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We are celebrating our latest peer reviewed article! Led by team members Victoria Luong and Rola Ajjawi, the paper presents a narrative review on underrepresented medical students' struggle to belong in medical school. This review involved revisiting studies from our meta-ethnographic research on the additional work required of these students during medical school. As "The Struggle to Belong" states: Attending to the politics of belonging means paying attention to intern

Our team was delighted to share some recent research at Dalhousie University's Medical Education Research and Innovation Showcase (MERIS) on November 6th, 2025. Team member Paula Cameron presented a longitudinal critical discourse analysis (CDA) paper, "Superheroes, shepherds, and symbols: How medical learners talk about their role with dying patients during the clerkship/ residency transition." Drawing on two consecutive studies, the paper tracks three key transitions in h

We are happy to share a new methods article from our team! Focused on how to research sensitive topics, Anna and Paula collaborated with co-authors Jamie Geringer, Kori LaDonna, and Jerusalem Merkebu as part of a series for the journal The Clinical Teacher. As the team write in the abstract: Health professions education inevitably exposes learners to socially, emotionally, and ethically sensitive experiences—ranging from academic struggle and mistreatment to emotionally char

Anna was interviewed about ethnography as part of the Karolina Institute's wonderful video series, "Med Ed Studio." As she says in her...

An incredible achievement... Huge congratulations to Anna and the team for winning The International Association for Health Professions...

Congrats to Anna, who recently received the Perspectives on Medical Education Reviewer Excellence Award for 2023!! This award recognizes...

We are excited to announce that Anna's latest first-authored article has been published online... The article, entitled "'There’s an...

Congratulations to lead author Craig Brown and co-authors Anna MacLeod, Lorraine Hawick and Jennifer Cleland on their new open access...

Anna was delighted to be the guest speaker at the 2023 Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine Resident Research Awards on Wednesday, June 7th. Her...

We were thrilled to host our dear collaborator, Dr. Rola Ajjawi, visiting from Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Ajjawi...

Anna had a fantastic time presenting her keynote at the 2023 Medical Education Scholarship Symposium, hosted by the Office of Health and...

Congratulations to Dr. Anna MacLeod and co-authors Drs. Victoria Luong, Paula Cameron, Sarah Burm, Simon Field, Olga Kits, Stephen...

Congratulations to Dr. Anna MacLeod and teammates on their new grant, "The experiences of under-represented in medicine (UiM) medical...

Anna will be presenting one of two keynotes on May 11th, 2023 at the upcoming 2023 Health & Medical Education Scholarship Symposium...

Drs. Anna MacLeod and Victoria Luong were interviewed by Drs. Gabrielle Finn and Mario Veen about our team's paper, "The Lifecycle of a...

Dalhousie's Faculty of Medicine recently highlighted their groundbreaking Clinical Cadaver Program, which works in partnership with the...

Congratulations to first author Alireza Jalali, and co-authors Dahn Jeong, Anna MacLeod, and Douglas Archibald for their new commentary...

Drs. Victoria Luong and Anna MacLeod, along with Deakin University scholar Dr. Margaret Bearman, have published a new article exploring...