Michelle O’toole
Biographic Data
| ID | 4368675 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle O’toole |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | O’toole |
| SIGNATURE | O’TOOLE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0383-8146 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Training simulated participants for role portrayal and feedback practices in communication skills training
BACKGROUND: Providing feedback is a key aspect of simulated participants' (SPs) educational work. In teaching contexts, the ability to provide feedback to learners is central to their role. Suboptimal feedback practices may deny learners the valuable feedback they need to learn and improve. This scoping review systematically maps the evidence related to SPs' role as educators and identifies how SPs prepare for their role and feedback practices. M…
‘They mirror what they see’
PURPOSE: In simulation-based education (SBE), educators integrate their professional experiences to prepare learners for real world practice and may embed unproductive stereotypical biases. Although learning culture influences educational practices, the interactions between professional culture and SBE remain less clear. This study explores how professional learning culture informs simulation practices in healthcare, law, teacher training and par…
Widening Participation in Scotland 1997–2021
This article sets out and critically analyses the state of current knowledge on Widening Participation at higher education institutions in Scotland and sets forth avenues for further research. Through a semi‐systematic review of the literature, six discrete but overlapping themes relating to Widening Participation are identified, namely, (1) factors affecting the decision to apply to university, (2) the transition from high school or further educ…
‘How can we help the students learn?’ A grounded theory study of simulated participants as educators
PURPOSE: Despite the demonstrated value of simulated participant (SP) feedback, we are only beginning to understand how to optimize SPs' feedback practices for communication skills and strengthen their role as educators. SPs portray roles and engage in feedback practices to support simulated-based learning for communication skills training. SPs come to their role with diverse experiences, knowledge, and training, such as (a) professional actors, …
Illuminating the liminality of the doctoral journey
Illuminating the liminality of the doctoral journey: precarity, agency and COVID-19
In support of appropriate psychological debriefing
As emergency providers experienced in peer support (MOT) and healthcare debriefing (WE), we feel compelled to respond to Teodorczuk and Kelly.1 We agree with the underlying arguments for providing psychological supports to medical students but disagree with flawed claims that psychological debriefing (PD) causes harm. PD originated when Dr Jeffrey Mitchell designed Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) as a package of interventions for emerg…
Rainbow Lanyards
This article presents the powerful account of Hannah, a woman working in a UK university who identifies as bisexual and queer. Hannah's voice reflects a younger generation of workers who have come of age with the emergence of queer theory and activism supporting greater LGBT rights. Her narrative illustrates the tensions around developing an inclusive stance towards diverse sexual identities at work. Hannah's account resonates with critical views…
I've Got Your Back
This article considers solidarity as a dynamic interrelationship between intersubjective and structural processes that underpin webs of meaning in dangerous work conditions. Conceptual links are developed to integrate previously unconnected aspects of work and relationships between danger, volunteering, edgework and solidarity - revealing how a distinct form of solidarity is engendered and experienced. Drawing on 43 in-depth interviews with Royal…
Beyond choice
This article problematizes the dominant assumption in the literature on volunteer work that it is undertaken primarily as a matter of individual choice. Using findings from a qualitative study of volunteers at the not-for-profit organization, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, it is shown that volunteering exists within a dense web of social relations, especially familial and communal relations, so that volunteering is recursively constitut…
Beyond choice
This article problematizes the dominant assumption in the literature on volunteer work that it is undertaken primarily as a matter of individual choice. Using findings from a qualitative study of volunteers at the not-for-profit organization, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, it is shown that volunteering exists within a dense web of social relations, especially familial and communal relations, so that volunteering is recursively constitut…
Rainbow Lanyards
This article presents the powerful account of Hannah, a woman working in a UK university who identifies as bisexual and queer. Hannah's voice reflects a younger generation of workers who have come of age with the emergence of queer theory and activism supporting greater LGBT rights. Her narrative illustrates the tensions around developing an inclusive stance towards diverse sexual identities at work. Hannah's account resonates with critical views…
I've Got Your Back
This article considers solidarity as a dynamic interrelationship between intersubjective and structural processes that underpin webs of meaning in dangerous work conditions. Conceptual links are developed to integrate previously unconnected aspects of work and relationships between danger, volunteering, edgework and solidarity - revealing how a distinct form of solidarity is engendered and experienced. Drawing on 43 in-depth interviews with Royal…
Beyond choice
This article problematizes the dominant assumption in the literature on volunteer work that it is undertaken primarily as a matter of individual choice. Using findings from a qualitative study of volunteers at the not-for-profit organization, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, it is shown that volunteering exists within a dense web of social relations, especially familial and communal relations, so that volunteering is recursively constitut…
Rainbow Lanyards
This article presents the powerful account of Hannah, a woman working in a UK university who identifies as bisexual and queer. Hannah's voice reflects a younger generation of workers who have come of age with the emergence of queer theory and activism supporting greater LGBT rights. Her narrative illustrates the tensions around developing an inclusive stance towards diverse sexual identities at work. Hannah's account resonates with critical views…
I've Got Your Back
This article considers solidarity as a dynamic interrelationship between intersubjective and structural processes that underpin webs of meaning in dangerous work conditions. Conceptual links are developed to integrate previously unconnected aspects of work and relationships between danger, volunteering, edgework and solidarity - revealing how a distinct form of solidarity is engendered and experienced. Drawing on 43 in-depth interviews with Royal…
Illuminating the liminality of the doctoral journey
Illuminating the liminality of the doctoral journey: precarity, agency and COVID-19
In support of appropriate psychological debriefing
As emergency providers experienced in peer support (MOT) and healthcare debriefing (WE), we feel compelled to respond to Teodorczuk and Kelly.1 We agree with the underlying arguments for providing psychological supports to medical students but disagree with flawed claims that psychological debriefing (PD) causes harm. PD originated when Dr Jeffrey Mitchell designed Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) as a package of interventions for emerg…
‘How can we help the students learn?’ A grounded theory study of simulated participants as educators
PURPOSE: Despite the demonstrated value of simulated participant (SP) feedback, we are only beginning to understand how to optimize SPs' feedback practices for communication skills and strengthen their role as educators. SPs portray roles and engage in feedback practices to support simulated-based learning for communication skills training. SPs come to their role with diverse experiences, knowledge, and training, such as (a) professional actors, …
Training simulated participants for role portrayal and feedback practices in communication skills training
BACKGROUND: Providing feedback is a key aspect of simulated participants' (SPs) educational work. In teaching contexts, the ability to provide feedback to learners is central to their role. Suboptimal feedback practices may deny learners the valuable feedback they need to learn and improve. This scoping review systematically maps the evidence related to SPs' role as educators and identifies how SPs prepare for their role and feedback practices. M…
‘They mirror what they see’
PURPOSE: In simulation-based education (SBE), educators integrate their professional experiences to prepare learners for real world practice and may embed unproductive stereotypical biases. Although learning culture influences educational practices, the interactions between professional culture and SBE remain less clear. This study explores how professional learning culture informs simulation practices in healthcare, law, teacher training and par…
Widening Participation in Scotland 1997–2021
This article sets out and critically analyses the state of current knowledge on Widening Participation at higher education institutions in Scotland and sets forth avenues for further research. Through a semi‐systematic review of the literature, six discrete but overlapping themes relating to Widening Participation are identified, namely, (1) factors affecting the decision to apply to university, (2) the transition from high school or further educ…
Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences (3 works) · Institution (3 works) · Medical education (3 works)