Email

purkiss@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Dean

Educational Evaluation, Assessment, and Research
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas US

Assistant Professor

Department of Education, Innovation, and Technology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States

Education

PhD from University of Michigan

Ann Arbor

Honors & Awards

Token of Appreciation from Medical Students (TAMS) Award

University of Michigan Medical School (04/2012)

Making a Difference Award

Three time recipient: 5/2013, 1/2014, 3/2015

University of Michigan Hospital System

Thomas G. Varbedian Award for Excellence in Service to Students

Student-Granted Award from University of Michigan Medical School, 5/2015

Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Excellence Award for Educational Research

5/2022

Baylor College of Medicine

Professional Statement

For the entirety of my professional career, I have worked in service of higher-education evaluation, assessment, and education research. In my current role, I work collaboratively with colleagues to review and improve the quality of ongoing performance assessments, and develop and implement new assessment processes to meet the emergent needs of an evolving medical education curriculum. My team and I also administer over 200 course and teaching evaluation surveys annually, yielding program evaluation reports for hundreds of pre-clinical and clinical courses and electives, and more than 2,000 pre-clinical and clinical instructors. As a health-professions education researcher, I share authorship of over 35 peer-reviewed medical education publications, and more than 80 peer-reviewed professional conference presentations on medical education topics. Much of my research utilizes medical education program evaluation and performance assessment data. My key areas of scholarly interest include evaluation of curricular innovations, examination of student study strategies and their impact on performance outcomes, learning environment factors including student mistreatment, and inter-professional education.

Selected Publications

• Joel Purkiss, Melissa Plegue, Christina J. Grabowski, Michael H. Kim, Sharad Jain, Mark C. Henderson, Lisa M. Meeks "Examination of Medical College Admission Test Scores and US Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 and Step 2 Clinical Knowledge Scores Among Students With Disabilities." JAMA Netw. Open. 2021 May 21;4(5):e2110914.
• William Huang, Joel Purkiss, Aimee Eden, Nital Appelbaum "Family Medicine Clerkship Directors’ Handling of Student Mistreatment: Results from a CERA Survey." Family Medicine. 2020 May;
• Christine Roth, William Huang, Navdeep Sekhon, Andrew Caruso, Doris Kung, Jocelyn Greely, Joel Purkiss, Nadia Ismail "Teaching Laboratory Stewardship in the Medical Student Core Clerkships: Pathology-Teaches." Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. 2019 Sep;
• Helen Morgan, Joel Purkiss, Annie Porter, Monica Lypson, Sally Santen, Jennifer Christner, Cyril Grum, Maya Hammoud "Student evaluation of faculty physicians: gender differences in teaching evaluations." Journal of Women's Health. 2016 May;