List of ContributorsForeword by Brian HodgesForeword from ASMEForeword from AMEEPrefacePart I Developing your practice as a health professions education researcher1. Exploring versus measuring: considering the fundamental differences between qualitative and quantitative researchJennifer Cleland2. Theory in healthcare education research: the importance of worldviewWendy McMillan3. Constructivism: Learning Theories and Approaches to ResearchAnna MacLeod, Sarah Burm, and Karen Mann4. Widening access to medicine: using mid-range theory to extend knowledge and understandingSandra Nicholson, Kirsty Alexander, Maeve Coyle, and Jennifer Cleland5. Developing the research question: setting the course for your research travelsJaunita Bezuidenhout, Champion Nyoni, Rhoda Meyer, and Susan van Schalkwyk6. Researching technology use in health professions education: questions, theories, approachesRachel Ellaway7. Power analyses: planning, conducting and evaluating education researchR. Brent Stansfield and Larry Gruppen8. Navigating health professions education research: exploring your researcher identity, topic and communityJanneke M. Frambach, Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, Pim Teunissen, and Susan van Schalkwyk9. How to tell compelling scientific stories: tips for artful use of the research manuscript and presentation genresLorelei Lingard and Erik DriessenPart II Methodologies and methods for health professions education research10. What is known already: Reviewing evidence in health professions educationMorris Gordon11. Qualitative research methodologies: embracing methodological borrowing, shifting and importingLara Varpio, Maria Athina (Tina) Martimianakis, and Maria Mylopoulos12. Attuning to the social world: Ethnography in health professions education researchSimon Kitto, Janet Alexanian, and Joanne Goldman13. Visual methods in health professions research: purpose, challenges and opportunitiesSayra Cristancho, Kori LaDonna, and Emily Field14. Critical discourse analysis: questioning what we believe to be 'true'Morag Paton, Thirusha Naidu, Rene Wong, Cynthia Whitehead, and Ayelet Kuper15. Functional and Corpus Linguistics in health professions education research: The study of language in useAbigail Konopasky and Brett A. Diaz16. Challenging Epistemological Hegemonies: Researching Inequity and Discrimination in Health Professions EducationSaleem Razack, Andrea Jane McKivett, and Marco Antonio de Carvalho Filho17. Educational Neuroscience: current status and future opportunitiesAnke Sambeth, Steven Durning, Minna Huotilainen, and Anique de BruinPart III Theory informing health professions education research18. Sticking with messy realities: complexityAlan Bleakley and Jennifer Cleland19. Activity theoryJenny Johnston and Helen Reid20. Disentangling humans, technologies and things: Sociomaterial research in health professions educationRola Ajjawi, Margaret Bearman, and Anna MacLeod21. Social cognitive theory: thinking and learning in social settingsDario Torre and Steven J. Durning22. Learning and participatory practices at work: Understanding and appraising learning through workplace experiencesStephen Billett, Linda Sweet, and Christy Noble23. Health behaviour theories: a conceptual lens to explore behaviour changeFrancois Cilliers, Christina St-Onge, and Cees van der Vleuten24. Self-regulated learning in HPE: theoretical perspectives and research methodsAnthony R. Artino Jr., Adam Gavarkovs, Ryan Brydges, and Larry D. Gruppen25. Emotions and learning: cognitive theoretical and methodological approaches to studying the influence of emotions on learningMeghan McConnell and Kevin Eva26. Research on instructional design in the health professions: from taxonomies of learning to whole-task modelsJimmy Frèrejean, Diana H.J.M Dolmans, and Jeroen K. G. van Merrienboer27. Cognitive load theory: researching and planning teaching to maximise learningAdam Szulewski, Tamara van Gog, Fred Paas, and John Sweller28. Deliberate practice and mastery learning: origins of expert medical performanceWilliam C.l McGaghie and Theresa Kristopaitis29. Closing comments: Building and sustaining capacityDavid Taylor and Trevor Gibbs30. ConclusionJennifer Cleland and Steven J. DurninIndex
Jennifer Cleland Vice-Dean, Education; Professor of Medical Education Research; and Director of Medical Education Research & Scholarship Unit, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.Steven J. Durning Professor of Medicine and Pathology; and Director of Graduate Programs in Health Professions Education at the Uniformed Services University (USU), USA.