Editor’s note: In January 2019, we published a research project “Identifying and Transmitting the Culture of Emergency Medicine Through Simulation”. I highlighted some of the theory behind this work in an earlier post you can […]
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Author: Eve Purdy
Third year medical student with interest in Emergency Medicine, Medical Education and Social Media in Health Care.
Simulation and Cultural Compression
By Eve Purdy (@purdy_eve) Throughout medical school, students learn an inconceivable amount of new knowledge around pathophysiology and treatment of medical conditions. A parallel and powerful cultural learning process simultaneously takes place. Eventually, medical students […]
Embracing Messiness in Medicine, Research, and Ourselves
By Eve Purdy (@purdy_eve) To begin to appreciate biomedicine as its own culture, we must appreciate alternate ways of knowing. As individuals we become indoctrinated into either biomedicine or the social sciences and we are […]
An overdue rant on “pimping toxic quizzing”
By Eve Purdy (@purdy_eve) In a previous post, I promised to come back to a rant on the word “pimping toxic quizzing”. So here we are, better late than never. Simply stated, the term must […]
Walking on the “wrong” side of the road
By Eve Purdy (@purdy_eve) I just moved to Australia for an education fellowship and to work on research in the anthropology of trauma care provision. So far so good. I quickly became accustomed to the […]