Alan Macleod

Biographic Data

ID117829
NAMEAlan Macleod
GIVEN NAMESAlan
FAMILY NAMEMacleod
SIGNATUREMACLEOD A
AFFILIATIONSDalhousie University
ORCID0000-0002-0939-7767
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS36
TOTAL CITATIONS21
AUTHOR COUNT36
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Labour upon labour

    Paula Cameron, Jordin Fletcher et al.ARTICLEMedical Teacher2026

    BACKGROUND: To date, advancing social justice in medical education has largely focused on recruitment and numerical representation of equity deserving groups. However, students recruited to diversify the profession often find themselves in an exclusionary environment that overlooks their multiple identities. The aim of this study was to illuminate underrepresented students' experiences of medical school to inform supports for these deserving stud…

  • Mixed‐methods research in medical education

    Open AccessJennifer Cleland, Alan Macleod et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2026

    INTRODUCTION: Mixed-methods research (MMR) intentionally combines (variously) theories, study designs, data collection, analyses and/or syntheses associated with more than one approach to research. Despite a rich literature on the theory and practice of MMR, the authors were concerned that much MMR in medical education fell short of the state of the art. To substantiate the problem, the authors conducted a meta-study to explore the strengths and …

  • Study the past if you would define the future

    Open AccessRachel Ellaway, Alan Macleod et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2025

  • (Dis)embodiment and medical education

    Open AccessAlan Macleod, Paula CameronARTICLEMedical Education2025

    This commentary considers the classic Feminist work of Joan Acker in the context of theorizing gender equity in medical schools

  • Working Through Loss

    Open AccessSarah Burm, Tanya Bierer et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2025

    Although grief is an unavoidable aspect of the human experience, it remains largely unspoken in the workplace, including healthcare. Physicians, in particular, minimize their grief due to professional norms and broader societal discourses, often viewing it as trivial or incomparable to the suffering they witness at work. This study examines how physicians narrate their grief to see which discourses are represented, enacted, and sometimes resisted…

  • The burden of grief

    Open AccessSarah Burm, Selena MacDonald et al.ARTICLEDeath Studies2025

    Coping with loss is an unfortunate reality faced by healthcare professionals, and the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated this challenge for those who worked on the frontlines. Our scoping review aimed to comprehensively map the existing literature pertaining to the experiences of grief among nurses and physicians in the context of the pandemic. Six bibliographic databases were searched in 2022, and a targeted search of gray literature and citation cha…

  • Disembodied, dehumanised but safe and feasible

    Open AccessCraig Brown, Alan Macleod et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2024

  • Unravelling epistemic injustice in medical education

    Open AccessVictoria Luong, Rola Ajjawi et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2024

  • A meta‐study analysing the discourses of discourse analysis in health professions education

    Open AccessAlan Macleod, Rachel Ellaway et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2024

  • Front row seat

    Carolyn M Melro, Rachael Pack et al.ARTICLEMedical Teacher2024

    BACKGROUND: While many medical schools utilize the Multiple Mini-Interview (MMI) to help select a diverse student body, we know little about MMI assessors' roles. Do MMI assessors carry unique insights on widening access (WA) to medical school? Herein we discuss the hidden expertise and insights that assessors contribute to the conversation around WA. METHODS: Ten MMI assessors (1-10 years' experience) participated in semi-structured interviews e…

  • Questions of Well-Being and Inclusion in Online Undergraduate Medical Education During Covid-19

    Open AccessAlan Macleod, Paula Cameron et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2023

  • Carda

    Open AccessJennifer Cleland, Alan Macleod et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2023

  • Learning by doing

    Open AccessHenry G Annan, Victor Do et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2023

  • There's an Etiquette to Zoom That's Not Really Present In-Person

    Open AccessAlan Macleod, Anna Macleod et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2023References: 40

    Virtual spaces that allow parents in the postpartum period to connect, support each other, and exchange information have been increasing in popularity. With the COVID-19 pandemic, many parents had to rely on virtual platforms as a primary means to connect with others and attend to their postpartum health. This study explored virtual postpartum support sessions through the web-based videoconferencing software, Zoom. Guided by feminist poststructur…

  • A phenomenological exploration of the impact of Covid‐19 on the medical education community

    Open AccessVictoria Luong, Sarah Burm et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2022

  • How an Arts-Based Clinical Skills Set Can Be Assessed During OSCEs

    Open AccessMark Gilbert, Leanne Picketts et al.ARTICLEThe AMA Journal of Ethic2022

    This study offers an arts-based tool set capable of being delivered within the familiar medical education setting and established structure of the OSCE

  • Educational experiences of health professionals from marginalized groups

    T White, Brenda L Beagan et al.ARTICLEDiaspora Indigenous and Minority…2022Cited by: 1References: 16

    Introduction Post-secondary institutions are increasingly promoting equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in health professions education. Yet, institutions continue to be spaces of exclusion and marginalization for health professional students from marginalized groups.Purpose To explore the education experiences of health professionals from marginalized groups in Canada.Methods We draw on a subset of data from a larger qualitative study examinin…

  • Lower-class origin professionals in Canadian health and social service professions

    Open AccessBrenda L Beagan, Alan Macleod et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2022Cited by: 5References: 23

  • The curious case of case study research

    Open AccessJennifer Cleland, Alan Macleod et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2021

    The conceptualisation of ‘good’ medical education research as hypothesis testing to identify universal truths that are generalisable across contexts has been challenged. Joining this conversation, the field of health professions education research is complex and contextual and there are ways of examining and reporting locally based activities and innovations, which can be of general value. This position leads to a focus on case study research (CS…

  • When I Say…Human

    Open AccessAlan Macleod, Victoria Luong et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2021

    What makes us human? Is it a question that matters? Luong et al. explore these questions in the latest instalment of “When I Say...”

  • Being Edgy in Health Professions Education

    Alan Macleod, Rachel Ellaway et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020

    The philosophy of science is concerned with what science is, its conceptual framing and underlying logic, and its ability to generate meaningful and useful knowledge. To that end, concepts such as ontology (what exists and in what way), epistemology (the knowledge we use or generate), and axiology (the value of things) are important if somewhat neglected topics in health professions education scholarship. In an attempt to address this gap, Academ…

  • Philosophy of Science Series

    Lara Varpio, Alan MacleodARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020

    Health professions education (HPE) researchers come from many different academic traditions, from psychology to engineering to rhetoric. Trained in these traditions, HPE researchers engage in science and the building of new knowledge from different paradigmatic orientations. Collaborating across these traditions is particularly generative, a phenomenon the authors call the multidisciplinary edge effect . However, to harness this productivity, sch…

  • Was Hugo Chávez to Blame? Media Depictions of Polarisation in Venezuela, 1998-2013

    Open AccessAlan MacleodARTICLEBulletin of Latin American Research2020References: 18

    This article explores how seven leading western newspapers covered the topic of polarisation in Venezuelan society during the Chávez era. It found that the media largely ignored the debate as to whether Hugo Chávez was the catalyst or consequence of polarisation. It virtually unanimously presented him as a divisive, polarising character destroying democracy, contrary to the lived experiences of many Venezuelans, while ignoring other possible expl…

  • Manufacturing Consent in Venezuela

    Open AccessAlan MacleodARTICLECritical Sociology2020Cited by: 1References: 6

    This article assesses Western news media coverage of Venezuela between 1998 and 2014. It found that the major newspapers in the UK and US reproduce the ideology of Western governments, ignoring strong empirical evidence challenging those positions. The press portrayed Venezuela in an overwhelmingly negative light, presenting highly contested minority opinions as facts while barely mentioning competing arguments, as Herman and Chomsky's (2002) pro…

  • Chavista ‘thugs’ vs. opposition ‘civil society’

    Open AccessAlan MacleodARTICLERace & Class2019Cited by: 2

    Since the election of Hugo Chavez in 1998, Venezuela has undergone a period of intense racial and class conflict, as a multiethnic subaltern coalition has begun to assert itself politically against a previously hegemonic and inordinately dominant white elite. Scholars have highlighted the local media’s racial and class snobbery when covering social movements and civil society, attempting to split the country into two groups: ‘underclass mobs’ and…