interesting chapters A Series of Decreasingly Frequent Failures: Integrating Research into Your Teaching Practice Eleftherios Soleas Eleftherios Soleas is a biology, history,...
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Introduction: Finding efficient ways to meet the growing demand for library systematic review support is imperative for facilitating the production of high-quality research. The objectives of this study were threefold: 1) to ascertain the systematic review support provided by health sciences libraries at Ontario medical schools and their affiliated...
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The current wellness crisis among graduate students calls on institutions of higher education to act and advocate for student thriving. While existing research on human thriving provides insight into how this experience of positive functioning can be understood across the lifespan, what it means to thrive within graduate programs—and by extension,...
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The environments where innovation occurs are often as varied as the areas of endeavors that aspiring innovators could pursue. This systematic review followed the guidelines of the Campbell Collaboration and PRISMA to consolidate the findings of 74 studies into the Expectancy-Value-Cost motivation theoretical framework as a means of usefully isolati...
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Readers’ choice programs have the potential to spark a lifelong love of reading. However, the motivation for student participation in these programs and their impact on student reading are understudied. This mixed method study combines interviews and questionnaires to illustrate the factors at play in a large Canadian readers’ choice program, the F...
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Academic presentations in health professions continuing professional development (CPD) often begin with a declaration of real or potential conflicts utilizing a three-slide template or a similar standardized display. These declarations are required in some constituencies. The three-slide template and similar protocols exist to assure learners that...
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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has imposed travel restrictions and physical distancing policies that make conducting traditional in-person interviews logistically difficult and potentially unsafe. As such, all Canadian Residency Matching Service (CaRMS) interviews for medicine subspecialty programswill be conducted in a virtual fo...
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Past innovation research has focused on business contexts and prodigy, leaving the insights of today's successful innovators in a range of fields overlooked in their utility to inform the education of our next generation of innovators. This mixed method study combined surveys (n = 500) and interviews (n = 30) of Canadian innovators to identify moti...
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The mindset and motivation that teachers demonstrate are likely to influence their students’ mindset and motivation. While mindset and motivation of in-service teachers have been investigated thoroughly, the same cannot be said of pre-service teachers. Pre-service teachers’ mindset and motivation are likely developed during in-class experiences or...
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The first steps that new teachers take in their classrooms lead them down a path that presents many challenges, and these challenges are the reason that beginning teachers are a vulnerable population in the context of educational practitioners. This autoethnography examines two new teachers as they transition from their teacher education programs t...
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Abstract Innovation is a topic of intense interest and is seen as key to confronting the vast majority of issues facing humanity. To consolidate the knowledge about approaches promoting innovation, this study conducted a systematic review integrating an all-database (n = 375) search through EBSCOhost completed on April 6th, 2019 in addition to sear...
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There has been a surge in recent literature recognizing the importance of discovering the motivations of innovators as a means of promoting this necessary source of renewal. At present, however, this wave has not yet yielded an instrument that assesses the supporting and hindering motivational dynamics underpinning innovation at the levels of indiv...
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A key aspect of promoting innovation in schools is understanding how and why innovators are motivated to innovate. However, even in the emerging literature on motivating innovation, there is a paucity of information on established innovators' motivations for innovating. This primarily qualitative study addresses this knowledge gap by investigating...
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Interest in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is driven in part by the need to provide systematic academic development for faculty anchored in evidence-based practice such as the introduction of quality assurance frameworks. This article reports on a mixed-method evaluation of one institution’s grassroots multidisciplinary faculty dev...
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This multi-manuscript dissertation integrated a systematic literature review, interviews, and a developed survey instrument to investigate the expectancies, values, and costs that are involved in motivating current Canadian innovators. Using the Expectancy-Value-Cost framework, the research investigated individual innovators' motivations, but also...
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Current studies in innovation are often siloed to specific disciplines, precluding a generalizable understanding useful to understanding the factors that promote and hinder individual motivation to innovate. This study integrates analysis of 30 interviews and 500 surveys of Canadian innovators from a variety of disciplines as a means of understandi...
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Introduction: Implementing competency-based medical education (CBME) at the institutional level poses many challenges including having to rapidly enable faculty to be facilitators and champions of a new curriculum which utilizes feedback, coaching, and models of programmatic assessment. This study presents the necessary competencies required for A...
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Construct: Competency Based Medical Education (CBME) is designed to use workplace-based assessment (WBA) tools to provide observed assessment and feedback on resident competence. Moreover, WBAs are expected to provide evidence beyond that of more traditional mid- or end-of-rotation assessments [e.g., In Training Evaluation Reports (ITERs)]. In thi...
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The purpose of this mixed methods study is to investigate and understand how the notion of student thriving can be conceptualized and understood within the context of post-secondary graduate studies. While existing research on human thriving provides insight into how the notion can be conceptualized and understood across the lifespan, student thriv...
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Purpose: Radiation treatment planning (RTP) is a unique skill that requires interdisciplinary collaboration among radiation oncologists (ROs), dosimetrists, and medical physicists (MP) to train and assess residents. With the adoption of competency-based medical education (CBME) in Canada, it is essential residency program curricula focuses on deve...
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Interest in Scholarship in Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is driven in part by the need to provide systematic academic development for faculty anchored in evidence-based practice and quality assurance frameworks. This proposal reports on a mixed method evaluation of two iterations of an 8-session interprofessional Educational Research Series to deter...
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Although a highly rewarding and fulfilling endeavour, accrediting Continuing Health Education (CHE) activities generates a significant amount of paperwork. Fulfilling the requirements for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and Faculty Development (FD) accreditation by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) and College...
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As a collaborative union of several offices (CPD/FD/GH/ES) we brought together a diverse array of thinkers and professionals with the common goal of growing into a comprehensive research centre that simultaneously develops immersive professional education. Recognizing that our strength is having different talents housed in individual teams we insti...
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Background: New faculty in medicine undergo extensive training in their residency but receive little training in being an effective teacher. Effective training as a teacher includes quality teaching in the clinical and classroom environments which is a skillset that typically occurs outside the scope of residency training. Therefore, it falls to Fa...
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Following a systematic review of Canadian grey literature of Palliative End of Life Care (PEOLC) and MAiD, these publicly available articles were organized into categories and subsequently smaller categories allowing users to quickly narrow their inquiry to salient documents. For example, a user could choose to look at all the recent cases in the n...
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t is about as fashionable as it has ever been to disagree with objective fact. Being right is to some a matter of opinion rather than a position within reality. Volume seems to drown out reason. This paper is not an indictment of left, centre, or right, but rather a conceptual explanation for what motivates the choice, implicit or explicit, to igno...
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If social media was a person, you'd probably avoid them. Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are loaded with pictures of people going to exotic places, looking like they are about to be on the cover of Vogue, and otherwise living a fairy-tale existence. And, like all fairy tales, these narratives feel a lot like fiction. When you compare the "projected...
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Innovation is not all sunshine and frolicking lambs. Innovation has real costs-monetary, psychological, intellectual and effort-based-that need to be addressed or mitigated if you want people to actually innovate. There's an archetype in media that destruction and upheaval brings out the best ideas and creates jobs. In literature and in society, up...
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Ancient innovators were poets, thinkers, artisans and scientists, not business owners. The classical Greek philosopher Socrates did not become famous for the massive dividends that he provided to his shareholders in the hemlock industry. We remember innovators for their ideas, not their wealth. Why then has innovation been co-opted largely by busin...
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This first phase of a larger study compares academic and popular literature with key stakeholders' conceptualizations of what it means to be a problem solver. Problem solving is a topic of intense interest for a variety of stakeholders who value the ability to problem solve and have vested interests in what the development of problem solvers looks...
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This study examines the expectancies, values, and costs that are involved in motivating current Canadian innovators. While much of the innovation literature is dominated by studies from the business literature, this study adopts an interdisciplinary approach that expands the scope of innovation to reflect a more diverse perspective encompassing rad...
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent to which graduate students within two similar sized programs in education and health studies report self-determination and thriving in their graduate program. This study utilized a two-phase sequential explanatory mixed-methods methodology combining fall and spring questionnaire collection (n=...
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Innovation has many definitions such as generating wealth through ideas in business settings like a new product being brought to market. It can also mean applying creativity in psychology such as a new theoretical perspective for a human issue. Innovation involves applying practical or theoretical knowledge to novel contexts to facilitate discoveri...
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Innovation is a topic of intensive interest in business, education, society, and psychology. However, there is not a unified understanding of what motivates innovation. One model that might shed some light on the motivation to innovate is Zusho, Pintrich, and Coppola’s (2003) skill and will, whereby skill and will together are forecasters of succes...
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In my secondary science teaching experience, students are capable of great ingenuity when given the freedom to self-regulate and create with the topics they are in the process of learning. In both arts and science classroom settings, students design wondrous solutions to real-life challenges by applying their learning collaboratively in a potential...
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Our perceptions of knowledge attainment have changed (Bezemer & Kress, 2010). The type of students our teachers once were is vastly different from the students they currently teach. We need our next generation to thrive in a dynamically, interactive world saturated with opportunities for meaning making (Kress & Selander, 2012). Our current students...
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This article details a sequential explanatory mixed-method study into the perceptions of 44 new teachers regarding inclusive practices from their teacher education program, as well as their relative intent to utilize them in their practice. The purpose of this study was to determine the self-perceived capacity of the next generation of teachers lea...

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