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Dr. Delese Wear, PhD.

Dr. Delese Wear, PhD.

Dr. Delese Wear graduated from Kent State University in 1977 where she earned her Master Degree in Educational Administration, followed by a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction.

During the last 20 years, she has gained extensive experience in medical education and curriculum design holding several posts at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (NEOUCOM) such as CETA Project Administrator, Program Associate Human Values in Medicine, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Sciences, Women and Medicine Associate Director, Human Values in Medicine Program Coordinator and Associate Director, Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences and, Professor of Behavioral Sciences.

Dr. Wear has been an active member of several professional organizations namely Associate Editor at Journal of Medical Humanities, Editorial Board Member at Journal of Curriculum Theorizing as well as Perspectives on Biology and Medicine. She is currently associated with American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and American Educational Research Association.

Publications:

  1. Wear, D., & Zarconi, J. (2008). Can compassion be taught? Journal of General Internal Medicine (accepted for publication)
  2. Wear, D., Aultman, J., Varley, J., & Zarconi, J. (2008). Derogatory and cynical humor directed toward patients: Views from residents and attending. Medical Education (accepted for publication)
  3. Wear, D. (2008). On outcomes and humility. Academic Medicine, 83(7), 625-626.
  4. Wear, D., & Kuzcewski, M. (2008). Medical students’ perceptions of the poor:
    What impact can medical education have? Academic Medicine, 83(7), 639-645.
  5. Wear, D., & Varley, J. (2008). Rituals of verification: The role of simulation in developing and evaluating empathic communication. Patient Education and Counseling, 71(2), 153-156.
  6. Wear, D., Zarconi, J. (2007). A humanities-based capstone course in medical education: An affirming and difficult look back. Journal for Learning through the Arts, 2(1), 1-13.
  7. Wear, D., Aultman, J. (2007) Medical humanities as radical hermeneutics text. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 50(3), 348-362)
  8. Wear, D., Aultman, J., & Borges, N. (2007). Re-theorizing sexual harassment in medical education: Women students’ perceptions at five U.S. medical schools. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 19(1), 20-29.
  9. Wear, D., Aultman, J., Varley, J., & Zarconi, J. (2006). Making fun of patients: Medical students’ perceptions and use of derogatory and cynical humor in clinical settings. Academic Medicine, 81(5), 454-462.
  10. Aultman, J., & Wear, D. (2006). Medicine as place. Perspectives on Biology and Medicine, 49(1), 84-97.
  11. Wear, D., & Aultman, J. (2005). The limits of narrative: Medical student resistance to confronting inequality and oppression in literature and beyond. Medical Education, 39, 184-191.
  12. Wear, D., & Aultman, J. (2005). Sexual harassment in academic medicine: Persistence, non-reporting, and institutional response. Medical Education Online, 10(10), 1-11.
  13. Wear, D., Kokinova, M., Keck-McNulty, C., & Aultman, J. (2005). Pimping: perspectives of 4th year medical students. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 17(2), 184-191.
  14. Wear, D., Keck-McNulty, C., Jones, B., Penn, M., & Moss, P. (2004). Medical students’ experience of academic review and promotions committees. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 16(3), 226-232.
  15. Wear, D., & Keck-McNulty, C. (2004). Attitudes of female nurses and female residents toward each other: A qualitative study in one teaching hospital. Academic Medicine, 79, 291-301.
  16. Wear, D. (2004). Toward negative capability: Literature in the medical curriculum. Curriculum Inquiry, 34(2), 139-167.
  17. Wear, D., & Kuczewski, M. (2004) The professionalism movement: Can we pause? American Journal of Bioethics, 4(2), 1-10.
  18. Wear, D. (2003). Insurgent multiculturalism: Rethinking how and why we teach cultural issues in medical education. Academic medicine, 78(6), 549-554.
  19. Wear, D. (2003). Birthing babies (or not): Assisted reproduction in literature. The Pharos, 66(1), 19-25.
  20. Wear, D., & Keck-McNulty, C. (2003). Medical students for choice: Origins, current conceptions, and potential impact. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 15(1), 52-58.
  21. Wear, D. (2002). From pragmatism to politics: A qualitative study of physician abortion providers. Women and Health, 36(3), 103-113.
  22. Wear, D. & Castellani, B. (2002). Medicine and motherhood: The experience of double consciousness. Annals of Behavioral Sciences in Medical Education, 18(2), 92-96.
  23. Wear, D. (2002). Heart, be still: Fear of academic performance. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 18(3), 65-74.
  24. Wear, D. (2002). The House of God: Another look. Academic Medicine, 77(6): 496-501.
  25. Wear, D. (2002). Face to face with it: Medical students’ narratives of their end-of-life experiences. Academic Medicine, 77(4), 271-277.
  26. Wear, D. & Nixon, L. L. (2002). Literature and professional development: Against abstractions. Perspectives on Biology and Medicine, 45(1), 104-124.
  27. Wear, D. (2000). Asian/Pacific Island women in medical education: Personal and professional challenges. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 12(3), 156-163.
  28. Wear, D. & Castellani, B. (2000). (Re)Considering context in patient-doctor relationships. Annals of Behavioral Science in Medical Education (accepted for publication).
  29. Wear, D., & Castellani, B. (2000). The development of professionalism: Curriculum matters. Academic Medicine, 75(6), 602-611.
  30. Castellani, B., & Wear, D. (2000). Physician views on practicing professionalism in the corporate age. Qualitative Health Research, 10(4), 490-506.
  31. Wear, D. Toward qualitative understandings of health phenomena. Qualitative Health Research, 10(2), 277-283.
  32. Wear, D. & Castellani, B. (1999). Conflicting plots and narrative dysfunction in health care. Perspectives on Biology and Medicine, 42(4), 544-558.
  33. Wear, D. (1999). The health of women and girls: Readings of/from the body. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 15(1), 123-135.
  34. Wear, D., Jones, T., & Nixon, L. (1999). Making meaning of illness. The Pharos, 62(1), 33-38.
  35. Wear, D. (1998). On white coats and professional development: The formal and hidden curriculum. Annals of Internal Medicine, 129(19), 734-737.
  36. Wear, D. (1997). Medical student professional development: Problems and promises. Academic Medicine, 72(12), 1056-1063.
  37. Wear, D. (1997). On making spectacles of ourselves: Resisting the medicalized body. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing,13(2), 27-31.
  38. Wear, D. (1997). Border crossings in medical education. The Pharos, 60(1), 22-26.
  39. Wear, D. (1996). Between silences and scripts. Curriculum Inquiry, 26(3), 307-320.
  40. Wear, D. (1996). What's feminism got to do with it? New Physician ,45(4), 13-14.
  41. Wear, D. (1995). Becoming our sources. Journal of Medical Humanities, 16(3), 201-214.
  42. Wear, D. (1995). (My) spirituality in medical education. Journal of Pastoral Psychology, 43(5), 353-360.
  43. Wear, D. (1994). Feminist theorizing in literature and medicine. The Pharos, 57(4), 27-31.
  44. Wear, D. (1994). Feminism in medical education: Problems and promises. Journal of the American Medical Women's Association, 49(2), 43-47.
  45. Kohn, M.F., & Wear, D. (1994). The depiction of medical education in medical school catalogs. Academic Medicine, 69(1), 68-69.
  46. Wear, D. (1993). Literary images of menopause. Family Medicine, 25(9), 589-592.
  47. Wear, D. (1993). Your breasts/sliced off. Women and Health, 20(4), 81-100.
  48. Wear, D. (1992). The colonization of the medical humanities. Journal of Medical Humanities, 13(4), 199-210.
  49. Nixon, L.L., & Wear, D. (1993). Literature and informed consent. Law, Medicine, and Health Care, 19(3-4), 291-295.
  50. Wear, D., & Hawthorne, R. (1991). No matter how you slice it. Teaching Education, 4(1).
  51. Wear, D., & Nixon, L.L. ( 1991). Try thinking about it this way: Redescribing women and aging. Journal of Women and Aging, 3(4), 117-125.
  52. Wear, D. (1991). Painters and patients: How art informs physicians. Family Medicine, 23(3), 241-247.
  53. Nixon, L.L., & Wear D. (1991). Home burial and dead baby: Poetic perspectives in health care education. Journal of Death and Dying, 23(3), 241-247.
  54. Wear, D., & Nixon, L.L. (1991). The fictional world: What literature says to health professionals. Journal of Medical Humanities, 12(2), 55-64.
  55. Wear, D., & Nixon, L.L. (1991). Scoot down to the edge of the table, hon: Women's medical experiences portrayed in literature. The Pharos, 54(1), 7-11.
  56. Wear, D. (1991). Cubism and the medical school curriculum. Journal of Death and Dying, 22(1), 35-41.
  57. Wear, D. (1990). A pedagogy of bliss. Educational Forum, 54(3), 283-291.
  58. Wear, D., & Nixon, L.L. (1990). Is there a text in this class? Journal of Medical Humanities, 11(1), 45-53.
  59. Wear, D. (1990). Mechanization, malaise, and the vertical search: What Walker Percy says to teachers. Teaching and Learning, 4(2), 2-8.
  60. Wear, D. (1989). Instructional issues in the medical humanities. JournalofMedical Humanities, 10(1), 13-21.
  61. Wear, D. (1989). Enlarging the teacher education canon: What literature says to preservice teachers. Journal of Teacher Education, 40(1).
  62. Wear, D. (1989). Cadaver talk: Medical students' accounts of their year-long experience. Death Studies, 13, 379-391.
  63. Wear, D. (1987). Medical students' encounters with the cadaver: A poetic response. DeathStudies, 11(2), 123-130.
  64. Wear, D., & Kohn, M.F. (1985). Medical student as poet. MedicalHeritage, September/October, 13-15.
  65. Kohn, M., Wear, D., & Saltzman, G. (1984). Gathering facts and gathering visions. LiteratureandMedicine, 3, 102-104.

Books (Edited/authored):

  1. Doll, M., Wear, D., & Whitaker, M. (2007). Deep curriculum: Triple takes from unspoken territories. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
  2. Wear, D., & Aultman, J. (Eds.). (2006). Professionalism in medicine: Critical perspectives. NY: Springer.
  3. Wear, D., & Bickel, J. (Eds.). (2001). Educating for professionalism: Creating a culture of humanism in medical education. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
  4. Wear, D. (1997). Privilege in the medical academy: A feminist examines gender, race,and power. NY: Teachers College Press (Columbia University).
  5. Wear, D. (Ed.). (1996). Women in medical education. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
  6. Gilchrist, V., & Wear, D. (Eds.). (1995). Literature and medicine monograph. Kansas City MO: Society for Teachers of Family Medicine.
  7. Wear, D., & Nixon, L.L. (1994). Literary anatomies: Women's bodies and health in literature. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
  8. Wear, D. (Ed.). (1993). The center of the web: Women and solitude. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
  9. Kohn, M., Donley, C., & Wear, D. (Eds.). (1992). Literature and aging. Kent OH: Kent State University Press.
  10. Reynolds, R., & Stone, J. (Eds.); Nixon, L.L., & Wear, D. (Assistant Eds.). (1991). On Doctoring. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1991, 1995, First and Second edition.
  11. Wear, D., Kohn, M., & Stocker, S. (Eds.). (1987). Literatureandmedicine: Aclaimforadiscipline. McLean, VA: Society for Health and Human Values.

Articles, chapters and reviews (*denotes invited):

  1. *Wear, D. On outcomes and humility (invited commentary). Academic Medicine. (In press)
  2. *Wear, D. Commentary on multiculturalism. In J. Spandorfer, T. Nasca, S. Rattner, & C. Pohl (Eds.), Medical professionalism. New York: Cambridge University Press. (In press)
  3. Wear, D. (2007). Review of Stories of illness and healing: Women write their bodies. Journal of the American Medical Association, 298(24), 2916-2917.
  4. Wear, D. (2007). Medicine and the arts. Commentary on “Scenes from a mastectomy.” Academic Medicine, 82(12), 1196-1197.
  5. *Wear, D. (2006, October). Trends and transitions in the medical humanities. AAMC Reporter. Washington, DC: Association of American Medical Schools.
  6. *Wear, D. (2006). Review of The caregiver’s tale: Loss and renewal in memoirs of family life. Journal of the American Medical Association, 296(6), 705-706.
  7. Wear, D. (2006). Teaching respect: A case study of the formal and hidden curriculum. In D. Wear & J. Aultman (Eds.), Professionalism in medicine: Critical perspectives. NY: Springer.
  8. *Wear, D. (2005). Review of Bodies in a broken world. National Women’s Studies Journal, 17(3), 205-206.
  9. *Wear, D. (2005). Review of The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation. Literature and Medicine, 23, 378-381.
  10. Wear, D. (2004). Medicine and the arts. Commentary on Laundry. Academic Medicine, 79(10), 962.
  11. Wear, D. (2003). Review of Prozac on the couch. New England Journal of Medicine, 349, 2369-70.
  12. Wear, D. (2003). The medical humanities at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine: Historical, theoretical, and curricular perspectives. Academic Medicine, 78(10), 997-1000.
  13. *Wear, D. (2002). Review of Iconoclast: Abraham Flexner and a Life in Medicine. New England Journal of Medicine, 347, 2088-89.
  14. Wear, D. (2002). Review of This side of doctoring. Journal of the American Medical Association, 288, 515-516.
  15. Wear, D. & Nixon, L. L. (2001). Medicine and the arts. Commentary on The spirit catches you and you fall down. Academic Medicine, 26(6), 620.
  16. Wear, D. (2001). Review of La Leche League: At the crossroads of medicine, feminism, and religion. Journal of the American Medical Association, 285(16), 2136-37.
  17. Wear, D. (2001). Review of Forged by the knife. New England Journal of Medicine, 344 (21), 1647.
  18. *Wear, D. (2000). Review of Second opinions: Stories of intuition and choice in the changing world of medicine. New England Journal of Medicine,342(17), 1296.
  19. *Wear, D. (2000). (Whose) family values?: A literary inquiry. Family Medicine,32(7).
  20. *Wear, D. (2000). Review of Midwives. Newsletter of the International Network of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 8(1), 14-15.
  21. *Wear, D. (May, 2000). Review of The Sweet Hereafter. Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics Newsletter, 5.
  22. *Wear, D. (2000). Review of H. Raz, Living on the margins: Women writers on breast cancer. Journal of the American Medical Association, 283(4): 539-540.
  23. Wear, D. Writing with/in leftovers. In M. Morris, M. Doll, & W. Pinar (Eds.). How we work. New York: Peter Lang.
  24. Wear, D. (1998). Medicine and the arts. Commentary on Defending Our Lives. Academic Medicine, 73(9), 980-981.
  25. Wear, D. (1997). Commentary on Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter. Academic Medicine, 72(10), Supplement 2, S14-15.
  26. Wear, D. (1997). Medicine and the arts. Commentary on My Own Country. Academic Medicine, 72(3), 128-129.
  27. Wear, D. (1995-6). Guest editor, 2-volume Journal of Medical Humanities, 16(4).
  28. Wear, D. (1994). Furthermore. Commentary on Fat Lady. Academic Medicine, 69(8), 638-639.
  29. Wear, D. (1993). Furthermore. Commentary on On Studying Anatomy. Academic Medicine, 68(2), 136-137.
  30. *Nixon, L.L., & Wear, D. (1993). She opens like a birdcage turning slowly inside out: Giving birth in fiction. In C. Davidson & L. Wagner-Martin (Eds.), The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press.
  31. Nixon, L.L., & Wear, D. (1991). Furthermore. Commentary on Home Burial. Academic Medicine, 22(3), 146-147.
  32. *Wear, D. (1991). Poetry and curriculum inquiry. In W. Schubert & G. Willis (Eds.), Reflections from the heart of educational inquiry. Albany: SUNY Press.
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