By Kara Allen (@ergopropterdoc), Nova Barrios, Rebecca Szabo (@inquisitiveGyn) and Eve Purdy (@purdy_eve) The alarm sounds in birth suite room 5. The maternity team rushes in to find a midwife caring for a woman with a […]
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Category: Anthropology
The Leaky Educational Container
By Eve Purdy (@purdy_eve) Creating and maintaining psychological safety [1] has been a focus for simulation educators but seems to be less of an area of attention in other educational settings. The threats to psychological […]
Relational Coordination – Linking Working Relationships with Happiness
By Eve Purdy (@purdy_eve) The Harvard Business Review article “To Be Happier at Work, Invest More in Your Relationships” recently floated to the top of my twitter feed. The post made me reflect on the […]
A day (or two) as an anthropologist
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 […]
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 […]