Tina’s academic training in Political Science and the Sociology of Higher Education, combined with over two decades working in clinical contexts and university administration has led her to develop a unique interdisciplinary orientation to the study of health professions education. At the heart of her research program is the exploration of problematic socio-political relationships that impact the mission of health professional organizations to prepare and support clinicians to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to all patients.
Theoretically, Tina’s works aims to elaborate on governmentality effects: the ways in which dominant discourses impact professional identity negotiations, particularly the articulation and application of expertise. She thus studies the material effects of discourse as a particular dimension of the hidden curriculum with the potential to support or hinder educational delivery and learning. Tina is also interested in ways in which organizations and educational programs may inadvertently create the conditions for knowledge stratification. Entry points for this work are discourses, such as collaboration, humanism, integration, caring, and globalization. These pervasive discourses and the associated activities, identities, tools, and cultural symbols they make possible, manifest formally and informally and influence the value systems that academic health care providers, learners and patients bring to their interactions.
Her educational practice is closely aligned to her research program. As an educator, Tina employs critical and social cultural pedagogies to enable clinician educators to incorporate complex negotiations of the social world in their educational planning and implementation.
The Wilson Centre generates high quality and innovative interdisciplinary education science to propel transformations in health professions education.
This research explores the impact of the shift to virtual care at the level operations and professional and institutional identity in four distinct clinical sites in UHN and SickKids.
Justin Lam
PhD Graduate Student
Thesis: Exploring how organizational change affects faculty professional identities
Supervisors: Maria Athina (Tina) Martimianakis
Elisabeth-Abigail Ramdawar
PhD Graduate Student
Thesis: Exploring socio-political relationships and institutional practices that impact healthcare professional’s wellness.
Supervisors: Maria Athina (Tina) Martimianakis
Leslie St. Jacques
PhD Graduate Student
Thesis: Increasing Compassion in Health Care Through Education: Exploring the Socialization of Physician Assistants in Canada
Supervisors: Maria Athina (Tina) Martimianakis
Erene Stergiopoulos
PhD Graduate Student
Thesis: Licensure and regulatory policies for physicians with disabilities
Supervisors: Maria Athina (Tina) Martimianakis