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.

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Key IPEP Publications

Brown SD, Lehman CD, Truog RD, Browning DM, , Gallagher TH. Stepping out further from the shadows: Disclosure of harmful radiologic errors to patients. Radiology 2012; 262:381-386.

Lamiani G, Leone D, Meyer EC, Moja EA. How Italian students learn to become physicians: A qualitative study of the hidden curriculum. Medical Teacher 2011; 33(12):989-996.

Lamiani G, Meyer EC, Leone D, Vegni E, Browning DM, Rider EA, Truog RD, Moja EA. Cross-cultural adaptation of an innovative approach to learning about difficult conversations in healthcare. Medical Teacher 2011; 33(2): e57-e64.

Browning DM, Comeau M, Kishimoto S, Varrin P, Ward E, Rider EA, Meyer EC. Parents and interprofessional learning in pediatrics: Integrating personhood and practice. Journal of Interprofessional Care 2010; Early Online, 1–2.

Browning DM, Comeau M, Kishimoto S, Varrin P, Ward E, Rider EA, Meyer EC. Parents as practitioners in pediatrics. Medical Teacher 2010; 32(7).

Calhoun AW, Rider EA, Peterson, E, Meyer EC. Multi-rater feedback with gap analysis: an innovative means to assess communication skill and self-insight. Patient Education and Counseling 2010; 80:321-326.

Meyer EC, Brodsky D, Hansen AR, Lamiani G, Sellers DE, Browning DM. An interdisciplinary, family-focused approach to relational learning in neonatal intensive care. Journal of Perinatology 2010; 1-8.

Rider EA, Nawotniak RH. A Practical Guide to Teaching and Assessing the ACGME Core Competencies, Second Edition. Marblehead, MA: HCPro, Inc. (2010). 394 pages.

Truog RD, Browning DM, Johnson JL, Gallagher TH. When things go wrong: Talking with patients and families about medical error. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press (2010).

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

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.

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, 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.

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.

Calhoun AW, Rider EA. Engagement and listening skills: identifying learning needs. Medical Education 2008; 42:1134-1135.

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.

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

Sigall K. Bell, MD

Bell SK, Delbanco T, Anderson-Shaw L, McDonald TB, Gallagher TH. Accountability for Medical Error: Moving Beyond Blame to Advocacy. CHEST 2011; 140(2): 519-526.

White AA, Bell SK, Krauss MJ, et al. How trainees would disclose harmful medical errors: educational implications for training programs. Medical Education 2011; 45(4):372-80.

Gaufberg EH, Batalden M, Sands R, Bell SK. The Hidden Curriculum: What Can We Learn From Third-Year Medical Student Narrative Reflections? Academic Medicine 2010; 85(11):1709-16.

Bell SK, Misono A. The Teachable Moment. Academic Medicine 2010; 85(4):630.

Bell SK, Wideroff M, Gaufberg L. Student voices in Readers' Theater: exploring communication in the hidden curriculum. Patient Education & Counseling 2010; 80(3):354-7.

Bell SK, Moorman DW, Delbanco T. The impact of an educational intervention to improve the patient, family, and clinician experience after harmful events. Academic Medicine 2010; 85(6): 1010-17.

Gallagher TH, Bell SK, Smith KM, et al. Disclosing Harmful Medical Errors to Patients. CHEST 2009; 136(3): 897-903.

Delbanco T, Bell SK. Physician, Say You're Sorry. The New York Times Video Op-Ed, November 25, 2008.
Delbanco T, Bell SK. Guilty, Afraid, and Alone — Struggling with Medical Error. New England Journal of Medicine 2007; 357(17):1682-3.

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):798-815.

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. 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. To show our humanness: Relational and communicative competence in pediatric palliative care. Bioethics Forum 2003; 18(3/4):23-8.

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, 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.

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, 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.

Elizabeth A. Rider, MSW, MD

Rider, EA. Advanced communication in pediatrics: Strategies for relationship-centered care. Pediatric Annals, in press.

Rider EA. Communication. In: Rudolph C, Lister G, Gershon A, First L, Rudolph A, eds. Rudolph’s Pediatrics, 22nd edition. NY: McGraw-Hill (2011).

Rider EA, Nawotniak RH. A Practical Guide to Teaching and Assessing the ACGME Core Competencies, Second Edition. Marblehead, MA: HCPro, Inc. (2010). 394 pages.

Rider EA, Volkan K, Hafler JP. Pediatric residents' perceptions of communication competencies: Implications for teaching. Medical Teacher 2008; 30(7):e208-17.

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.

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. 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.

Participants in the Bayer-Fetzer Conference on Physician-Patient Communication in Medical Education. Essential elements of communication in medical encounters: the Kalamazoo Consensus Statement. Academic Medicine 2001; 76:390-393.

Robert D. Truog, MD

Truog RD. Consent for organ donation--balancing conflicting ethical obligations. New England Journal of Medicine 2008; 358(12):1209-1211.
Truog RD, Miller FG. The dead donor rule and organ transplantation. New England Journal of Medicine 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. Critical Care Medicine 2008; 36(3):953-963.
Truog RD. Tackling medical futility in Texas. New England Journal of Medicine 2007; 357(1):1-3.
Truog RD. The ethics of organ donation by living donors. New England Journal of Medicine 2005; 353(5):444-446.

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