Professor Lynn Monrouxe
With a background in psychology and cognitive linguistics, she has developed an international reputation for high-quality research in the field of healthcare professions’ education and presently has over 100 peer-reviewed articles in high-ranking medical education and social sciences journals and books. She has examined a range of teaching, learning, and professionalism-related issues around undergraduate and postgraduate work-based learning, including:
o Bedside teaching and supervised learning practices
o The hidden curriculum and its impact on learners (socialization practices)
o Professional identity formation
o Leadership and followership
o Feedback practices
o Passing underperformance (‘failing to fail’)
o Patient involvement
o Ethical and clinical reasoning
o Negative behaviors during workplace learning (e.g. student abuse)
o Emotional distress, burnout, and resilience
o Retention and success
o Transitions into practice
o Tolerance of ambiguity/uncertainty
o Curriculum evaluation for research translation (Kirkpatrick, Realist methods)
o Cross-cultural perspectives
She has pioneered the solicited audio diary method in medical education research and publishes theory-method advancements. She has led on the most comprehensive video-ethnographic study of bedside teaching to date. She co-leads a program of research (12-years to date) on healthcare professionalism resulting in a co-authored textbook for the healthcare professions (Monrouxe LV & Rees CE 2017). Relatedly, she is presently leading on an international questionnaire study examining the impact of culture on medical students’ acts of resistance during professionalism dilemmas (23 countries, 70 collaborators internationally: 2017–2019). She is a co-founding member of the Studies in Ethical and Clinical Reasoning in Asia (SECRA) group and has led the two Symposia to date (2016 in Sri Lanka and 2017 in Taiwan). She invests time in translating he research into educational policy and practice (e.g. General Medical Council and Academy of Medical Royal Colleges) and public engagement (e.g. via various print, internet, local/national radio and national TV media, including the UK’s’ BBC Today Programme and BBC Breakfast Time). She acts as advisor/consultant on a range of associated research projects internationally.
