Moments of Rupture: The Importance of Affect in Medical Education and Surgical Training

A.O. Mahendran is senior lecturer and consultant transplant surgeon at Queen Mary University/Barts and the Royal London Medical School, where she is also programme director for the MSc. in Physician Associate Studies. She undertook her specialist surgical training in London and New York and completed a PhD in Education at Goldsmiths’, University of London. She was the 2018 Winner of the (BERA) British Educational Research Association Doctoral Thesis Award.

Part 1 Context and Theory 1. Introduction: How are Events of Clinical Practice Encountered? 2. The Nature of Affect: A Philosophical Approach 3. Exploring Experiences of Learning and Practice: Pedagogies of Encounter Part 2 Representations of Clinical Practice: Ideologies, Complexities and Candour 4. Conceptions of Care and Caring: Complicated Procedures versus Complex Experiences 5. Negotiating and Coping with Complex Events of Practice and Difficult Conversations Part 3 The Affective Conditions of Pedagogy and Practice 6. Beyond Pedagogical Aims: The Role of Subjectivity and Affect in Shaping the Reality of Surgical Training 7. Learner Identities: How is the Surgical Trainee Characterised and Regulated within Clinical Training Materials? 8. How Does the Structurisation of Medical Practice Enable and Control the Ways in which Practice is Lived and Realised? Part 4 Encountering the Reality of Clinical Practice: Coping and Learning in Contingent Environments 9. Making Sense of ‘Messy’ Practice: Affective Dispositions, the Obligations of Practice and Processes of Mattering