What was life like for women who studied at the Edinburgh Medical School in the early twentieth century? Archival material provides insight into the challenges many medical women faced. By Juliet Gartside Forty women matriculated at the University of Edinburgh between 1869 and 1873, including the renowned Edinburgh Seven, making them the first women to […]

Changing the visual design mid-way in a video project is quite unusual, but pivoting to a softer animation style with stick figures proved successful for both the client and us.

In this extra post, Avita Rath builds on existing scholarship on teacher noticing and noticing in health professions education, while extending the discussion to clinical educator practice in dental education and resource-constrained teaching contexts. The post speaks broadly to learning and teaching, clinical education, professional identity formation, feedback, and staff development in teaching practice. Avita […]

In After Virtue, MacIntyre distinguishes between the internal and external goods of a practice. Internal goods are intrinsic to a specific practice: they can only be achieved by participating in it according to its standards (for example, among the goods of chess are the development of a certain tactical awareness and a particular strategic imagination). […]

The saying “It takes a village…” is probably the best description for what it feels like to work in research. Without the support of my mentors and the Medical Research Foundation, the present project would not exist. Creating meaningful change is only possible if we connect with lived experience experts, clinicians, policy makers, and other […]

Part Two: The Chilean fideicomiso and trusts in Latin America By León Carmona Fontaine, Assistant Professor of Private Law at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. In a previous entry published on this blog, I showed that there are compelling reasons to think that the fideicomiso provided for in the Chilean Civil Code of 1855 […]