Professor

Erasmus University’s

Henk Schmidt is a professor of psychology at Erasmus University’s faculty of social sciences and founding dean of its problem-based psychology curriculum. Between 2009 and 2013, he was the Vice-Chancellor (“Rector Magnificus”) of Erasmus University, a top-hundred Dutch University. Previously, Schmidt held academic positions as professor of cognitive psychology, faculty of psychology, Maastricht University, and as professor of health professions education at the same university.

His research areas of interest are learning and memory, and he has published on problem-based learning, long-term memory, and the development of expertise in medicine. He has published more than 400 articles in refereed journals, chapters in books, and books; alone or together with his 50+ PhD.-students. His Google Scholar H-index is presently 105.

Twice he received the ”Outstanding paper by an established investigator” Award of the American Educational Research Association. In 1996 the Université de Sherbrooke in Canada awarded him an honorary degree. In 2004, the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, announced him to be the first winner of its international medical education research prize for his work in medical expertise and problem-based learning.

In 2006, he received the Distinguished Career Award of the American Educational Research Association, Division I. In 2015, the journal Academic Medicine identified him to be the most-cited medical education researcher between 1970 and 2015.

He is the founding editor-in-chief of three journals: Advances in Health Sciences Education, Health Professions Education, and Education for Health.