Dr Eleonora Leopardi is passionate about preparing current medical students to face the healthcare challenges that humanity will face in the next 50 years.

Nora believes in fostering self-directed and self-regulated learning in students from the earliest stages of their training, in order to prepare them for continuous professional development and lifelong learning throughout their career.

At the core of her work, Nora wants to prepare her students to thrive in the rapidly changing healthcare and technology landscape they will encounter, to provide high-quality and sensitive care for their patients, and to be positive agents of change in their communities, in society, and for the whole world.

Nora’s PhD research has explored the medical school learning environment and its influence over the students’ learning strategies. The multi-sited ethnography she conducted has demonstrated the crucial role played by student culture in influencing the students’ attitude and behaviour towards learning medicine and becoming doctors. Moreover, the study has highlighted the effect of the geo-socio-political context of the medical school over the environment within the institution.

Her future work involves creating a productive and dynamic learning environment through disruptive educational innovations.