Rate My Professor Katherine Hall

Hall's research specializations cover medical humanities, ethics, clinical reasoning, bioethics—including contested illnesses and philosophy of medicine—ethical issues in general practice and primary care, medical decision-making, uncertainty in medical education, and ancient medical history. She provides media commentary on these topics. Notable publications include: "Identifying threshold concepts in postgraduate general practice training: a focus group, qualitative study" (BMJ Open, 2022); "Commentary on an excerpt from the Catoptrum Microcosmicum" (Academic Medicine, 2022); "There is a huge need, and it's growing endlessly": Perspectives of mental health service providers to ethnic Chinese in Aotearoa New Zealand (New Zealand Medical Journal, 2022); "Did Alexander the Great die from Guillain-Barré syndrome?" (Ancient History Bulletin, 2018); "Demetrius Poliorcetes: Did he suffer from Narcissistic Personality Disorder?" (Australasian Society for Classical Studies Proceedings, 2020); "Medical decision-making: an argument for narrative and metaphor" (Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 2002); and "Decision-making in intensive care – a reply to Sundstrom" (Health Care Analysis, 1994). She supervises PhD theses on medical uncertainty and mental health service experiences.