BhEAT Lab Publications

Published April 29, 2023

A special article from Mayo Clinic Proceedings by Barret Michalec PhD, Abigail Gómez-Morales MS, Jon C. Tilburt MD, and Frederic W. Hafferty PhD focusing on Impostor phenomenon (IP) and the chronic experience of inaccurate self-perceptions related to intellectual fraudulence, phoniness, undeserved achievement, and self-doubt. The article uses humility as a conceptual sparring partner with impostor phenomenon to examine the similarities and differences between the concepts, as well as explore the various nuances associated with impostor phenomenon.

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Published May 18, 2022

This chapter is a brief overview of the ambiguities of humility and provides philosophical thought related to humility through antiquity, classic Christian theology, the Enlightenment from the perspective of more contemporary philosophical scholars. Consideration is provided of mounting (conceptual) ambiguities of humility over time and how it relates to the overarching perception of humility within healthcare delivery and health professions education.

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Published February 2, 2022

Although medical school admission committees routinely insist their interest in diverse and “well-rounded” applicants, the premed path (PMP), through formal and informal mechanisms, is constructed to favor those from high in socioeconomic status (SES) privileged backgrounds, and those majoring in typical premed majors such as in the Biological Sciences.

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Published January 3, 2022

CAIPER Director & Macy Foundation Scholar, Dr. Barret Michalec, seeks to expose what we may take for granted when it comes to social science with, and where his place, as a sociologist, might be at the "table" when advancing interprofessional education and collaborative practice.

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Published November 22, 2021

The culture and practice of medicine for physicians (and medical students) is examined and how this practice includes maintaining an "emotionally detached and physiologically refrained position within the clinical encounter," and how empathy seems to be left behind within medicine and medical education research.

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Published April 28, 2021

The connections between humility and social status are examined through its conceptualization, theory development, and application of humility by "identifying the elephant," within Social Status, Social Stratification and Expectation States Theory.

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Published September 15, 2020

This article is one of the first research articles in comic form and uses the students' voice and perspective to examine the opportunities for humanism on the premed path. While graphic medicine, stemming from the adaptation of the graphic novel, has been used for the exploration of healthcare topics, at the time of its publication.

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Published August 18, 2020

Multiple organizational theories including micro, meso, and macro-level are outlined to examine teamness, heightened interprofessional values and practices and the potential for "dilution of occupational status hierarchies," within healthcare practice and delivery during the time of COVID-19.

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