HSE rounds bring together faculty members interested in innovation and research in health sciences education. These sessions, previously known as MedEd Rounds, offer Faculty Members, Associate Members and visiting researchers the opportunity to present their work to the Faculty and the University at large.
Fall/Winter 2024-2025 HSE Rounds
January 23, 2025
Lara Varpio, PhD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics Perelman School of Medicine University of Philadelphia
Co-Director of Research in Medical Education The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Professional Identity Formation as Immigration
Location: Holmes Hall, 3506 de la Montagne
Date: January 23, 2025
Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm
We welcome you to join us for this person in-person. Please note there will not be a Zoom link offered for this meeting. This in an in-person event only, space is limited in order to secure your space we ask that you .
We gratefully acknowledge the Newell Trust in Research in Health Sciences Education for providing support for this event.
Abstract:
Just as immigrants from various countries travel great distances in hopes of calling a new country home, our health professions learners also undertake great journeys. For some, their trips might involve geographic treks; however, all will undertake great private journeys across any number of terrains in the name of professional identity formation. In this session, we’ll consider professional identity formation as a form of immigration. Through this framing, we will consider the deeply personal—and sometimes painful—work that is involved in taking on the responsibilities of the white coat.
Learning objectives:
After attending this presentation, participants will be able to:
1. Understand professional identity formation (PIF) as a personal and social process;
2. Describe the reasons why, for many, PIF is a transformative process that begins well before matriculation;
3. Recognize the dangers of PIF that have been reported in the literature; and
4. Describe how recognizing PIF as subjectification can help address the dangers of the PIF immigration journey.
Dr. Lara Varpio is Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Philadelphia and the Co-Director of Research in Medical Education at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She started these positions in 2022, after serving for 9 years at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and 6 years at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
Dr. Varpio’s research investigates how individual clinicians can shape the medical profession, and how the profession shapes individual clinicians. In that research, she uses qualitative methodologies and methods, integrated with theories from the Social Sciences and Humanities. Her most recent work is related to: the perilous myths of professional identity formation, and how the concept of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning is failing medical education. She mentors many individual health professions educators from several specialties in a wide range of topics, and is internationally recognized for her expertise in qualitative research methods and methodologies, and with a wide array of different theories.
Dr. Varpio has secured over $5.7millionUSD in research grants, has authored +150 peer-reviewed conference presentations, disseminated +180 peer-reviewed publications, and given keynote talks and invited sessions at all the major medical education international conferences. Dr. Varpio was recently selected by the Fulbright Scholarship committee to mentor and host a Fulbright Scholar award winner from Australia. In 2019, she was selected as one of twelve inaugural Karolinska Fellows. She was co-host of the KeyLIME podcast, and moved with the show to the Karolinska Institutet, and now co-hosts the PAPERs Podcast.
February 20, 2025
MEREDITH VANSTONE, PhD
Associate Professor
Director, MD/PhD Program
Canada Research Chair in Ethical Complexity in Primary Care
Education Policy: What is it, Why is it relevant, How can I use it to build more effective health professions education, research and innovations?
VIA ZOOM
February 20, 2025 16H00 - 17H30
Please to obtain the Zoom link
Meredith Vanstone is Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethical Complexity in Primary Care. Meredith's research portfolio blends health policy and health professions education perspectives to develop, optimize, and maintain a strong primary care workforce. She is a member of McMaster's Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis and the director of their MD/PhD program.
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JERRY M. MANIATE, MD, M.ED, EMBA, FRCPC, FACP, CCPE, CPC(HC)
Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Member Support Department of Medicine, University of OttawaÌýEDIA Advisor and Affiliated Researcher, Bruyère Research Institute
Executive Director & Primary Investigator, Equity in Health Systems Lab
Working Together: Driving Towards Authentic Belonging and Health Equity in our Health System
IN PERSON
November 28, 2024 16H00 - 17H30
McIntyre Medical Building, Meakins Amphitheatre
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Abstract
The current health system in Canada is straining under the weight of numerous challenges that have exposed and even amplified the inequities that exist in care and experience. During this session we will explore the realities and challenges of our current health system from an educational perspective, and then identify the enablers within health professions education that can be leveraged to experience authentic belonging as we strive towards health equity for all.
Dr. Jerry Maniate is a clinician-educator at The Ottawa Hospital, an Associate Professor and inaugural Vice Chair of Member Support in the Department of Medicine at the University of Ottawa and is EDIA Advisor and a researcher at the Bruyère Research Institute. He is the Executive Director and Primary Investigator of the Equity in Health Systems Lab () which he founded in September 2021. The Lab is an international community of transdisciplinary researchers, health care professionals, educators, policymakers, learners, and patients who are seeking to make an impact on our community and health system with the work they are engaged with through a unique approach. His academic work and that of the EqHS Lab has been focused on understanding and addressing inequities, accessibility challenges, and social accountability in our health systems through collaborative partnerships using a scholarly lens.
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We gratefully acknowledge the Class of 1975 Lecture in Medical Leadership Fund for supporting this lecture in Health Sciences Education.
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