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Ivana GuarrasiIvana Guarrasi

Email Address: iguarras@ucsd.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Student, Communication, University of California, San Diego

M.A., Linguistics, California State University, Long Beach, 2009

M.A., English Language and Literature, Prešov University, Slovakia, 2005

M.A., Aesthetics, Prešov University, Slovakia, 2005

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Multi-modal interaction, embodiment, ethnomethodology, performance studies, arts and medicine, medical education, informal learning environments.

RESEARCH FOCUS

I am interested in the relationship between medical education and performance studies. My research focuses on the role of standardized patients, actors performing the role of a patient, in the context of performance-based learning in medical education. I study how standardized patients function as an educational instrument that embodies as well as restructures the practices of experiential and performance-based learning. I explore the bureaucratic practices, standardized performative enactments, and documentation of simulated physician-patient interaction as mediated by instruments of classification and checklist-based assessment - standardized patients.