Martina Kelly

Biographic Data

ID9475153
NAMEMartina Kelly
GIVEN NAMESMartina
FAMILY NAMEKelly
SIGNATUREKELLY M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Calgary
ORCID0000-0002-8763-7092
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS11
WORKS AS AUTHOR15
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Grim fairy tales of curriculum change in medical education

    Open AccessRachel Ellaway, T R Wyatt et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2026

    Fairy tales play a significant role in shaping cultural norms and adult behaviours. They imprint values and moral norms on children and adults alike by eliciting emotions to characters that uphold or break these norms, and they set standards for socially appropriate behaviour. In this article, we use the fairy tale idiom to retell the story of curriculum change from being an activity in medical education where everyone works together in harmony a…

  • Myths of contestation in the medical education curriculum

    Open AccessRachel Ellaway, Martina Kelly et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2026

  • “Everyone here [is] a customer”

    Open AccessMegan Sampson, Mandi Gray et al.ARTICLECritical Social Work2024

    This article examines the implementation of a harm reduction pilot project in a Canadian permanent supportive living facility for older people with experiences of homelessness (OPEH). Nearing the conclusion of the intervention, two nominal group technique (NGT) sessions were facilitated to identify key learnings from the project. The key learnings informed a secondary analysis of qualitative interviews with stakeholders from health and social ser…

  • A Phenomenological Exploration of Physicians’ Moral Distress

    Open AccessDerek C Chang, Martina Kelly et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2024

  • The tip of the iceberg

    Open AccessMartina Kelly, Lyn Power et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2024

  • Clarity without simplicity

    Open AccessMartina Kelly, Megan E L BrownARTICLEMedical Education2024

    Kelly and Brown outline how research into lived experience is different, shining value on subjectivity by being evocative while promoting visceral, felt responses, and enabling surprise

  • Striking fear into students’ hearts

    Open AccessTim Dornan, Dakota Armour et al.ARTICLEMedical Teacher2024

    PURPOSE: Undergraduate medical education (UGME) has to prepare students to do safety-critical work (notably, to prescribe) immediately after qualifying. Despite hospitals depending on them, medical graduates consistently report feeling unprepared to prescribe and they sometimes harm patients. Research clarifying how to prepare students better could improve healthcare safety. Our aim was to explore how students experienced preparing for one of the…

  • Moral Horizons of Pain

    Pratim Sengupta, Ariel Ducey et al.ARTICLECanadian Theatre Review2023

  • Early generalist placements are associated with family medicine career choice

    Open AccessAjay Shah, Adi Gasner et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2021

  • When I say … pedagogy

    Open AccessTim Dornan, Martina KellyARTICLEMedical Education2021

    Dornan and Kelly explain why pedagogy is best thought of as "teachers forming educative relationships that create zones of proximal development in which students can learn to the best of their abilities"

  • Being Vulnerable

    Martina Kelly, Lara Nixon et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020

    PURPOSE: Effective nonverbal communication is associated with empathic behavior and improved patient outcomes. Touch, as a form of nonverbal communication, is relatively unexplored in medical education. This study sought to gain in-depth insights into physicians' experiences communicating with touch and to examine how these insights could inform communication skills curricula. METHOD: Collaborative inquiry, a form of action research, was used. Si…

  • Medical teachers’ discursive positioning of doctors in relation to patients

    Open AccessTim Dornan, Selina Roy Bentley et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2020

  • Embodying empathy

    Open AccessMartina Kelly, Clark Svrcek et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2020

  • Experience of Touch in Health Care

    Open AccessMartina Ann Kelly, Martina Kelly et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2018Cited by: 11References: 70

    Touch mediates health professionals' interactions with patients. Different professionals have reported their practices but what is currently lacking is a well-theorized, interprofessional synthesis. We systematically searched eight databases, identified 41 studies in seven professions-nursing (27), medicine (4), physiotherapy (5), osteopathy (1), counseling (2), psychotherapy (1), dentistry (1)-and completed a meta-ethnographic line-of-argument s…

  • Abstracts, Oral

    Open AccessJoy de Vries, Esther Helmich et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2014

    Free accessAbstractFirst published online February 1, 2014Abstracts, Oral: Listed Alphabetically by Author's Last NameAll Articleshttps://doi.org/10.1177/160940691401300128