"In Process and Collaboration: A Shared Snapshot of Co-Ethnography in Medical Practice"

Recording of a workshop facilitated by Dr. Jessica Restaino (Montclair State University) and Dr. Damali Campbell-Oparaji (University Hospital, Newark, NJ).

Restaino and Campbell-Oparaji discuss their ongoing collaboration on a range of issues: race, gender, and mental health biases in medicine; the complex work of medical education, its traditions and hierarchies; the physician as subject (family life; professional status; intersectional identities); and the complexities of collaboration, including Restaino’s status as non-medical expert as well as her own intersectional identities. Campbell-Oparaji and Restaino talk about how they’ve framed their work (so far); what sorts of questions, challenges, and innovations have emerged; and their sense of the need for writing about and through the experience of medical practice. The closing segment of this workshop invites participants' questions and comments about their own collaborative challenges.