Full Description
Foundations of Health Professions Education Research Understand the principles, perspectives, and practices for researching health professions education with this accessible introduction
Educating healthcare students and professionals is critical to the long-term improvement of human health. Health professions education research (HPER) is a growing field with enormous potential to enrich the education of medical, nursing, and allied health students and professionals. There is still, however, an urgent need for a textbook focusing on the foundations of HPER that will help new and existing HPE researchers ground their work in research philosophies, evidence-based methodologies, and proven best practices.
Foundations of Health Professions Education Research meets this need with a broad-based and accessible introduction to the foundations of HPER. Rooted in the latest theoretical and methodological advances, this book takes a global and interdisciplinary approach, designed to provide the widest possible range of backgrounds with a working knowledge of HPER. It promises to become an indispensable contribution to this growing field of increasingly rigorous research.
Foundations of Health Professions Education Research readers will also find:
An authorial team with decades of combined HPER experience on multiple continents
Educational features such as learning outcomes, illustrative case studies, discussion points, and exercises to facilitate understanding and retention
Detailed discussion of different approaches to HPER including scientific, realist, interpretivist, critical, and pragmatic approaches alongside a range of topics taking you through your entire research journey
Foundations of Health Professions Education Research is a useful reference for both new and experienced HPE researchers, including postgraduate students studying HPER.
Contents
Foreword: Foundations? ix
About the Editors xii
Author Contributions xiv
Acknowledgements xix
Chapter 1 Introducing Foundations of Health Professions Education Research 1
Charlotte E. Rees, and Lynn V. Monrouxe
Part I Principles 11
Chapter 2 Theory in Health Professions Education Research 13
Charlotte E. Rees, Lulu Alwazzan, and Lisi J. Gordon
Chapter 3 Ethics in Health Professions Education Research 36
Lynn V. Monrouxe, Ghufran Jassim, and Bridget C. O'Brien
Chapter 4 Quality in Health Professions Education Research 58
Bridget C. O'Brien, Eliot L. Rees, and Claire Palermo
Part II Perspectives 83
Chapter 5 Introducing Scientific Approaches in Health Professions Education Research 85
Charlotte E. Rees, Jeffrey J.H. Cheung, Jonathan Foo, and Claire Palermo
Chapter 6 Introducing Realist Approaches in Health Professions Education Research 102
Charlotte E. Rees, Paul E.S. Crampton, Van N.B. Nguyen, and Lynn V. Monrouxe
Chapter 7 Introducing Interpretivist Approaches in Health Professions Education Research 122
Lynn V. Monrouxe, Megan E.L. Brown, Ella Ottrey, and Lisi J. Gordon
Chapter 8 Introducing Critical Approaches in Health Professions Education Research 145
Claire Palermo, Nicole Redvers, Gabrielle Brand, and Lisi J. Gordon
Chapter 9 Introducing Pragmatic Approaches in Health Professions Education Research 164
Bridget C. O'Brien, Louise Allen, Ahsan Sethi, Marieke van der Schaaf, and Claire Palermo
Part III Practices 189
Chapter 10 Proposals in Health Professions Education Research 191
Maria A. Blanco, Mahbub Sarkar, and Claire Palermo
Chapter 11 Publishing in Health Professions Education Research 211
Lisi J. Gordon, Anique Atherley, Anna T. Cianciolo, and Bridget C. O'Brien
Chapter 12 Impact in Health Professions Education Research 233
Charlotte E. Rees, Olivia A. King, and Lynn V. Monrouxe
Chapter 13 Concluding Foundations of Health Professions Education Research 254
Lynn V. Monrouxe and Charlotte E. Rees
Afterword: Inspiring Early Career Researcher-led Developments in Health Professions Education Research into the Future 268
Book Glossary 271
Index 288
