Wendy Hu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3938771 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wendy Hu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wendy |
| FAMILY NAME | Hu |
| SIGNATURE | HU W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1711-3808 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Widening access to medicine
Widening access to medical school in Australia
Translating faculty development into practice and professional identity
INTRODUCTION: There is limited evidence about whether and how faculty development programs influence clinical educators' practice and professional identity formation, and the factors which make faculty development outcomes sustained and impactful. METHODS: This multi-institution interpretive phenomenological study reports on the findings from in-depth interviews of 21 clinical educators who had participated in university-based longitudinal facult…
I'm not 'fake rural
This article addresses the accessibility of medical education for rural students, focusing on the intersection of rurality and socioeconomic privilege. We present findings from a study of rural background medical students from four Australian medical schools, which explored their experiences of admissions processes and their ongoing socialisation. Participants characterised admissions pathways as complex, requiring social capital to navigate. Tho…
Cultures of Success
Despite decades of policies to widen participation in medical degrees, students selected for Medicine continue to reflect a socially elite group, rather than the diversity of the communities that graduates will serve. While research has documented experiences of students from disadvantaged backgrounds, this paper examines the “cultures of success” that enable advantaged students to gain entry to medical school. It documents how these students’ sc…
Longitudinal exploration of students' identity formation during the transition from pre‐clinical to clinical training using research poetry
The socioemotional challenges and consequences for caregivers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children with otitis media
INTRODUCTION: Living with ear disease can have extensive impacts on physical, emotional and social well-being. This study explored otitis media (OM) and its management from the perspective of caregivers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. METHODS: Semi-structured interviews were conducted from 2015 to 2020 with caregivers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children with OM. Thematic analysis of transcripts was undertaken usin…
Students' social networks are diverse, dynamic and deliberate when transitioning to clinical training
Advancing careers in medical education
INTRODUCTION: Advancement of careers in medical education remains a challenge around the world and is under-researched in resource-constrained contexts. Using the Theory of Practice Architectures (TPA) as a conceptual lens, we investigated the emergence and subsequent development of medical education careers in a resource-constrained country. METHODS: Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 14 early-career…
A patient expectations questionnaire for determining criteria for entrustment decisions
The questionnaire is a feasible method of recording patient expectations, enabling educators to consult with and include patient perspectives when developing criteria for entrustment decisions in a diverse range of clinical contexts
Appraising the use of smartphones and apps when conducting qualitative medical education research
Smartphone use is rampant in everyday life and is increasing in: patient management, teaching and learning of medicine and health research. There is untapped potential to use smartphones as research tools in MER for a range of research approaches. Qualitative research is increasingly common in medical education research (MER). Smartphone use as a research tool has not been well explored in MER and this Guide will be useful to researchers consider…
Years Later
PURPOSE: Internationally, health professions education scholarship units (HPESUs) are often developed to promote engagement in educational scholarship, yet little is known about how HPESUs change over time or what factors support their longevity. In hopes of helping HPESUs thrive, this study explored factors that shaped the evolution of 8 HPESUs over the past 14 years. METHOD: This study involved retrospective case-study analysis of the 8 America…
Differences between medical school and PGY1 learning outcomes
Background: Widespread concerns about new medical graduates’ ‘work readiness’ may reflect, in part, differences in mandatory learning outcomes for medical students and new medical graduates.Purpose: To examine differences between required medical student and PGY1 (first year resident) training program outcomes, and the nature and magnitude of these differences.Method: Comparison, systematic identification and thematic analysis of differences betw…
“Imagine if I'm not here, what they're going to do?”—Health‐care access and culturally and linguistically diverse women in prison
BACKGROUND: Women in prison have complex medical needs and poorer health status than the general population. Culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) women in prison, particularly those with limited English proficiency (LEP), have distinct needs and risk additional isolation, discrimination and marginalization when they are in prison. OBJECTIVE: We sought to examine how cultural and linguistic diversity, particularly LEP, affects the health-c…
A Scoping Review of Qualitative Research Methods Used With People in Prison
Researchers undertaking qualitative interview and focus group research with people in prison must consider the research methods they use, given the ethical and practical complexities of prison-based research. In particular, there are explicit and implicit coercion risks and barriers to access, privacy, and confidentiality. To examine how the challenges of conducting rigorous qualitative research with prisoners were handled, we undertook a scoping…
Medical homelessness and candidacy
For women in transition between prison and community, healthcare access could be experienced as 'medical homelessness' in which women felt caught in a perpetual state of waiting and exclusion during cycles of prison- and community-based care. Their healthcare experiences were characterized by ineffectual attempts to access care, transient relationships with healthcare providers, disrupted medical management and a fear that stigma would prevent ca…
Academic Guidance in Medical Student Research
Beliefs and beyond
Background Clinicians and public health professionals are centrally concerned with mediating risk. However, people often resist the risk‐related information that is communicated to them by experts, or have their own models of risk that conflict with expert views. Quantitative studies have clearly demonstrated the importance of health beliefs and various cognitive and emotional processes in shaping risk perception. More recently, a growing body of…
When doctors disagree
Objective To examine the views of doctors which underpin clinical practice variation concerning an uncertain health risk, and the views of parents who had sought advice from these doctors, using the example of childhood food allergy. Study design Qualitative study involving in‐depth interviews and participant observation over 16 months. Focus groups and consultation audio‐recordings provided corroborative data. Setting Three specialist allergy cl…
Risk, rationality, and regret
Risk and uncertainty are unavoidable in clinical medicine. In the case of childhood food allergy, the dysphoric experience of uncertainty is heightened by the perception of unpredictable danger to young children. Medicine has tended to respond to uncertainty with forms of rational decision making. Rationality cannot, however, resolve uncertainty and provides an insufficient account of risk. This paper compares the medical and parental accounts of…
Risk, rationality, and regret
Risk and uncertainty are unavoidable in clinical medicine. In the case of childhood food allergy, the dysphoric experience of uncertainty is heightened by the perception of unpredictable danger to young children. Medicine has tended to respond to uncertainty with forms of rational decision making. Rationality cannot, however, resolve uncertainty and provides an insufficient account of risk. This paper compares the medical and parental accounts of…
Risk, rationality, and regret
Risk and uncertainty are unavoidable in clinical medicine. In the case of childhood food allergy, the dysphoric experience of uncertainty is heightened by the perception of unpredictable danger to young children. Medicine has tended to respond to uncertainty with forms of rational decision making. Rationality cannot, however, resolve uncertainty and provides an insufficient account of risk. This paper compares the medical and parental accounts of…
When doctors disagree
Objective To examine the views of doctors which underpin clinical practice variation concerning an uncertain health risk, and the views of parents who had sought advice from these doctors, using the example of childhood food allergy. Study design Qualitative study involving in‐depth interviews and participant observation over 16 months. Focus groups and consultation audio‐recordings provided corroborative data. Setting Three specialist allergy cl…
Beliefs and beyond
Background Clinicians and public health professionals are centrally concerned with mediating risk. However, people often resist the risk‐related information that is communicated to them by experts, or have their own models of risk that conflict with expert views. Quantitative studies have clearly demonstrated the importance of health beliefs and various cognitive and emotional processes in shaping risk perception. More recently, a growing body of…
Academic Guidance in Medical Student Research
Medical homelessness and candidacy
For women in transition between prison and community, healthcare access could be experienced as 'medical homelessness' in which women felt caught in a perpetual state of waiting and exclusion during cycles of prison- and community-based care. Their healthcare experiences were characterized by ineffectual attempts to access care, transient relationships with healthcare providers, disrupted medical management and a fear that stigma would prevent ca…
“Imagine if I'm not here, what they're going to do?”—Health‐care access and culturally and linguistically diverse women in prison
BACKGROUND: Women in prison have complex medical needs and poorer health status than the general population. Culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) women in prison, particularly those with limited English proficiency (LEP), have distinct needs and risk additional isolation, discrimination and marginalization when they are in prison. OBJECTIVE: We sought to examine how cultural and linguistic diversity, particularly LEP, affects the health-c…
A Scoping Review of Qualitative Research Methods Used With People in Prison
Researchers undertaking qualitative interview and focus group research with people in prison must consider the research methods they use, given the ethical and practical complexities of prison-based research. In particular, there are explicit and implicit coercion risks and barriers to access, privacy, and confidentiality. To examine how the challenges of conducting rigorous qualitative research with prisoners were handled, we undertook a scoping…
Years Later
PURPOSE: Internationally, health professions education scholarship units (HPESUs) are often developed to promote engagement in educational scholarship, yet little is known about how HPESUs change over time or what factors support their longevity. In hopes of helping HPESUs thrive, this study explored factors that shaped the evolution of 8 HPESUs over the past 14 years. METHOD: This study involved retrospective case-study analysis of the 8 America…
Differences between medical school and PGY1 learning outcomes
Background: Widespread concerns about new medical graduates’ ‘work readiness’ may reflect, in part, differences in mandatory learning outcomes for medical students and new medical graduates.Purpose: To examine differences between required medical student and PGY1 (first year resident) training program outcomes, and the nature and magnitude of these differences.Method: Comparison, systematic identification and thematic analysis of differences betw…
Students' social networks are diverse, dynamic and deliberate when transitioning to clinical training
Advancing careers in medical education
INTRODUCTION: Advancement of careers in medical education remains a challenge around the world and is under-researched in resource-constrained contexts. Using the Theory of Practice Architectures (TPA) as a conceptual lens, we investigated the emergence and subsequent development of medical education careers in a resource-constrained country. METHODS: Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 14 early-career…
A patient expectations questionnaire for determining criteria for entrustment decisions
The questionnaire is a feasible method of recording patient expectations, enabling educators to consult with and include patient perspectives when developing criteria for entrustment decisions in a diverse range of clinical contexts
Appraising the use of smartphones and apps when conducting qualitative medical education research
Smartphone use is rampant in everyday life and is increasing in: patient management, teaching and learning of medicine and health research. There is untapped potential to use smartphones as research tools in MER for a range of research approaches. Qualitative research is increasingly common in medical education research (MER). Smartphone use as a research tool has not been well explored in MER and this Guide will be useful to researchers consider…
The socioemotional challenges and consequences for caregivers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children with otitis media
INTRODUCTION: Living with ear disease can have extensive impacts on physical, emotional and social well-being. This study explored otitis media (OM) and its management from the perspective of caregivers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. METHODS: Semi-structured interviews were conducted from 2015 to 2020 with caregivers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children with OM. Thematic analysis of transcripts was undertaken usin…
Cultures of Success
Despite decades of policies to widen participation in medical degrees, students selected for Medicine continue to reflect a socially elite group, rather than the diversity of the communities that graduates will serve. While research has documented experiences of students from disadvantaged backgrounds, this paper examines the “cultures of success” that enable advantaged students to gain entry to medical school. It documents how these students’ sc…
Longitudinal exploration of students' identity formation during the transition from pre‐clinical to clinical training using research poetry
Widening access to medical school in Australia
Translating faculty development into practice and professional identity
INTRODUCTION: There is limited evidence about whether and how faculty development programs influence clinical educators' practice and professional identity formation, and the factors which make faculty development outcomes sustained and impactful. METHODS: This multi-institution interpretive phenomenological study reports on the findings from in-depth interviews of 21 clinical educators who had participated in university-based longitudinal facult…
I'm not 'fake rural
This article addresses the accessibility of medical education for rural students, focusing on the intersection of rurality and socioeconomic privilege. We present findings from a study of rural background medical students from four Australian medical schools, which explored their experiences of admissions processes and their ongoing socialisation. Participants characterised admissions pathways as complex, requiring social capital to navigate. Tho…
Widening access to medicine
Psychology (16 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Medical education (10 works) · Qualitative research (9 works) · Innovations in Medical Education (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Diversity and Career in Medicine (6 works) · Thematic analysis (6 works)