Beyond Snapshots: Studying Medical Training Through Time

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Dorene Balmer about her book, The Long Arc of Training: Six Stories of Aspiring Doctors, which emerged from a 12-year longitudinal qualitative study that followed medical students into residency and practice. Balmer reflects on how repeated, relationship-based interviews allow participants to reflect on their evolving identities as physicians and surgeons, their career options and their personal values in ways that traditional “snapshot” research cannot capture.

Guest:

Dorene Balmer, PhD

Professor of Pediatrics

Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

&

Education Scientist

Education Collaboratory, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia