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Biography
Dr Samantha Smith, BMedSci(Hons), MBChB, PGDipClinEd, MRCGP, MD, is a GP and health professions education researcher. She completed her doctorate at the University of Edinburgh in the field of medical students’ workplace learning. As a clinical senior lecturer in the centre for medical education, she has responsibilities for teaching on the MMedEd programme as well as conducting and supervising research.
Research
Dr Smith has been involved in a wide variety of research projects, incorporating a range of qualitative and quantitative research techniques. She has developed a strong interest in workplace integration. Her doctoral work explored the impact of contributing to patient care on medical students’ professional identities and relationships within the workplace. She has co-supervised several related research projects, exploring medical students’ sense of belonging, the social identity formation of internal medicine trainees, and professional identity transitions of medical registrars.
When working as a researcher at the Scottish Centre for Simulation and Human Factors, she began to recognise the ways in which immersive simulation might influence workplace integration. Her more recent work focuses on the integration of refugee doctors into their host healthcare systems, and the influence of immersive simulation on this transition.