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Vicki R. LeBlanc

Vicki R. LeBlanc

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
40
Citations
6913
World Ranking
5351
National Ranking
317

Overview

Vicki R. LeBlanc is affiliated with the University of Ottawa in Canada and has a research focus primarily in Medicine and Health Professions. The subfields in which they have contributed include Physiology, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Sociology and Political Science, and Family Practice.

The main topics addressed in their work encompass Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare, Innovations in Medical Education, Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout, Emotional Labor in Professions, Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills, Empathy and Medical Education, and Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences.

Their recent published papers highlight this range of interests and include:

  • Emotions in simulation-based education: friends or foes of learning? (2022), published in Advances in Simulation
  • Wrestling With the Invincibility Myth: Exploring Physicians' Resistance to Wellness and Resilience-Building Interventions (2021), published in Academic Medicine
  • Perceived organizational support and emotional labour among police communicators: what can organizational context tell us about posttraumatic stress? (2021), published in International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health
  • The "Managed" or Damaged Heart? Emotional Labor, Gender, and Posttraumatic Stressors Predict Workplace Event-Related Acute Changes in Cortisol, Oxytocin, and Heart Rate Variability (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • The impact of Stress Management and Resilience Training (SMART) on academic physicians during the implementation of a new Health Information System: An exploratory randomized controlled trial (2022), published in PLoS ONE

Frequent publication venues for the scientist's work include Advances in Simulation, Academic Medicine, International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, PLoS ONE, and Psychology Health & Medicine.

Frequent coauthors associated with their work include Edward G. Spilg, Arija Birze, Cheryl Regehr, Elise Paradis, and Gillian Einstein.

Best Publications

  • The effects of acute stress on performance: implications for health professions education.

    Vicki R. LeBlanc

  • Teaching suturing and knot-tying skills to medical students: A randomized controlled study comparing computer-based video instruction and (concurrent and summary) expert feedback

    George J. Xeroulis;Jason Park;Carol-Anne Moulton;Richard K. Reznick

  • Interventions to reduce the consequences of stress in physicians: a review and meta-analysis.

    Cheryl Regehr;Dylan Glancy;Annabel Pitts;Vicki R. LeBlanc

  • Predictable Chaos: A Review of the Effects of Emotions on Attention, Memory and Decision Making.

    Vicki R. LeBlanc;Vicki R. LeBlanc;Meghan M. McConnell;Sandra D. Monteiro

  • Residents feel unprepared and unsupervised as leaders of cardiac arrest teams in teaching hospitals: a survey of internal medicine residents.

    Chris W. Hayes;Augustine Rhee;Michael E. Detsky;Vicki R. Leblanc

  • Teaching from the clinical reasoning literature: combined reasoning strategies help novice diagnosticians overcome misleading information.

    Kevin W Eva;Rose M Hatala;Vicki R LeBlanc;Lee R Brooks

  • Design of simulation-based medical education and advantages and disadvantages of in situ simulation versus off-site simulation

    Jette Led Sørensen;Doris Østergaard;Vicki LeBlanc;Bent Ottesen

  • Threat and challenge: cognitive appraisal and stress responses in simulated trauma resuscitations.

    Adrian Harvey;Avery B Nathens;Glen Bandiera;Vicki R LeBlanc

  • Paramedic performance in calculating drug dosages following stressful scenarios in a human patient simulator.

    Vicki R. LeBlanc;Russell D. MacDonald;Brad McArthur;Kevin King

  • Impact of stress on resident performance in simulated trauma scenarios.

    Adrian Harvey;Glen Bandiera;Avery B. Nathens;Vicki R. LeBlanc

  • The impact of stress on paramedic performance during simulated critical events.

    Vicki R LeBlanc;Cheryl Regehr;Walter Tavares;Aristathemos K. Scott

  • Le raisonnement clinique : données issues de la recherche et implications pour l'enseignement

    Mathieu Nendaz;Bernard Charlin;Vicki Leblanc;Georges Bordage

  • Surgical skill acquisition with self-directed practice using computer-based video training

    Nathan Jowett;Vicki LeBlanc;George Xeroulis;Helen MacRae

  • A preliminary study in using virtual reality to train dental students

    Vicki R. LeBlanc;Alice Urbankova;Farhad Hadavi;Richard M. Lichtenthal

  • The relationship between coping styles, performance, and responses to stressful scenarios in police recruits.

    Vicki R. LeBlanc;Cheryl Regehr;R. Blake Jelley;Irene Barath

  • Believing is seeing: the influence of a diagnostic hypothesis on the interpretation of clinical features.

    Vicki R. Leblanc;Lee R. Brooks;Geoffrey R. Norman

  • Confidence and Professional Judgment in Assessing Children's Risk of Abuse.

    Cheryl Regehr;Marion Bogo;Aron Shlonsky;Vicki LeBlanc

  • Acute stress and performance in police recruits

    Cheryl Regehr;Vicki LeBlanc;R. Blake Jelley;Irene Barath

  • On the Difficulty of Noticing Obvious Features in Patient Appearance

    Lee R. Brooks;Vicki R. LeBlanc;Geoffrey R. Norman

  • Simulation-based multiprofessional obstetric anaesthesia training conducted in situ versus off-site leads to similar individual and team outcomes: a randomised educational trial

    Jette Led Sørensen;Cees van der Vleuten;Susanne Rosthøj;Doris Østergaard

  • The study of factors affecting human and systems performance in healthcare using simulation.

    Vicki R. LeBlanc;Tanja Manser;Matthew B. Weinger;David Musson

Frequent Co-Authors

Cheryl Regehr
Cheryl Regehr University of Toronto
Marion Bogo
Marion Bogo University of Toronto
Adam Dubrowski
Adam Dubrowski University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Lee R. Brooks
Lee R. Brooks McMaster University
Scott Reeves
Scott Reeves St George's, University of London
Roger Kneebone
Roger Kneebone Imperial College London
Debra Nestel
Debra Nestel Monash University
Cees P. M. van der Vleuten
Cees P. M. van der Vleuten Maastricht University
Kevin W. Eva
Kevin W. Eva University of British Columbia
Rose Hatala
Rose Hatala University of British Columbia

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