Dr. Karen Mann Lectureship in Medical Education

The Karen Mann Lectureship in Medical Education is named in memory of Dr. Karen Mann, a life-long champion of the role medical education plays in advancing leadership in the field of medicine. Each year we remember our friend and colleague with a prominent lecturer in medical education.

MERIS (Medical Education Research and Innovation Showcase)

MERIS is our annual research showcase that presents innovation and scholarly work relevant to medical, interprofessional and health professions education. As an attendee, you’ll join other professionals with a common interest in medical and health professions education.

It’s not only a perfect opportunity to meet and share information with faculty, preceptors, residents and students in the medical, dental and health professions community, it’s also a chance to mingle with other members of the greater Dalhousie community.

This offers a forum for faculty, residents and students to present their scholarly/professional working topics such as curriculum, teaching,learning, evaluation and faculty development in undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education.

Please contact Shruti Joshi (Event Co-ordinator) for more information.

Event Learning Objectives:
1. Recognize the wide range of educational research/development in medicine/health at Dalhousie (Scholar)
2. Describe the wide range of approaches and methods for educational research and development (Scholar)
3. Identify appropriate methods of investigation for a particular question (Scholar, Professional)
4. Identify possible partnerships for educational development (Scholar, Leader, Collaborator)

Registration is now open for The Karen Mann Lectureship in Medical Education & MERIS. Click here to register!

Mann Lecture Learning Objectives:
1. Critically examine medical education as a form of institutional production that privileges standardization, predictability, and reproducibility in the formation of physicians. (Health Advocate)
2. Theorize how standardization, assessment, and professionalism operate to discipline trainees and sustain institutional legitimacy and often at the expense of authenticity. (Professional)
3. Imagine alternative possibilities for medical education by considering collapse, resistance, and “wildness” not simply as threats to institutional order, but as potential openings for reclaiming humanity, moral agency, and more liberatory forms of professional formation. (Leader)

Previous Karen Mann Lectures:

• 2025- Kori LaDonna PhD- Introducing the intruder paradox: "It's not the imposter syndrome, it's you don't want me in the field" 
• 2024 - Dr. Lisa Meeks - From Awareness to Action: Combating Ableism and Embracing Disability Inclusion in Medical Education
  
•  2023- Dr. Javeed Sukhera - Stigma in the Mirror
• 2022 - Dr. Lara Varpio & Dr. Will Bynum - With A Little Help From Our Friends: MD & PhD Collaboration In Health Professions Education Research
• 2021 - Dr. Saleem Razack - Constructing Professionalism in Unprecedented times
  
• 2019 - Dr. Lorelei Lingard - The Many Faces of Clinical Supervision 
  
• 2018 - Dr. Kevin Eva - Finding Your Niche in Health Professional Education Scholarship