06-APR-A-9
BY AN AMAZING COINCIDENCE,
THE VERY INSTRUMENT I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR TO USE IN MY DISSERTATILN
PROPOSAL MAY HAVE BEEN
DEVELOPED BY ONE OF MY
Hi Glenn: good to hear from you! In regard to
developing an academically
acceptable statistical model for your doctoral dissertation, I
think we can help
you. Martha
Gallagher, Ph.D that you met at our Celebration
ceremony
recently completed her doctoral dissertation at the
University of Toledo College of
Education. The subject of her thesis was essentially an
analysis of pre and
post interviews of med student participants on medical
mission
Hi Glenn: Good to hear from you! In regard to
developing an academically
acceptable statistical model for interviewing medical mission
participants, I
think we can help you.
Martha Gallagher, who you met in conjunction with our
March 18th, recently completed her doctoral
dissertation at the
University of
comprehensive pre-and post-interview instrument for measuring
the change in
perceptions of medical
mission participants. Please let me know if you would
like to get a copy of her thesis. We're still in the process of winding
down from our March 18th program. Appreciate your good nominations. I've got
some excellent pictures which I will send to you at GW.
Also a disc of our
program. Please send
me your expenditures in
order that you may be reimbursed.
It was good
to have you and Gin with
us. Keep up the good
work. And
consider the possibility of returning to
17th. I'm trying to put together a reception for Bill and Kathleen MaGee.
I've been able to get Honorary Doctoral Humanities Degrees
for them. This will
be the first
Graduate degrees to be offered by the newly merged University
of
I'm also working on getting Adjunct
Professorships for our Medical Mission Hall
of Fame
recipients at the Medical University of Ohio. Please let me know
what you think
about this idea. Lloyd Jacobs, M..D. Ph.D. who
was formerly
President of the University of Michigan Medical
Center and who is now President of
the merged
institutions is favorable to this approach. Keep up the good
work! Larry
...and all because you agreed to give that lecture
.... what a marvelous
break!
--- Glenn Geelhoed <msdgwg@gwumc.edu>
wrote:
> Will wonders never cease!
>
> I had just given the Medical University of
Ohio's
> lecture on
> International Medical
> return from
> and was introduced to
one of the audience, whom I
> did not know at the
> time had just
completed her PhD in Education. I now
> learn that she had
> done so through developing a "made to
order"
> instrument!
>
> This just in from Dr. Larry Conway, the
President of
> the Medical
> Mission Hall of Fame at which I was speaker
during
> their celebration.
>
> GWG
>
> >>> Glenn Geelhoed 4/18/2006 4:02 PM
>>>
> Wonderful!
Let me know ASAP!
>
> I just had mailed to you an interesting package
of
> miscellany which
> will include a number of photographs of
interest to
> you!
>
> Cheers!
>
> GWG
>
> >>> <CLVC8@aol.com>
4/18/2006 10:25 AM >>>
> Hi Glenn: good to hear from you! In regard to
> developing an
> academically
> acceptable statistical
model for your doctoral
> dissertation, I think
we
> can help
> you. Martha Gallagher, PhD that you met at our
> Celebration ceremony
> recently completed her
doctoral dissertation at the
> University of
>
> Education. The subject of her thesis was
essentially
> an analysis of
> pre and
> post interviews of med student participants on
> medical mission
>
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I just spoke at the annual Japanese action learning
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US.
I'm delighted to hear that you have found a possible
instrument! Let me
know
if it is what you need to do your research.
All the best,
Mike
Sounds like great news. Unfortunately the attached message cut off
but I get the gist of it ... can you "borrow" the recent PhD grad's
instrument?
>>> Glenn Geelhoed 04/20/06 1:31 PM
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Dear Larry:
What good news all around!
First, I am overjoyed that you have told me about
Martha Gallagher’s thesis and the instrument she has developed to test medical
students pre- and post-mission. I badly
need just such an instrument and I will explain why in an attached essay I just
wrote in frustration with the
recommended qualitative research methodologies that are described as
“interpretive”, tightly restricted to the case at hand as an explanation, but
in no way generalizable or from which any predictions
can be drawn. I need to have a generalizable and predictable pattern since I am intending
not just to describe a few students and their experience, but to make
recommendations on the institutionalization of the transformational medical
education experience that comes from mission experience in every student I have
introduced to such an environment.
If you could forward this note and attachments to
her as well as forward her thesis and instrument to me, it comes at just the
right time in the preparation of my proposal which must be defended later this
summer. I then must use such an instrument in the next missions I will be
leading, going to
Immediately upon return from this year’s MMHOF, I
was immersed in the “Comps” process and took the oral and written “Comps” for
my own transition into the “ABD” stage of the Doctorate in Education of the
ELDP (Executive Leadership Doctoral Program) at GWU. So, I now must put together a proposal and
defend it, and I am hoping to do it this summer to accord with the time frame
outlined by my Dissertation Committee Chairman, Prof Michael Marquardt, as you
see from the attached notes.
I would be delighted to discuss this with Martha
Gallagher and to test out her instrument that she has already validated to get
the data that I have so far been encouraged to look at phenomenologically,
which yields a softer set of conclusions which I had been dissatisfied with as
a lever with which to convince anyone of the value of mission medicine
experience as a transformational learning experience more valuable than any
other offered in our medical curricula.
Another item about which I am most excited is to see
that the union of the MUO and UT under the capable leadership of (how could it
get any better?) the UMMC’s own Lloyd Jacobs may be
providing Adjunct Professorships to the MMHOF recipients. Put me at the head of that queue! I would be most appreciative and look forward
to participating actively in any way I can to promote the conjoined common
cause!
I will look to the December 8 date when Bill and
Cathy McGee will be receiving Doctoral Humanities degrees Honoris
Causae, and hope to follow their lead. I will see if the
I look forward to receiving the DVD and photos you
mentioned and I hope you have already received the package I had coincidentally
sent to you the day before I received your welcome email. I will add those items you had requested and
that I had promised, and look forward to joining with you as soon as it can be
arranged, even before next year’s MMHOF. Thanks again!
Yours Truly
Glenn W. Geelhoed
Attachments:
Letter to and from Thesis Committee Chair Dr.
Michael Marquardt
“The Impact of a Volunteer Medical
Letters to and from Dr. Carl Taylor
My reservations about the qualitative approach to
describing student’s experiences and its responses: “Reflections on the Science
of ‘Human Sciences’”
Letters to and from Senator DeWine
Letters to the UF International Health Education
Group
My pre and post mission letter for
Reports to PFP and UN MVP: “Report to PFP” and
“Rwandan Gorillas in our Midst”
“Phenomenologic Research
Proposal”