1st Edition
Helping a Field See Itself Envisioning a Philosophy of Medical Education
Foreword
Megan E. L. Brown
1. Problems No One Looked For: Philosophical Expeditions into Medical Education
Mario Veen and Anna T. Cianciolo
2. Beyond the Medical Model: Thinking Differently about Medical Education and Medical Education Research
Gert J. J. Biesta and Marije van Braak
3. Teaching Medical Epistemology within an Evidence-Based Medicine Curriculum
Mark R. Tonelli and Robyn Bluhm
4. Language, Philosophy, and Medical Education
John R. Skelton
5. Contending with Our Racial Past in Medical Education: A Foucauldian Perspective
Zareen Zaidi, Ian M. Partman, Cynthia R.Whitehead, Ayelet Kuper and Tasha R. Wyatt
6. Phenomenological Research in Health Professions Education: Tunneling from Both Ends
Chris Rietmeijer and Mario Veen
7. Black, White and Gray: Student Perspectives on Medical Humanities and Medical Education
Madeleine Noelle Olding, Freya Rhodes, John Humm, Phoebe Ross and Catherine McGarry
8. Because We Care: A Philosophical Investigation into the Spirit of Medical Education
Camillo Coccia and Mario Veen
9. A Matter of Trust: Online Proctored Exams and the Integration of Technologies of Assessment in Medical Education
Tim Fawns and Sven P. C. Schaepkens
10. Being-Opposite-Illness: Phenomenological Ontology in Medical Education and Clinical Practice
John Humm
11. The Lifecycle of a Clinical Cadaver: A Practice-Based Ethnography
Anna MacLeod, Victoria Luong, Paula Cameron, George Kovacs, Molly Fredeen, Lucy Patrick, Olga Kits and Jonathan Tummons
12. Technical Difficulties: Teaching Critical Philosophical Orientations toward Technology
Benjamin Chin-Yee, Laura Nimmon and Mario Veen
13. Mind the Gap: A Philosophical Analysis of Reflection’s Many Benefits
Sven P. C. Schaepkens and Thijs Lijster
14. Conclusions: Envisioning a Philosophy of Medical Education
Anna T. Cianciolo and Mario Veen
Biography
Mario Veen is Assistant Professor Educational Research at the Department of General Practice of Erasmus MC, interested in correspondences between philosophy and medical education. He has an interdisciplinary background in philosophy, social science and the humanities. He hosts the podcasts Let Me Ask You Something and Life From Plato’s Cave.
Anna T. Cianciolo is Associate Professor of Medical Education at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Editor-in-Chief of Teaching and Learning in Medicine, and a lover of questions. Her professional passion is to conduct and cultivate scholarship that empowers others to raise questions and explore answers together.






