COVID-19 and Team-Based Healthcare: The Essentiality of Theory Driven Research

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.

Humanism and the Premedical Realm: An Exercise in Graphic Medical Education

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.

Challenging the clinically-situated emotion-deficient version of empathy within medicine and medical education research

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.

Extending the Table: Engaging Social Science in the Interprofessional Realm

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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