Rebecca L Volpe

Biographic Data

ID7519462
NAMERebecca L Volpe
GIVEN NAMESRebecca L
FAMILY NAMEVolpe
SIGNATUREVOLPE R L
AFFILIATIONSPennsylvania State University
ORCID0000-0003-3406-9498
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • A New Construct in Undergraduate Medical Education Health Humanities Outcomes

    Open AccessRebecca L Volpe, Bernice L Hausman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Humanities2024

  • The Prism Model for Integrating the Arts and Humanities Into Medical Education

    Tracy Moniz, Maryam Golafshani et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2021

  • Negotiating professional identity formation in medicine as an ‘outsider’

    Open AccessRebecca L Volpe, Margaret Hopkins et al.ARTICLESSM - Qualitative Research in…2021

    While the U.S. general population is increasingly diverse, less than 15% of medical school matriculants are from minoritized backgrounds. Unfortunately, early evidence suggests that the process of professional identity formation (PIF) for minoritized medical students is more difficult than that of their counterparts. We conducted serial, semi-structured interviews to learn about the experiences of minoritized medical students. We asked: How do pa…

  • Investigating structural inequities in the culture of medicine

    Open AccessRebecca L Volpe, Margaret HopkinsARTICLEMedical Education2020

    Drawing on Watling et al's exploration of culture in medical education, this commentary explores how historical and structural inequities impact on professional identity formation

  • Temporizing after Spinal Cord Injury

    Open AccessRebecca L Volpe, Joshua S Crites et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2015

    Mr. C is a twenty‐two‐year‐old who was flown to a level‐1 trauma center after diving headfirst into shallow water. Prior to this accident, he was in excellent health. At the scene, he had been conscious but was paralyzed and had no sensation below his neck. The emergency medical services team immobilized Mr. C's neck with a cervical collar and intubated him for airway protection before transport. As Mr. C's medical care proceeds, he expresses a d…

  • Googling a Patient

    Open AccessRebecca L Volpe, Rebecca Volpe et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2013

  • Exploring the Limits of Autonomy

    Open AccessRebecca L Volpe, Benjamin H Levi et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2012

    Mr. Galanas, an eighty‐six‐year‐old man, intentionally shot himself in the chest and abdomen. Surprisingly, the bullet damaged only his distal pancreas and part of his colon, requiring a diverting colostomy to prevent leakage of bowel fluids into his abdomen. After being admitted, he lies intubated in the intensive care unit awaiting surgery to repair his colon. He is responsive but does not demonstrate clear decision‐making capacity. He grudging…

  • Hidden Empirical Research Ethics

    Open AccessJames M Dubois, Rebecca L Volpe et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2008

    We hypothesized that a significant amount of empirical data pertinent to research ethics is currently inaccessible to research ethics committee or Institutuional Review Board (IRB) members for at least three reasons: It is published in non-ethics journals; articles are not adequately indexed using ethics-related keywords; and articles do not discuss the ethical significance of their data. We reviewed all articles from three health journals from J…