Chantal van Andel

Chantal van Andel is affiliated with Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC) in the Research & Education division. Her work focuses on medical education equity, particularly addressing ethnicity-related disparities in academic performance and clinical assessment. She holds a Master of Science degree and has conducted doctoral research on ethnic minority students' clinical grade differences.

Key research interests include social learning dynamics, organizational context impacts on competency assessment, and interventions to reduce health disparities in medical training. Her 2022 doctoral thesis explored institutional, assessor, and student factors influencing clinical grades across ethnicities.

Publications emphasize evidence-based strategies for fairer assessment systems, with recent work critiquing race/ethnicity categorization practices in medical education. Her studies consistently highlight the need for context-aware, broadly sampled assessment methods to mitigate systemic biases.

Van Andel's work bridges educational psychology and healthcare systems, contributing to both theoretical frameworks (e.g., mediation models of social learning) and practical solutions for equitable medical training environments.