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Please note: As I am retired, I am no longer accepting students.

Graduate teaching:

My graduate teaching took place within the Division of Population Health and Applied Health Sciences in the Faculty of Medicine.  There, I taught and supervised students in the PhD, MSc, and MHE programmes.  I developed and delivered two graduate courses that were important for students conducting qualitative research:  Critical Theory in Society and Health (MED 6102), and Postcolonial Theory: Considering the “Other” in Science, Medicine and Bioethics (MED 6226). I also offered student-specific reading courses in Indigeneity in Bioethics, Culture and Power in Science and Medicine, and Critical Race Theory. My PhD students have gone on to hold prestigious academic positions across Canada and beyond. MSc and MHE students supervised by me have applied their Master’s research to their careers in health policy, health research, research ethics, and medicine.

In the Master of Health Ethics program, I was Practicum Coordinator as well as supervising graduate students and providing course instruction. Key to that role was my development of an innovative training module in research ethics, using case-based role play that included a “mock REB”.   

Medical education:

In undergraduate medicine, I worked alongside other bioethics faculty to design and deliver the bioethics curriculum. As part of that curriculum I created a module on “Diversity, Culture, and Ethics”, which is described in my  publication, “Guidelines for Teaching Cross-cultural Clinical Ethics: Critiquing Ideology and Confronting Power in the Service of Principles-based Pedagogy,” detailed in the research section of this faculty profile.

Alongside my bioethics colleagues, I provided ethics education for all of the residency programs.  I was responsible for designing and delivering the ethics component of predeparture training for medical students shadowing in other countries. I was part of a team to develop an  on providing culturally safe health care to Indigenous patients.

Early on in my teaching career, family physician Pauline Duke and I initiated the MUN MED Gateway Programme , which since 2005 has provided service learning opportunities for medical students working with new Canadians, while also providing clinical care to newly arrived refugees. Publications describing this student-led clinic are detailed in the research section of this faculty profile.