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Researching Medical Education. Edition No. 2

  • Book

  • 368 Pages
  • January 2023
  • John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • ID: 5840579
RESEARCHING MEDICAL EDUCATION

Researching Medical Education is an authoritative guide to excellence in educational research within the healthcare professions presented by the Association for the Study of Medical Education and AMEE. This text provides readers with key foundational knowledge, while introducing a range of theories and how to use them, illustrating a diversity of methods and their use, and giving guidance on practical researcher development. By linking theory, design, and methods across the spectrum of health professions education research, the text supports the improvement of quality, capacity building, and knowledge generation.

Researching Medical Education includes contributions from experts and emerging researchers from five continents. The text includes information on: - Developing yourself and your practice as a health professions education researcher - Methods and methodologies including ethnography/digital ethnography, visual methods, critical discourse analysis, functional and corpus linguistics, critical pedagogy, critical race theory and participatory action research, and educational neuroscience methods - Theories including those where relationships between context, environment, people and things matter (e.g., complexity theory, activity theory, sociomateriality, social cognitive theories and participatory practice) and those which are more individually focused (e.g., health behaviour theories, emotions in learning, instructional design, cognitive load theory and deliberate practice) - Includes 10 brand new chapters

Researching Medical Education is the ideal resource for anyone researching health professions education, from medical school to postgraduate training to continuing professional development.

“This is an extraordinary text that combines theory and practice in medical education research. The authors represent the who’s who of medical education research, and their wisdom and insights will help guide novice and experienced researchers alike.”
- David M. Irby, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA

“Research in health professions education is maturing. This is clearly evidenced by the second edition of Researching Medical Education. In 30 chapters this book takes you on an exciting voyage on research theories and research methodologies. This book is a comprehensive resource for anyone engaging in research in health professions education.”
- Cees van der Vleuten, former Director of the School of Health Professions Education, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

Table of Contents

List of Contributors 

Foreword by Brian Hodges

Foreword from ASME

Foreword from AMEE

Preface

Part I Developing your practice as a health professions education researcher

1.  Exploring versus measuring: considering the fundamental differences between qualitative and quantitative research

Jennifer Cleland

2. Theory in healthcare education research: the importance of worldview

Wendy McMillan

3. Constructivism: Learning Theories and Approaches to Research 

Anna MacLeod, Sarah Burm, and Karen Mann

4. Widening access to medicine: using mid-range theory to extend knowledge and understanding

Sandra Nicholson, Kirsty Alexander, Maeve Coyle, and Jennifer Cleland

5. Developing the research question: setting the course for your research travels

Jaunita Bezuidenhout, Champion Nyoni, Rhoda Meyer, and Susan van Schalkwyk

6. Researching technology use in health professions education: questions, theories, approaches

Rachel Ellaway

7. Power analyses: planning, conducting and evaluating education research

R. Brent Stansfield and Larry Gruppen

8. Navigating health professions education research: exploring your researcher identity, topic and community

Janneke M. Frambach, Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, Pim Teunissen, and Susan van Schalkwyk

9. How to tell compelling scientific stories: tips for artful use of the research manuscript and presentation genres

Lorelei Lingard and Erik Driessen

Part II Methodologies and methods for health professions education research

10. What is known already: Reviewing evidence in health professions education

Morris Gordon

11. Qualitative research methodologies: embracing methodological borrowing, shifting and importing

Lara Varpio, Maria Athina (Tina) Martimianakis, and Maria Mylopoulos

12. Attuning to the social world: Ethnography in health professions education research

Simon Kitto, Janet Alexanian, and Joanne Goldman

13. Visual methods in health professions research: purpose, challenges and opportunities

Sayra Cristancho, Kori LaDonna, and Emily Field

14. Critical discourse analysis: questioning what we believe to be ‘true’

Morag Paton, Thirusha Naidu, Rene Wong, Cynthia Whitehead, and Ayelet Kuper

15. Functional and Corpus Linguistics in health professions education research: The study of language in use

Abigail Konopasky and Brett A. Diaz

16. Challenging Epistemological Hegemonies:  Researching Inequity and Discrimination in Health Professions Education

Saleem Razack, Andrea Jane McKivett, and Marco Antonio de Carvalho Filho

17. Educational Neuroscience: current status and future opportunities

Anke Sambeth, Steven Durning, Minna Huotilainen, and Anique de Bruin

Part III Theory informing health professions education research

18. Sticking with messy realities: complexity

Alan Bleakley and Jennifer Cleland  

19. Activity theory

Jenny Johnston and Helen Reid

20. Disentangling humans, technologies and things:  Sociomaterial research in health professions education

Rola Ajjawi, Margaret Bearman, and Anna MacLeod

21. Social cognitive theory: thinking and learning in social settings

Dario Torre and Steven J. Durning

22. Learning and participatory practices at work: Understanding and appraising learning through workplace experiences

Stephen Billett, Linda Sweet, and Christy Noble

23. Health behaviour theories: a conceptual lens to explore behaviour change

Francois Cilliers, Christina St-Onge, and Cees van der Vleuten

24. Self-regulated learning in HPE: theoretical perspectives and research methods

Anthony R. Artino Jr., Adam Gavarkovs, Ryan Brydges, and Larry D. Gruppen

25. Emotions and learning: cognitive theoretical and methodological approaches to studying the influence of emotions on learning

Meghan McConnell and Kevin Eva

26. Research on instructional design in the health professions: from taxonomies of learning to whole-task models

Jimmy Frèrejean, Diana H.J.M Dolmans, and Jeroen K. G. van Merrienboer

 27. Cognitive load theory: researching and planning teaching to maximise learning

Adam Szulewski, Tamara van Gog, Fred Paas, and John Sweller

28. Deliberate practice and mastery learning:  origins of expert medical performance

William C.l McGaghie and Theresa Kristopaitis

29. Closing comments: Building and sustaining capacity

David Taylor and Trevor Gibbs

30. Conclusion

Jennifer Cleland and Steven J. Durnin

Index

Authors

Jennifer Cleland Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Steven J. Durning Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD, USA.