Joost van Wijchen
Position
Associate Professor, Learning and Assessment Design, Health Professions Formation
Affiliation
- jovan2626@uib.no
- Phone number
- +4790429663
- Postal address
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P.O. Box 7804NO-5020 BergenNorway
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Joost van Wijchen
Position
Associate Professor, Learning and Assessment Design, Health Professions Formation
Affiliation
Research groups
- Medical Education Research Group (Med.Ed)
- Multidisciplinary research group on Health, Sports and Function
- Climate Health Initiative CHI
Short info
Research
My work explores learning, assessment and professional formation through ecological and relational perspectives. Learning is understood as emerging through interactions between people, knowledge, practices, technology, institutions and environments.
Particular interests include learning and assessment design, professional judgement, and how learning ecologies can create spaces of possibility for participation, development and professional becoming. This also opens towards questions of health and sustainability, and how health professions develop in response to societal and planetary changes.
Outreach
My engagement includes living labs, lectures, workshops, conferences and scholarly conversations across education, professional practice, health and society.
A particular interest lies in creating spaces for dialogue and collaborative inquiry into how knowledge and practices develop, and how health professions can engage with societal, technological and ecological changes.
Teaching
Teaching, coaching and educational development are grounded in an understanding of learning as an active, relational and ecological process. Learning and assessment design involves creating conditions for inquiry, action, collaboration, feedback and reflection, individually and with others.
Professional formation and professional judgement develop through participation in learning ecologies in which people, knowledge, practices, technology and environments interact.
Publications
Academic article
- Ingrid Onarheim Spjeldnæs; Boonekamp, Gwendolijn; Subirón-Valera, Ana Belén et al. (2026). Learning health equity in higher education—results from a European pilot study. (external link)
- Isabel Antón-Solanas; Fernando Urcola-Pardo; Ana B. Subirón-Valera et al. (2025). Sustainable Development Goals as a Framework for Teaching and Learning about Health Equity in European Health and Social Care Study Programmes: A Modified Delphi Approach | Journal of Medical Systems. (external link)
- Michel Landry; Lauren Geddes; Annie Park Moseman et al. (2020). Early Reflection on the Global Impact of COVID19, and Implications for Physiotherapy. (external link)
Conference abstract
- A. Alves Lopes; B. Jocham; C. Grüneberg et al. (2024). DIGITAL HEALTH BIP: A MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL BLENDED INTENSIVE PROGRAM FOR ENHANCING DIGITAL HEALTH COMPETENCIES IN PHYSIOTHERAPY STUDENTS. (external link)
- A. Alves Lopes; J. Casaca Carreira ; D. Costa et al. (2024). BIP in Global Health: A Multi-Institutional Blended Intensive Program for Enhancing Global Health Competencies. (external link)
Conference lecture
- Anique D.B. de Bruin; Fatemeh Janesarvatan; Judith Sieben et al. (2025). De ontwikkeling van een toolbox ter ondersteuning van zelfregulerend leren door middel van coregulatie. (external link)
- Joost Van Wijchen; Niki Stolwijk; Judith Sieben et al. (2025). Kritisk frigjørende læring i helsefaglig utdanning: mellom kompleksitet, usikkerhet og fremvoksende læringsøkologier.. (external link)
- Joost Van Wijchen; Alice Jones; Narasimman Swaminathan et al. (2025). TRANSFORMING CLINICAL EDUCATION IN PHYSIOTHERAPY: CULTIVATING INHERENT AGENCY | World Physiotherapy. (external link)
- Joost Van Wijchen (2022). ROLE OF PHYSICAL THERAPIST IN FUTURE IMPLICATION ON CLIMATE CHANGE (ENVIRONMENT). (external link)
- Joost Van Wijchen (2022). Pedagogy in OMT. (external link)
- Joost Van Wijchen; Linda Thue Lydersen; Erik Laurens Jansen et al. (2023). Education for the future. (external link)
- Joost Van Wijchen; mark Jones; Witness Mudzi et al. (2023). How much is too much?. (external link)
- Annelin Eriksen; Caroline Benedicte Nitter Engen; Joost Van Wijchen (2023). "Evighetsmennesket" – hvilke etiske utfordringer må vi forberede oss på?. (external link)
- Joost Van Wijchen (2023). Future Sustainable Practices. (external link)
- Joost Van Wijchen; Rachael Lowe; Romy Parker et al. (2023). Continues Professional Development. (external link)
- Joost Van Wijchen; Judith Sieben; Sylvia Heeneman et al. (2023). Flexibel leren binnen de kaders van een raamplan: Het kan het, en wat is er voor nodig?. (external link)
- Joost Van Wijchen (2023). Learning, comfortable uncertain, joyful complex. (external link)
- Joost Van Wijchen (2023). Pain Education with patients. (external link)
- Joost Van Wijchen (2023). Oncological Physiotherapy, how to get people interested - Future directions in education. (external link)
- Joost Van Wijchen (2023). Health equity, where to start the conversation in the oncology physiotherapy community?. (external link)
- Joost Van Wijchen (2024). Physiotherapy in Balance- Navigating patient care, professional integrity, and societal well-being. (external link)
- Joost Van Wijchen (2024). Reframing Physiotherapy Education: Joyful Complexity and Comfortable Uncertainty. (external link)
- Djenana Jalovcic; Joost Van Wijchen; Camilla Wikström-Grotell et al. (2023). A Pedagogical Approach for an Equitable Online Learning Ecosystem: Health Equity through Education Project. (external link)
- Joost Van Wijchen (2022). Pedagogisk reise gjennom Deltastrømmen. (external link)