These two poems emerged from my qualitative research with homeless youth in Accra Central, Ghana. I was overwhelmed at how this method of research rarely used in Ghana offers a researcher the opportunity to capture participants' subjective feelings, and the complexities of their perceptions and experiences of a phenomenon. The aim of the study was to examine the lived experiences of street yout...

This article focuses on how confession operates in contemporary discourses on reflective practices. By revisiting and mobilising Foucault’s genealogy of confession in relation to how reflective practices are mobilised in an in-service training programme for health care assistants (HCA) in elderly care, it is argued that the HCAs are shaped as their own confessors. It is further argued that we n...

This paper offers a medical-education perspective that I will hope complement other disciplinary perspectives in examining the value of reflection for learning in tertiary education. The paper outlines some of the theoretical strands of reflective practice facilitated in a unique course subject for professionalism and patient safety, within the new spiral curriculum at Leeds University School o...

In 2003, the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine initiated a 4-year Geriatric Medical Student Scholars (GMSS) program in which a selected group of 14 medical students participated in a variety of extracurricular geriatrics-related activities such as one-on-one mentoring and discussion groups. These students were also required to compose journal entries describing GMSS program-related a...

background: there is a paucity of information about the oral pathology related articles published in a pathology journal. this study aimed to audit the oral pathology related articles published in iranian journal of pathology (iran j pathol)from 2006 to 2015. methods: bibliometric analysis of issues of iran j pathol from 2006 to 2015 was performed using web-based search.the articles published w...