Ragnhild Holgaard, MSc in Psychology
Ph.D. Student, Research Unit for General Practice,
Section for General Medicine,
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Date of Visit: TBC
Purpose of Visit
Ragnhild is looking forward to meeting with all members of the CHES community to discuss methodological and theoretical challenges in health education research. She is excited to hear about the work being done at CHES and to share perspectives on current projects as well as discuss possible future collaborative projects. Ragnhild is particularly interested in methodological questions related to working with qualitative methods within research.
Biography
Ragnhild is a Ph.D. student at the Research Unit for General Practice in Copenhagen. She has previous experience in varied areas of applied psychology, including safety and incident analysis related to trains and shipping, usability and design, traffic safety, and social and cognitive capabilities within the healthcare system. Her research has focused on qualitative methods.
Her current work aims to better understand how Family Medicine residents become specialists. Originally curious about tacit knowledge, gut feelings, and body memory, Ragnhild set out to observe an assumed transfer of expertise from senior personnel to residents. However, during her fieldwork, she only rarely witnessed interactions between the two. Bewilderment sparked interest, leading to a new research focus: how are residents shaped into specialists in lieu of apprenticeship learning? Ragnhild has taken a systemic perspective on this question and tries to understand how the healthcare system shapes residents into becoming specialists.