1st Edition
Fundamental and Frontiers of Medical Education and Decision-Making, Volume 2 Innovation, Implementation, and Translational Research
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.
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
Biography
Jordan Richard Schoenherr is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, a member of the Applied AI Institute at Concordia University, an Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of Psychology, and member of the Institute for Data Science at Carleton University, Canada.
