Robert Paul, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
University of Toronto
Dates of Visit: October 30, 2023
Biography
Dr. Robert Paul is a scholar at the Wilson Centre (UHN/University of Toronto), an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (University of Toronto) and an Education Researcher at The Institute of Education Research (UHN).
His research looks at professional and institutional identity construction in academic medicine, and at the effects of money in, and on, health care institutions and professionals. He is a historian, a Foucauldian, and a recovering capitalist/neoliberal.
Past projects include the integration of foreign trained health professionals, the assessment of professionalism and the history of the Karolinska Prize for Research in Medical Education. Current projects include an exploration of the impact of virtual technologies in academic medicine, a 100-year history of EDI in the UHN and its predecessors, and the development of a simulation-based intervention to trigger reflexivity in clinical practice.
Purpose of Visit
Dr. Paul is looking to discuss his work with members of the CHES community and the idea of history as a lens to be used in HPE research.