Caoimhe Ryan joins the project as Postdoctoral Fellow

Caoimhe Ryan has been appointed as a part time postdoctoral research fellow to help work on the project, starting in May 2016.  A small pilot grant is supporting our initial interview study looking at Specialists in Emergency Medicine and Oncology. Caoimhe has a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of St Andrews (2016) and MSc … Read more

Self and Identity Processes, Stress, and Resilience: Invited Talk

Symposium on Burnout and Resiliency in Medical Education Participants from across Scotland and further afield gathered in the Gateway building at St Andrews to discuss recent work on building resilience in medical education. The importance of improving the well-being of medical students and professionals has been a growing priority in recent years. As part of … Read more

AMEE Symposium: Researching identities in medical education

Divergence & convergence across theoretical & analytical perspectives Ken Mavor was part of an international team presenting at AMEE in Glasgow.  The symposium represented a wide range of research approaches looking at identities in medical education.  The presenters included: Lynn Monrouxe (Chang Gung Medical Education Research Centre, CGMH, Linkou, Taiwan); Rola Ajjawi (Centre for Medical Education, … Read more

Medical Student Social Identity and Wellbeing study

In 2013 and 2014 we conducted a study to examine some dimensions of medical student identity, social connections among medical students and wellbeing. We were pleased to have the participation from nearly 400 medical students, primarily in Australia and New Zealand, but also Europe and Asia. We were glad of the cooperation from both AMSA … Read more

AMSA Mental Health website

The Australian Medical Students Association (AMSA) has been very active in promoting mental health and wellbeing issues in the last few years particularly.  In association with the NZ association (NZMSA) they developed the first “Keeping your grass greener” guide.  This guide has recently been updated and is available on the AMSA Mental Health site. However, … Read more

Pilot grant awarded by the School of Psychology and Neuroscience 2016

We are grateful to the School of Psychology and Neuroscience for supporting a pilot study to advance the project with a small grant of £3000. The grant is titled” The importance of self and identity for understanding the impact of stress and trauma”. The main focus of the grant was to develop the ideas further in … Read more

Prevalence to Process: Invited talk in Dundee

  The Seminar series run by the College of Medicine Dentistry and Nursing in Dundee was a wonderful opportunity to explore the implications of the self and identity process model of medical student well-being. Ken presented some of the research we have been doing on self and identity in medical student wellbeing. We argued that a more … Read more