Oheneba Boadum, MD, MA, MS, PhD — physician, clinical anatomist, and medical educator — Assistant Professor of Clinical Anatomy and Medical Education at the Sam Houston State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, where he also leads radiology in the anatomical sciences. He is the developer of the Empowerment Under Demand (EUD) framework and Director of the B-LEARN Lab.
Medicine, teaching, and research have never been separate careers for me. They are three ways of asking the same question: what actually carries a person through hard formation — and how do those of us who teach make that passage better rather than harder?
That question began in a UNHCR refugee camp clinic, where I served as medical director and physician in charge — caring for people whose formation was being tested by circumstances none of them chose. It has since taken me through the lecture hall and the laboratory and into self-directed learning, wellbeing, motivation, and how students choose what they study from. It is also the question that sits under the ministry, in different words.
Dr. Boadum’s own framework: performance under demand is mediated by an empowered psychological state, built from wellbeing and readiness.
Read about the theory → ResearchFour areas of research in medical education, and the manuscripts and scholarly writing behind them.
See the research → The labEducation, Assessment, Research & Neurocognition — the lab Dr. Boadum directs, and how to join it.
Visit the lab → Working togetherStudy design, analysis, and guidance for students and trainees in the health professions.
How to work together →“God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom.” — Daniel 1:17
