Research Team
Doctoral Students
Victoria is a research associate and PhD student at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. While she has contributed to a number of projects related to the social and material aspects of medical education, her graduate work focuses on the role of personality in the workplace and the experience of medical trainees encountering struggle and underperformance.
Victoria Luong
Masters Students
Megan is a practicing Registered Nurse, nursing instructor, and Master of Education student at Acadia University. She is excited to take part in her first qualitative research study, and to learn more from Dr. Burm and the team. Megan's research interests include professional identity development in undergraduate nursing students, and transition to practice challenges.
Megan Englehutt
Pauline Tran-Roop
Pauline Tran-Roop is a pharmacist working in community and hospital pharmacy in Nova Scotia, and helps to coordinate the Continuing Pharmacy Education program at Dalhousie University. She is currently doing a thesis for her Master of Education program through Acadia University. For her thesis, Pauline is looking to explore the experiences of community pharmacists in an era of change, and expanding scope of practice. She is excited for the opportunity to work and learn from Dr. Sarah Burm who is also her thesis supervisor. Pauline is an immigrant to Canada, and is grateful for all the opportunities that Canada provides.
Medical Learners
Jasmine Sodhi (she/her) is a current third-year medical student at Dalhousie University. She graduated from the University of Ottawa in 2022 with a Bachelor of Science (Honours Major in Biology and Minor in History). Since 2022, she has been involved in equity and diversity work in medical school as a student leader. Alongside Dr. Sarah Burm and team, she has more recently been researching institutional equity and diversity work, with a focus on the actors involved. She was born and raised in Truro, Nova Scotia.
Jasmine Sodhi
Marihan Farid (she/her) is a first-year resident in Internal Medicine at Dalhousie University. She has a strong passion for medical education and addressing the needs of underrepresented groups in medicine and medical leadership. Marihan has authored the interactive book "Am I Ableist? Disability Awareness in Healthcare", a resource for healthcare students on disability and ableism, now integrated into healthcare curriculums across North America. Marihan's research aims to improve the emotional well-being of medical trainees by evaluating the emotional challenges they face and advocating for systemic changes that support mental health and resilience in the medical profession.
Marihan Farid
Sabastian Deagle (he/him) is a current medical student at the University of Toronto and is enrolled in the Canadian Armed Forces’ Medical Officer Training Plan. He graduated from Western University in 2021 with a Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours Double Major in Rehabilitation Sciences and Biology). Since 2019, he has been researching Indigenous medical workforce development in Canada, alongside Dr. Sarah Burm and other researchers at the Centre for Education Research and Innovation at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry. He is a member of Cowessess First Nation, but was born and raised in London, Ontario.
Sebastian Deagle
Research Staff
Anne Mahalik
Anne is an evaluation specialist and research associate in the Faculty of Medicine. Anne has participated in research on early career physician learning needs; interactive learning in continuing professional development; learner mistreatment in medical education; faculty wellness and examining the role of EDI in academic leadership.
Tanya Jain
Tanya completed her Masters of Health Informatics from the University of Toronto. She is currently a Research Associate with Nova Scotia Health and is working with Sarah on a longitudinal qualitative project exploring physicians’ experiences of grief during COVID-19. Over the past five years, Tanya’s project management and research skills have been strengthened by the opportunities she has had to collaborate with both public and private healthcare stakeholders.
Alumni
Carolyn Melro
Carolyn is a Killam Scholar, who earned a PhD in Health at Dalhousie University. Carolyn’s doctoral research maps the current literature on Indigenous Peoples Health courses and determines the effectiveness of such a course on health professional learner’s attitudes, beliefs and perceived responsibility to address Indigenous Peoples inequities to inform the development of a conceptual model for health professional education. She strongly advocates for measuring and evaluating the effect of equity-driven solutions and continues to collaborate with esteemed researchers across Canada and internationally, addressing critical topics in health policy, health professions education, and patient engagement. Carolyn continues to develop her expertise in both qualitative and quantitative methodologies and has contributed to research publications in prominent medical education journals (e.g., Academic Medicine, Medical Education, and Perspectives in Medical Education).
Selena MacDonald