Studying how healthcare professionals make meaning of what cannot be solved.
01 — The lab
Read the concept noteexistentials:LAB is an international scholarly collective for existential inquiry in healthcare and health professions education, affiliated with the Wilson Centre and The Institute for Education Research (TIER).
We study how clinicians make meaning of problems that cannot be re:solved, only worked with: finitude, uncertainty, freedom, and belonging.
02 — The question
Three lines of inquiryHow do healthcare professionals make meaning of problems that cannot be re:solved, only worked with?
03 — Projects
All projects04 — Publications
Full record05 — Who we are
The collective
Christian Schulz-Quach
Sara Rashighi
The lab is a collective rather than a single research program. Its International Scientific Council, Trainee Council, and Lived Experience Advisory are forming through 2026–27, by invitation.
06 — The mark
On the colonThe colon is the one piece of grammar that is allowed to be finished and unfinished at once.