Marghalara Rashid, PhD

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Pediatrics Dept

Pronouns: she, her, hers

Contact

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Pediatrics Dept
Email
marghala@ualberta.ca

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Health professions education Qualitative Research knowledge synthesis Knowledge translation


About

Marghalara Rashid is currently appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry.


Research

My interest in health professions education stems from my previous experience in medical education, curriculum design, and program evaluation for interprofessional-based education. My research program engages a multi-method approach (e.g., knowledge synthesis, qualitative inquiry including ethnography, constructive grounded theory, and narrative Inquiry etc) to establish evidence-based solutions to improve equity in health professions scholarship. I am particularly interested in examining biases, barriers, and obstacles that hinder equity in health professions education.  Further, my focus is on cultural competency inclusion specifically exploring the experiences of health professionals and trainees from marginalized groups such as indigenous communities, visible minorities, and people with disabilities to promote Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Indigenization (EDII).  We also focus on developing educational interventions that will assist educators and learners in gaining the cultural competencies required to provide appropriate care to patients from diverse groups. In particular, a philosophical approach to critical theory, intersectionality and decolonizing framework has played a significant role in informing study design, research questions, and the ensuing trajectory of our research projects.

Additionally, my program provides a centralized home for health professions education within the Department of Pediatrics where all faculty members (i.e., junior, and clinical) and trainees (students, residents, MSc, Ph.D., and postdoctoral fellows) can come together for learning, mentorship, and collaboration. In my program, we encourage collaboration with clinical faculty who are interested in HPE research in the Department of Pediatrics. There are 16 divisions in the Department of Pediatrics. The clinical faculty in these divisions greatly benefit from this initiative. Currently, I am leading interrelated activities to establish this program of research, for which we have applied to Tri-Council (or other relevant) funding agencies.


Teaching

I am Teaching/ co-teach following courses: 

1. PEADS- 601

2. EDHS 597 - Special Seminars

3. REHAB 601 SEM B1 -  Research Design 

Courses

EDHS 597 - Special Seminars

Priority given to graduate students in the Master of Education in Health Sciences Education program. Content varies from year to year. Topics announced prior to registration period. Transcript carries title descriptive of content. May be repeated. Sections are offered at an increased rate of fee assessment.


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Featured Publications

Rashid M, Arseneau N, Kemble T, Lightning M. P, Forbes, K. L.

Medical Education Online. 2024 May; 29 (1) 10.1080/10872981.2024.2350251


Marghalara Rashid, Mark Goldszmidt

Medical Education. 2024 May; 10.1111/medu.15401


Julie Nguyen, Marghalara Rashid, Sarah Forgie

Medical Teacher . 2023 October; 46 (6):763–768. 10.1080/0142159X.2023.2289852


Marghalara Rashid, Julie Nguyen, Jessica L. Foulds, Liz Dennett, Nicole Cardinal, Sarah E. Forgie

Journal of Graduate Medical Education . 2023 April; 15 (1):24–36. 10.4300/JGME-D-22-00180.1


Rashid Marghalara, Nguyen Julie, Foulds Jessica, Forgie, Sarah E.

Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions . 2023 January; 43 (1):12-20 10.1097/CEH.0000000000000449


Marghalara Rashid, Sarah Forgie

Canadian Medical Education Journal . 2022 October; 13 (6) 10.36834/cmej.75214


Erin Boschee,Zoya Zaeem,Aditi Amin,Karen Moniz, Marghalara Rashid

Medical Education Online. 2022 May; 27 (1) 10.1080/10872981.2022.2079395


Davila-Cervantes Andrea, Foulds Jessica L, Gomaa Nahla A, Rashid Marghalara

Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions . 2021 January; 41 (1): 24-30 10.1097/CEH.0000000000000322


Marghalara Rashid, Vera Caine, Helly R Goez

International Journal of Qualitative Methods. 2015 April; 14 ( 5) 10.1177/1609406915621421


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