Picture: reflection and the fluidity of professional identity The fluidity of professional identity Pre-amble: I have been collaborating with Dr. Stephanie Best and Professor Sharon Williams on research into professional identity since the spring of 2017. Stephanie and Sharon have … Continue reading
For the past two years I have been collaborating with two colleagues in a British university on a project investigating the meanings of professional identity in multiprofessional teams from health and social care organisations. I am keeping the names of … Continue reading
Background I have recently returned from a visit to the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University, Newfoundland. One of the purposes of the visit was to follow up the audit projects on (a) social accountability and (b) student engagement. In … Continue reading
Background: Student engagement in the medical school has the aims of improving the curriculum, the learning environments, students’ motivation and their active citizenship (Hardy, 2009; Zepke & Leach, 2010). The process of auditing activities … Continue reading
The work with educators in veterinary medicine continues to be stimulating and productive. It is not without its controversies involving issues of morality and ethics, philosophy, and empathy, even political theory. For example, two posters at the annual Veterinary Education … Continue reading
Background Bourdieu’s theory of cultural reproduction (1977) can be applied to medical education as the way educators reproduce their cultural capital and habitus in their students. Social accountability describes the concept in which medical faculties direct their education, research … Continue reading
Background and Purpose – based in the philosophy of andragogy [1], we sought to identify whether there were benefits from consensus building [2] in curriculum development in the different contexts of undergraduate human medicine for public health, professionalism and ethics … Continue reading
Purpose – this abstract questions whether as educators we are prepared to take the opportunity for teaching and learning about communications. This opportunity has been created by the changes in the practices of veterinary and human medicine in the past … Continue reading