Full Description
This volume examines education and decision-making in the health professions across diverse implementation contexts, exploring the negotiation between biomedical Western medicine and local traditions, practices, or constraints. Theoretical approaches such as collective competence, socioecology, and heterarchy provide lenses to understand how systems adapt and evolve. The result is a comparative exploration of how medical education reflects broader social, cultural, and political forces.
Combining both theory and case studies, the volume identifies factors that have contributed to the success and failure of medical innovations around the world. Drawing on cases from Canada, Nepal, Ukraine, Sub-Saharan Africa, India, Brazil, Guatemala, and East Asia, the chapters explore how history, culture, and crises shape the development and delivery of medical education. Multiple chapters examine the continuing influence of colonial legacies, whether through the marginalization of Indigenous peoples in Canada and Guatemala, the influence of caste hierarchies in India, or structural inequalities in Sub-Saharan Africa. Others focus on curricular innovations, from the integration of medical humanities in Nepal to ethics training in Canadian neonatal care, and from traditional medicine in Brazil and East Asia to adaptive learning in contexts of war and displacement.
It is essential reading for academics, clinicians and administrators in medical education as well as students in psychological and cognitive sciences.
Contents
Section 1. Implementation and Innovation Issues 1. Innovation and Implementation in the Health Professions: Translating Research in Education and Healthcare Delivery Jordan Richard Schoenherr 2. Collective Competence in the Health Professions: Learning, Thinking, and Deciding in Groups Jordan Richard Schoenherr, Yumi Mahias-Ito, and Xin Yi Li Section 2. Implementation Case Studies: Institutional and Nations Perspectives 3. Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence in Health Professions Education and Decision-Making: A Sociotechnical Systems Perspective Jordan Richard Schoenherr 4. Communication in Ethically Sensitive Situations: Implementing a Training Program in Neonatology Thierry Daboval, Emanuela Ferretti, and Alexandra Barkova 5. Developing and Implementing a Medial Humanities Curriculum in the Undergraduate Medical Curriculum, in Nepal Rajesh Gongal and Madhusudan Subedi 6. Medical Education Despite War: Innovation in the Health Professions During Armed Conflict Kucherenko Inna Ivanivna with Jordan Richard Schoenherr 7. Innovations in health professions education in Canada to address the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's Calls to Action and the health inequities experienced by Indigenous peoples Catherine B. Chan, Leah Gramlich, Lisa M. Littlechild, Rick Lightning, Jenna Ganske, Jessica Thorlakson 8. Medical Education in Brazil: A History of An Evolving Pluralistic Health Care System Alessandra Ramos Venosa, José Eduardo Baroneza, and Rachel Aparecida Ferreira Fernandes 9. Inequality and Social Mobility in the Medical Professions in India: Career Availability and Vulnerabilities Khalid Khan Section 3. International and Transnational Systems: Evolution and Adaptation 10. Putting Practice in its Place: The Development and Dynamics of Heterarchical Structure in Mayan Medical Education and Healthcare Ecosystems Jordan Richard Schoenherr 11. Medical Education in Sub-Saharan Africa E.Oluwabunmi Olapade-Olaopa, Akinyele O Adisa, Funmilayo E. Olopade, Taiwo A Lawal, Nazik Hammad, Jehu E Iputo, and Ajovi B. Scott-Emuakpor 12. The Evolving Landscape of Health Professions Education in East Asia: Heterarchies in East Asian Medicine and Medical Education Jordan Richard Schoenherr and Jenna Beaudoin
