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Alan Bleakley is affiliated with Plymouth University in the United Kingdom. Their academic contributions primarily focus on the field of medicine, with a specific emphasis on psychiatry and mental health, public health, environmental and occupational health, family practice, general health professions, and philosophy.

Their research covers several main topics, including:

  • Empathy and Medical Education
  • Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Cultural Competency in Health Care
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Medical Teacher
  • Advances in Health Sciences Education
  • Medical Education
  • Journal of Patient Safety
  • Bioethics News

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Alan Bleakley highlight their research interests and include:

  • "Embracing ambiguity: Curriculum design and activity theory," 2020, Medical Teacher
  • "Re-visioning clinical reasoning, or stepping out from the skull," 2020, Medical Teacher
  • "Embracing the collective through medical education," 2020, Advances in Health Sciences Education
  • "Where medical education meets artificial intelligence: 'Does technology care?'," 2020, Medical Education
  • "Empathy across cultures - one size does not fit all: from the ego-logical to the eco-logical of relational empathy," 2022, Advances in Health Sciences Education

Alan Bleakley has collaborated with several frequent coauthors, including:

  • Anneke G. van der Niet
  • Quentin Eichbaum
  • Charles-Antoine Barbeau-Meunier
  • Mary T. White
  • Revathi Ravi

Best Publications

  • Stories as data, data as stories: making sense of narrative inquiry in clinical education*

    Alan Bleakley

  • Broadening conceptions of learning in medical education: the message from teamworking

    Alan Bleakley

  • The transition from medical student to junior doctor: today’s experiences of Tomorrow’s Doctors

    Nicola Brennan;Oonagh Corrigan;Jon Allard;Julian Archer

  • From reflective practice to holistic reflexivity

    Alan Bleakley

  • An open letter to The BMJ editors on qualitative research

    Trisha Greenhalgh;Ellen Annandale;Richard Ashcroft;James Barlow

  • Medical Education for the Future: Identity, Power and Location

    Alan Bleakley;John Bligh;Julie Brice Browne

  • Students learning from patients: let's get real in medical education.

    Alan Bleakley;John Bligh

  • Thinking the post‐colonial in medical education

    Alan Bleakley;Julie Brice;John Bligh

  • Medical Humanities and Medical Education: How the medical humanities can shape better doctors

    Alan Bleakley

  • Improving teamwork climate in operating theatres: the shift from multiprofessionalismto interprofessionalism.

    Alan Bleakley;James Boyden;Adrian Hobbs;Linda Walsh

  • Writing With Invisible Ink: Narrative, confessionalism and reflective practice

    Alan Bleakley

  • Pre-registration house officers and ward-based learning: a 'new apprenticeship' model.

    Alan Bleakley

  • Emotional intelligence medical education: measuring the unmeasurable?

    Natalie J. Lewis;Charlotte E. Rees;J. Nicky Hudson;Alan Bleakley

  • Blunting Occam's razor: aligning medical education with studies of complexity

    Alan Bleakley

  • Gender matters in medical education

    Alan Bleakley

  • Making sense of clinical reasoning: judgement and the evidence of the senses

    Alan Bleakley;Richard Farrow;David Gould;Robert Marshall

  • Distributing menus to hungry learners: can learning by simulation become simulation of learning?

    John Bligh;Alan Bleakley

  • Working in “teams” in an era of “liquid” healthcare: What is the use of theory?

    Alan Bleakley

  • The Animalizing Imagination: Totemism, Textuality and Ecocriticism

    Alan Bleakley

  • Where medical education meets artificial intelligence: 'Does technology care?'

    Anneke G. van der Niet;Anneke G. van der Niet;Alan Bleakley

  • Pre-surgery briefings and safety climate in the operating theatre

    Jon Allard;Alan Bleakley;Adrian Hobbs;Lee Coombes

Frequent Co-Authors

John Bligh
John Bligh University Hospital of Wales
Steven Cummins
Steven Cummins London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Fiona Stevenson
Fiona Stevenson University College London
Nicholas Mays
Nicholas Mays London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Lucy Gilson
Lucy Gilson University of Cape Town
Göran Tomson
Göran Tomson Karolinska Institute
Ayelet Kuper
Ayelet Kuper University of Toronto
Janice M. Morse
Janice M. Morse University of Utah
Trisha Greenhalgh
Trisha Greenhalgh University of Oxford
Sharon E. Straus
Sharon E. Straus University of Toronto

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