Dr. Anna MacLeod

Education:

• PhD (University of South Australia)
• MAEd (Mount Saint Vincent University)
• BEd (University of New Brunswick)
• BA (University of New Brunswick)

Brief bio

Dr. MacLeod is a social scientist with an active research portfolio. A qualitative researcher, she uses ethnographic methods to learn about distributed medical education and learning with technology. She is particularly interested in understanding the social and material influences associated with developing professional identities.

Research interest

Dr. MacLeod maintains a Tri-Council funded program of research exploring the complexities of medical education in a digital age. She is currently the Principal Investigator on grants funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Books (Edited Collection)

Schnurr, M., & MacLeod, A. (2020). Simulation-based education: A transdisciplinary perspective. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.

Select recent publications

MacLeod A, Ellaway RH, Cleland J. (2024). A meta-study analysing the discourses of discourse analysis in health professions education. Medical Education.1-13. doi:10.1111/medu.15309.

Aston M, Price S, MacLeod A, Stone K, Benoit B, Joy P, Ollivier R, Sim M, Etowa J, Jack S, Marcellus L, Iduye D (2024). Examining how postpartum videoconferencing support sessions can facilitate connections between parents: A poststructural and sociomaterial analysis.  Nursing Reports 14, no. 1: 99-114. https://doi.org/10.3390/nursrep14010009

Varpio L, Parker R, MacLeod A (2024). Understanding the differences that differentiate: A model for deciding which of 8 different literature reviews to conduct. Journal of Graduate Medical Education. (In press)

Burm, S., MacDonald, S., Melro, C., Kennedy, E., Tran Roop, P., MacLeod, A., Kilbertus, F., Robinson, S., & Phinney, J. (2024). The burden of grief: A scoping review of nurses’ and physicians’ experiences throughout the covid-19 pandemic. Death Studies DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2024.2306461

Melro, C., Pack, R., MacLeod, A., Rideout, A., Watson-Creed, G. & Burm, S.  (2024). Front row seat: The role MMI assessors play in widening access to medical school. Medical Teacher. (DOI: 10.1080/0142159X.2023.2289851

Pride T, Sibbald K, MacLeod A, Martin D, Owen M (2023). Faculty from marginalized groups in the health and social service professions: Challenging ‘expected academic’ identity and roles. Canadian Journal of Higher Education. 53(1), 32-43.

Price S, Aston M, MacLeod A, Jack S, Benoit B, Ollivier R, Joy P, Iduye D (2023). Perceptions of safety in the virtual space: Exploring parents' experiences with postpartum support groups using videoconferencing. American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing. In press.

MacLeod A, Aston M, Price S, Stone K, Ollivier R, Benoit B, Sim M, Marcellus L, Jack S, Joy P, Gholampourch M, Iduye D. "There's an Etiquette to Zoom That's Not Really Present In-Person": A Qualitative Study Showing How the Mute Button Shapes Virtual Postpartum Support for New Parents. Qual Health Res. 2023 Sep;33(11):1005-1016. doi: 10.1177/10497323231187541. Epub 2023 Aug 9. PMID: 37554077; PMCID: PMC10494476.

Brown C, MacLeod A, Hawick L, Cleland J. Disembodied, dehumanised but safe and feasible: The social-spatial flow of a pandemic OSCE. Med Educ. 2023 Jul 30. doi: 10.1111/medu.15173. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37517448.

MacLeod, A., Luong, V., Cameron, P., Burm, S., Field, S., Kits, O., Miller, S., Stewart. W.A. (2023). Case-Informed Learning in Medical Education: A Call for Ontological Fidelity. Perspectives on Medical Education. 12;2(1):120-128. doi: 10.5334/pme.47. PMID: 37063601; PMCID: PMC10103732.

Annan, H.G., Do, V., MacLeod, A. (2023) Learning by doing: A phenomenological study of medical student leaders. Medical Education, Feb 5. doi: 10.1111/medu.15025. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36740400.

Luong, V., Bearman, M., MacLeod, A. (2023). A Beginner's Guide to Meta-Ethnography. Journal of Graduate Medical Education, 15(1), 46-47. doi: 10.4300/JGME-D-22-00958.1. PMID: 36817546; PMCID: PMC9934820.

Luong, V., Bearman, M., MacLeod, A. (2023). Understanding Meta-Ethnography in Health Professions Education Research. Journal of Graduate Medical Education,15(1), 40-45. doi: 10.4300/JGME-D-22-00957.1. PMID: 36817528; PMCID: PMC9934838.

Jalali A, Jeong D, MacLeod, A., Archibald D. (2023). Un guide rapide pour ls outils de cyberapprentissage et leur conception pédagogique. University of Ottawa Journal of Medicine, 12(1), 11-15, DOI: https://doi.org/10.18192/UOJM.v12i1.6140

Awards & honours

• 2024, Elected Fellow of AMEE – The International Association for Health Professions Education (FAMEE)
• 2023 AMEE Best Research Presentation Award “Critical Discourse Analysis of Death and Dying in Case Based Learning: A Call for Ontological Fidelity”
• 2022 AMEE Best Research Presentation Award “The Invisible Work of Cadaver-Based Simulation: A Practice-Based Ethnography”
• 2018 Elected to Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars
  
• 2016 Canadian Association for Medical Education Certificate of Merit
• 2013 DalVision Academic Innovation Award: Development of a Digital OSCE Scoring System
• 2010 Most Popular Article Award: Advances in Health Sciences Education: Theory and Practice. (Mann K, Gordon J, MacLeod A. Reflective Practice in Health Professions Education: A Review of the Literature. Advances in Health Sciences Education: Theory and Practice, 2009; 14: 595-621).

Memberships

• Association for the Study of Medical Education
• Canadian Association for Medical Education
• American Educational Research Association
• Association for the Study of Medical Education in Europe
• Canadian Society for the Study of Education

Teaching

• Research in Medicine, Unit Head
  

Service & activities

• Associate Editor, Advances in Health Sciences Education: Theory and Practice
• Chair, Research in Medicine Committee
• Member, Undergraduate Medical Education Curriculum Committee
• Member, Education Council