BhEAT Lab Publications

Published May 9, 2024

The CAIPER team discusses not only the "why" but more importantly the "how" of eLearning for interprofessional education and practice AND interprofessionalism. To date, CAIPER has served over 65,000 health profession learners around the world through eLearning modules, courses, and digital training magazines while eLearning courses have been integrated into countless health profession education and professional development programs.

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Published May 7, 2024

According to doctors and nurses, humility is essential to high quality team-based, patient-centered care, but there is an explicit connection between humility and status – specifically related to the occupational status embedded within healthcare delivery.

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Published December 1, 2023

Explore how professional humility in the health care setting is when doctors, nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists, physical therapists, support staff – basically every health care provider – see each other as playing on the same team. The article also examines how team members share the same goals, understand the limitations of their own profession, see the strengths offered by others and include the patient and their caregivers in decision-making.

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Published March 24, 2024

Uncertainty is a pervasive challenge in clinical practice. While the importance of humility in addressing uncertainty has been discussed in the literature, empirical research on this topic is lacking. This article aims to examine the presence and role of humility in physicians’ experiences with uncertainty during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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Published February 23, 2024

Most of the research in and on humility has been conducted within the fields of philosophy, religion, and psychology.  But recently scholars are starting to look at the roles of humility in health care – and the research is promising.  Studies show that providers’ humility can predict high levels of patients’ satisfaction, trust, self-reported health, and even facilitate high quality communication between provider and patient.   Also, it appears that humility may even be protective against clinician burnout and the negative aspects of uncertainty in clinical decision making.

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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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