Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, CANADA
Current Grants
Dr. Anna MacLeod, Principal Investigator
Anna is currently leading two nationally-funded research studies.
You can read more about her role as a Co-Investigator below.
The experiences of under-represented in medicine (UiM) medical students: A meta-ethnography (2023 - 2024)
This study examines the lived experiences of Underrepresented in Medicine (UiM) students in medical school.
Using a meta-ethnographic approach, our international team will:
1) synthesize qualitative evidence related to UiM students’ experiences of medical school;
2) effectively mobilize findings to share outcomes with local, national, and international medical education decision makers; and
3) communicate strengths, gaps, and opportunities in the existing literature to identify future research agendas.
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We are currently in the dissemination phase of our study. You can read our first offering, our Final Report, here.
Death and dying in Undergraduate Medical Education: An ethnographic critical discourse analysis (2020 - 2024)
This study is a four-year ethnographic investigation that follows a group of medical students through their degree.
Operating within a critical discourse analysis theoretical frame, we are analyzing curriculum, performing focused observations, and conducting in-depth interviews with students to explore discursive engagement with experiences of death in formal, informal, and hidden curriculum.
Our research questions are:
(1) How is death discursively constructed in formal curriculum?
(2) How is death discursively constructed in informal curriculum? and
(3) What are the influences of these discourses on medical students' well-being?
You can read an article about this work, "Case-Informed Learning in Medical Education: A Call for Ontological Fidelity," here.
Dr. Anna MacLeod, Co-Investigator
The promotions process as an act of power: An institutional ethnography of faculties of medicine in Canada (2023 - 2026)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Sophie Soklaridis
Grant Program: Partnership Development Grants, Insight and Connection
Funder: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Co-Applicants: Constance LeBlanc, Anna Macleod, Beth-Ann Cummings, Teresa Chan, Boluwaji Ogunyemi, Mala Joneja, Erin Cameron, Maria Hubinette, Brett Schrewe, Lyn Sonnenberg, David Keegan, Ming-Ka Chan, Marilyn Baetz, Ayelet Kuper, Cynthia R. Whitehead, Kinnon MacKinnon. Collaborators: Babar Haroon, Rachel Kronick, Saleem Razack, , Catherine Cervin, Diane M. Lougheed, Jane Philpott, Christina St-Onge, Julien Poitras, Melanie Lewis, Jayna Holroyd-Leduc, Aliya Kassam, Valerie H. Taylor, Sara Israels, Jerry Maniate, Sharon Whiting, Pier Bryden, Gillian Hawker, Patricia Houston, Morag C. Paton, Pooitsing Andrea Lum, Suzan Schneeweiss.
Books By Heart: Can communal bibliotherapy on a cardiac inpatient unit reduce adverse outcomes at one year by bolstering patients’ self-efficacy and reducing anxiety and depression? (2023 - 2026)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Gabrielle Horne
Grant Program: Intentional Initiatives Award
Funder: Research Nova Scotia
Co-Applicants: AnSulaye Thakrar, Jafna Cox, Daniel Brandes, Anna MacLeod, Dominique Shephard, Justina Spencer, Caroline, King, Kristen Goldworthy, Natasha Breward, Stacy Pyke, Alex Liot, Chantelle Rideout