Dr Karime Mescouto
Physiotherapist & Honorary Postdoctoral Research Fellow, RECOVER Injury Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Australia
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Karime Mescouto is a physiotherapist from Brazil and an Honorary Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the RECOVER Injury Research Centre at The University of Queensland, Australia.
In her postdoctoral role, Karime worked in the Improving Health Outcomes after Musculoskeletal Injury team and assisted with qualitative research designs to progress projects. In her doctoral research, Karime was interested in enhancing low back pain healthcare delivery by critically looking at the biopsychosocial model of health. She used a variety of qualitative methodologies and collaborated with clinicians and people with lived experience of low back pain to explore the social, cultural and interpersonal aspects of clinical and research practices. Karime has expertise in various qualitative methodologies and methods, including ethnography, critical qualitative methodologies, interviews, focus groups and participatory/co-design approaches. She is interested in incorporating sociological thinking into health research, education and clinical practice to explore and foster more equitable care. |
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Critical Reflexivity in Pain Care: Adding “Criticality” to Reflective Practices
Reflection is an integral and common component of healthcare professionals work to think and improve on how we do what we do. Critical reflexivity is a different and complementary form of reflective practice. Critical reflexivity is interested in questioning how healthcare professionals’ backgrounds, dominant forms of knowledge, colleague’s and workplace values, societal norms and discourses influence our practice and relation to others. It questions: what are the power relations present in this encounter? Ultimately, it helps us address our own biases and assumptions about the world and others, while considering their impact on our social relations to foster more equitable and compassionate healthcare practices. This talk will provide a brief overview of what critical reflexivity is, and what it does in the context of healthcare practices. It will explore the evidence from medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and education to discuss the benefits and challenges of fostering critically reflexive professionals. Attendees should leave this talk feeling better equipped to challenge their assumptions and biases and provide more compassionate and equitable healthcare practices.
