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- alan.bleakley@plymouth.ac.uk
Profiles
Professor Alan Bleakley
Emeritus Professor
Faculty of Health
Key publications
2011 'Does undergraduate curriculum design make
a difference to readiness to practice as a
junior doctor?' Medical Teacher 33, (6) 459-467 , DOI Open access
2011 'Pre-surgery briefings and safety climate in the operating theatre' BMJ Qual Saf 20, (8) 711-717 , DOI
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2020 'Embracing the collective through medical education' Advances in Health Sciences Education 25, (5) 1177-1189 , DOI
2017 'Bad faith, medical education, and post-truth' Perspectives on Medical Education 7, (1) 3-4 , DOI
2013 'Lost in translation. Homer in English; the patient's story in medicine' Med Humanit 39, (1) 47-52 , DOI
2013 ''Achieving ensemble': communication in orthopaedic surgical teams and the development of situation awareness--an observational study using live videotaped examples' Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 18, (1) 33-56 , DOI
2013 'Can the science of communication inform the art of the medical humanities?' Med Educ 47, (2) 126-133 , DOI
2013 'The dislocation of medical dominance: making space for interprofessional care' Journal of Interprofessional Care
2013 'Working in "teams" in an era of "liquid" healthcare: what is the use of theory?' J Interprof Care 27, (1) 18-26 , DOI
2012 'Writing out prescriptions: hyperrealism and the chemical regulation of mood' Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 17, (5) 779-790 , DOI
2012 'A Long and Winding Road: Improving Team Practices in the Operating Theatre' Technic: The Journal of the College of Operating Department Practitioners
2012 'The curriculum is dead! Long live the curriculum! Designing an undergraduate medicine and surgery curriculum for the future' Med Teach 34, (7) 543-547 , DOI
2012 'The Humanities Offer a Democratizing Force for Medical Culture' Ars Medica 9, (1) 1-6
2012 'The proof is in the pudding: putting Actor-Network-Theory to work in medical education' Med Teach 34, (6) 462-467 , DOI
2012 'Towards culture change in the operating theatre: embedding a complex educational intervention to improve teamwork climate' Med Teach 34, (9) e635-e640 , DOI
2011 'Misdiagnosis: analysis based on case record review with proposals aimed to improve diagnostic processes' CLINICAL MEDICINE 11, (6) 626-627 , DOI
2011 '"Do you really need to ask me that now?": a self-audit of interruptions to the 'shop floor' practice of a UK consultant emergency physician' Emerg Med J 29, (11) 872-876 , DOI
2011 'Pre-surgery briefings and safety climate in the operating theatre' BMJ Qual Saf 20, (8) 711-717 , DOI
2011 'Does undergraduate curriculum design make
a difference to readiness to practice as a
junior doctor?' Medical Teacher 33, (6) 459-467 , DOI Open access
2011 'Sing, Muse: songs in Homer and in hospital' J Medical Ethics: Medical Humanities 37, 27-33 , DOI
2010 'Blunting Occam's razor: aligning medical education with studies of complexity' J Eval Clin Pract 16, (4) 849-855 , DOI
2010 'The transition from medical student to junior doctor: today's experiences of Tomorrow's Doctors' Med Educ 44, (5) 449-458 , DOI Open access
2010 'Blunting Occam’s Razor: Medical Education Needs Powerful and Complex Learning Theories' Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 16,
2010 'Social comparison, peer learning and democracy in medical education' Med Teach 32, (11) 878-879 , DOI
2009 'The death of Hector: pity in Homer, empathy in medical education' MEDICAL HUMANITIES 35, (1) 7-12 , DOI
2009 'Quality in medical education' ASME Publications
2008 'Students learning from patients: let's get real in medical education' Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 13, (1) 89-107 , DOI
2008 'Developing ‘thinking as a doctor’: What is the Influence of other healthcare professionals upon the early learning of medical students?' International Journal of the Humanities 6, 65-74
2008 'Putting it bluntly: communication skills in the Iliad' Journal of Medical Ethics: Med Humanit 34, 30-34
2008 'Students learning from patients: let’s get real in medical education' Advances in Health Sciences Education 13, 89-107
2008 'The Medical Humanities Today: Humane health care or tool of governance?' Medical Humanities 29, 1-4
2007 '"Who's on the team today?" The status of briefing amongst operating theatre practitioners in one UK hospital' J Interprof Care 21, (2) 189-206 , DOI
2007 'Looking forward-looking back: aspects of the contemporary debate about teaching and learning medicine' Med Teach 29, (2-3) 79-82 , DOI
2007 'Toward an aesthetic medicine: developing a core medical humanities undergraduate curriculum' Journal of Medical Humanties 27, 197-213 , DOI
2007 'Toward an aesthetic medicine: developing a core medical humanities undergraduate curriculum' Journal of Medical Humanties 27, 197-213 , DOI
2007 'Looking forward - looking back: aspects of the contemporary debate about teaching and learning medicine - Commentary' Medical Teacher 29, (2-3) 79-82
2007 'Pedagogy and the university: critical theory and practice' STUDIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 32, (4) 527-529 , DOI
2007 'The realities of change in higher education: interventions to promote learning and teaching' STUDIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 32, (2) 281-283
2007 'The realities of change in higher education: interventions to promote learning and teaching' Studies in Higher Education 32, (2) 281-283
2006 'Distributing menus to hungry learners: can learning by simulation become simulation of learning?' Med Teach 28, (7) 606-613 , DOI
2006 'Improving teamwork climate in operating theatres: the shift from multiprofessionalismto interprofessionalism' J Interprof Care 20, (5) 461-470 , DOI
2006 'A common body of care: the ethics and politics of teamwork in the operating theater are inseparable' J Med Philos 31, (3) 305-322 , DOI
2006 'Creative knowledge environments: the influences on creativity in research and innovation' STUDIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 31, (3) 393-395
2006 'Broadening conceptions of learning in medical education: the message from teamworking' Medical Education 40, (2) 150-157 , DOI
2006 'Broadening conceptions of learning in medical education: the message from teamworking' Medical Education 40 (2), 150-157 , DOI
2006 'You are who I say you are: the rhetorical construction of identity in the operating theatre' Journal of Workplace Learning 18 (7/8), 414-425 , DOI
2006 'You are who I say you are: the rhetorical construction of identity in the operating theatre' Journal of Workplace Learning 18, (7/8) 414-425 , DOI
2006 'A common body of care: The ethics and politics of teamwork in the operating theater are inseparable' Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 31, (3) 305-322
2006 'Creative knowledge environments: the influences on creativity in research and innovation' Studies in Higher Education 31, (3) 393-395
2006 'Distributing menus to hungry learners: can learning by simulation become simulation of learning?' Medical Teacher 28, (7) 606-613
2005 'Emotional intelligence medical education: measuring the unmeasurable?' Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 10, (4) 339-355 , DOI
2005 'Stories as data, data as stories: making sense of narrative inquiry in clinical education' Med Educ 39, (5) 534-540 , DOI
2005 'Close call reporting' Health Care Risk Report 11, 18-19
2005 'Emotional intelligence medical education: Measuring the unmeasurable?' Advances in Health Sciences Education 10, (4) 339-355
2005 'Stories as data, data as stories: making sense of narrative inquiry in clinical education' Medical Education 39, (5) 534-540
2004 ''Your creativity or mine?': a typology of creativities in higher education and the value of a pluralistic approach' TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION 9, (4) 463-475 , DOI
2004 'Safety in operating theatres: Improving teamwork through team resource management' Journal of Workplace Learning: Employee Counselling Today 16, (1) 83-91
2003 'For a radical higher education: after post-modernism' STUDIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 28, (3) 359-361
2003 ''Good' and 'Poor' communication in an OSCE: education or training?' Med Educ 37, (3) 186-187 , DOI
2003 'Making sense of clinical reasoning: Judgement and the evidence of the senses' Medical Education 37 (6), 544-552 , DOI
2003 'Making sense of clinical reasoning: Judgement and the evidence of the senses ' Medical Education 37, (6) 544-552 , DOI
2003 'Assessment: case studies, experience and practice from higher education' STUDIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 28, (2) 234-235
2003 'Distributed learning: social and cultural approaches to practice' Studies in Higher Education 28, (1) 107-108
2003 'Distributed learning: social and cultural approaches to practice' STUDIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 28, (1) 107-108
2003 'Learning how to see: doctors making judgements in the visual domain' Journal of Workplace Learning: Employee Counselling Today 7, (15) 301-306
2003 'Social construction in context' JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY & APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 13, (5) 409-411 , DOI
2002 'The Art and politics of college teaching: a practical guide for the beginning professor' STUDIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 27, (1) 124-126
2002 'Pre-registration house officers and ward-based learning: A 'new apprenticeship' model' Medical Education 36, (1) 9-15
2002 'Pre-registration house officers and ward-based learning: a 'new apprenticeship' model' Med Educ 36, (1) 9-15 , DOI
2002 'The Art and politics of college teaching: a practical guide for the beginning professor' Studies in Higher Education 27, (1) 124-126
2001 'Making visual judgements' Virchows Archiv: an international journal of pathology (201) 50A-50A
1999 'From reflective practice to holistic reflexivity' STUDIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 24, (3) 315-330 , DOI
Reviews
2010 'Book review of 'Rethinking contexts for learning and teaching: communities, activities and networks'' STUD HIGH EDUC 35, (4) 483-485
Letters
Books
Bates V; Goodman S; Bleakley A 2013 Medicine, Health, and the Arts: Approaches to Medical Humanities. Routledge
2012 Striking Blows for Drummers and Other Poems. Dartington Acts of Language
Chapters
2013 'Quality in Medical Education' Understanding Medical Education: Evidence, Theory and Practice Oxford Wiley Blackwell
2013 'The Medical Humanities in Medical Education: Toward a Medical Aesthetics of Resistance' Health and Humanities Reader. Chapel Hill, NJ Rutgers University Press
2013 'The medical humanities past, present and future: a democratizing force for medical culture?' in Bates V; Goodman S; Bleakley A Medicine, Health, and the Arts: Approaches to Medical Humanities. London Routledge
2012 'Establishing Patient Safety Nets: How Actor-Network-Theory Can Inform Clinical Education Research' in Cook V; Daly C; Newman M Work-based Learning in Clinical Settings - insights from socio-cultural perspectives Oxford Radcliffe Medical
2011 '"Becoming" a Medical Professional' in Scanlon L "Becoming" a Professional Springer Science+Business Media
2010 'Learning and identity construction in the professional world of the surgeon' in Kneebone HFR Surgical education in theoretical perspective: enhancing learning, teaching, practice and research. Springer
2010 'Quality in medical education' in Swanick T Understanding medical education Oxford Wiley Blackwell
2007 'Surgical team self-review: Enhancing organisational learning in the Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust' in Cook MJ; Noyes JM; Masakowski Y Decision making in complex environments Ashgate Publishing
2006 'Towards an aesthetics of healthcare practice: learning the art of clinical judgement' Theory and Practice in Nursing Education Aarhus, Denmark University of Aarhus
2004 'Doctors as connoisseurs of educational images: aesthetic and ethical self-forming through medical education' in Satterthwaite J; Atkinson E; Martin W Educational Counter Cultures Trentham Books Limited
2002 'Re-positioning the Rat Man: Animal Rites in the Cyborg Age' Psychology at the Threshold Santa Barbara, CA Pacifica Graduate Institute
1998 'Learning as an aesthetic practice' in Brown S Motivating Students London Kogan Page
1997 'Sublime Moments in the Body of the Double Pelican' On the Sublime in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy London Whurr