Research & Publications

The IPEP leadership team and IPEP faculty are involved in a wide range of research projects aimed at documenting the qualitative and quantitative impact of our work. These research efforts have led to several recent publications which, along with case commentaries and papers which outline our pedagogical approach to relational learning, are listed below.

Please Note: The links to these publications will open a new window.

Key IPEP Publications

Calhoun AW, Rider EA, Meyer EC, Lamiani G, Truog RD. Assessment of communication skills and self-appraisal in the simulated environment: Feasibility of multi-rater feedback with gap analysis. Simulation in Healthcare, 2009; 4(1):22-29.

Lamiani G, Meyer EC, Browning DM, Moja EA. Tra scienza e sofferenza: Le conversazioni difficili in sanita. Recenti Progressi in Medicina, 2009; 100(5);239-246.

Lamiani G, Meyer EC, Browning DB, Brodsky D, Todres ID. Analysis of enacted difficult conversations in neonatal intensive care. Journal of Perinatology, 2009; 4:310-316.

Meyer EC, Sellers DE, Browning DM, McGuffie K, Solomon MZ, Truog RD. Difficult conversations: Improving communication skills and relational abilities in health care. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2009; 10(3):352-359.

Waisel DB, Simon R, Truog RD, Baboolal H, Raemer DB. Anesthesiologist management of perioperative do-not-resuscitate orders: a simulation-based experiment. Simulation in Healthcare, 2009; 4(2):70-76.

Waisel DB, Lamiani G, Sandrock NJ, Pascucci R, Truog RD, Meyer EC. Anesthesiology trainees face ethical, practical and relational challenges in obtaining informed consent, Anesthesiology, 2009; 110:480-486.

Lamiani G, Meyer EC, Rider EA, Browning DM, Vegni E, Moja EA, Truog RD. Assumptions, blind spots and paradoxes in patient-centered care: An action research experience between American and Italian Health Care Professionals. Medical Education, 2008; 42: 712-720.

Browning DM, Meyer EC, Brodsky DD, Truog RD Reflections on love, fear, and specializing in the impossible. Journal of Clinical Ethics 2007; 18(4):373-6.

Browning DM, Meyer EC, Truog RD, Solomon MZ. Difficult conversations in health care: Cultivating relational learning to address the hidden curriculum. Academic Medicine, 2007; 82(9): 905-913. [PDF of article]

Truog RD, Christ G, Browning DM, Meyer EC. Sudden traumatic death in children: "We did everything, but your child didn't survive". JAMA 2006; 295(22):2646-2654.

IPEP Leadership Team Publications

David M. Browning, MSW, BCD, FT

Browning DM & Solomon MZ. Relational learning in pediatric palliative care: Transformative education and the culture of medicine. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America 2006;15(3):326-34.
Browning DM, Solomon MZ. The Initiative for Pediatric Palliative Care: An interdisciplinary educational approach for health care professionals. Journal of Pediatric Nursing 2005;20(5):326-34.
Browning DM. To show our humanness: Relational and communicative competence in pediatric palliative care. Bioethics Forum 2003;18(3/4):23-8. [PDF of article]
Browning DM. Fragments of love: Explorations in the ethnography of suffering and professional caregiving. Living with Dying: A Handbook for End-of-Life Healthcare Practitioners. Berzoff J and Silverman P (Eds.), Columbia University Press: New York, NY, 2004.
Browning DM. Pathos, paradox and poetics: Grounded theory and bereavement. Smith College Studies in Social Work 2003;73(3):325-36.
Browning DM. Saying goodbye, saying hello: A grief sojourn. Journal of Palliative Medicine 2002:5(3):465-9.

Elaine C. Meyer, PhD, RN

Meyer EC, Burns JP, Griffith J, Truog RT. Parental perspectives on end-of-life care in the pediatric intensive care unit. Critical Care Medicine 2002;30(1):226-231.
Curley MAQ. & Meyer EC. Parental experience of highly technical therapy: Survivors and non-survivors of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2003:4(2):214-219.
Meyer EC, Ritholz MD, Burns JP, Truog RD. Improving the quality of end-of-life care in the pediatric intensive care unit: Parents’ priorities and recommendations. Pediatrics 2006:117(3):649-657.
Robinson MR, Thiel MM, Backus MM, Meyer EC. Matters of spirituality at end of life in the pediatric intensive care unit. Pediatrics 2006:118(3):e719-e729.

Elizabeth A. Rider, MSW, MD

Rider EA, Nawotniak RH, Smith GD. A Practical Guide to Teaching and Assessing the ACGME Core Competencies. Marblehead, MA: HCPro, Inc., 2007.
Rider EA, Brashers V. Team-based learning: a strategy for interprofessional collaboration. Medical Education 2006 May; 40(5):486-7.
Rider EA, Keefer CH. Communication skills competencies: definitions and a teaching toolbox. Medical Education 2006 Jul; 40(7):624-9. [PDF of article]
Rider EA, Hinrichs MM, Lown BA. A model for communication skills assessment across the undergraduate curriculum. Medical Teacher 2006 Aug; 28(5):e127-34.
Rider EA, Volkan K, Hafler JP. Pediatric residents' perceptions of communication competencies: Implications for teaching. Medical Teacher 2008; 30(7):e208-17.
Rider EA. Communicating with children and families. In: Rudolph C, Lister G, Gershon A, First L, Rudolph A, eds. Rudolph’s Pediatrics, 22nd edition. NY: McGraw-Hill. In press.
Rider EA. The examination (A teaching narrative on communicating with and examining young children in the pediatric visit). Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 2005;159:414.

Robert D. Truog, MD

Truog RD. Consent for organ donation--balancing conflicting ethical obligations. N Engl J Med 2008;358(12):1209-1211.
Truog RD, Miller FG. The dead donor rule and organ transplantation. N Engl J Med 2008;359(7):674-675.
Truog RD, Campbell ML, Curtis JR et al. Recommendations for end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: A consensus statement by the American Academy of Critical Care Medicine. Crit Care Med 2008;36(3):953-963.
Truog RD. Tackling medical futility in Texas. N Engl J Med 2007;357(1):1-3.
Truog RD. The ethics of organ donation by living donors. N Engl J Med 2005;353(5):444-446.

Top of Page