Resources for Scholarship and Research in Medical Education

Resources below are introductions to medical education scholarship, especially for those earlier in their careers or making a switch to medical education

• Boyer's Expanded Definitions of Scholarship, The Standards for Assessing Scholarship, and the Elusiveness of the Scholarship of Teaching
  Glassick CE. Academic Medicine. 2002; 75: 877-880
• Medical education scholarship: An introductory guide (AMEE Guide No. 89).
  Crites et al. (2014) Medical Teacher 36: 657-674.
• The research compass: An introduction to research in medical education (AMEE Guide No. 56)
  Ringsted et al. Medical Teacher. 2011; 33(9):695-709
• How to succeed as a medical education scholar: Identifying your individual strategy and creating a roadmap for scholarship
  Uijtdehaage S et al. MedEdPORTAL Publications; 2013. Pub No. 9472.

All the articles below explain what a conceptual framework is, guide the use of a conceptual framework and provide examples.

• Conceptual frameworks to illuminate and magnify
  Bordage G. Medical Education 2009: 43: 312-319
• AM Last Page: Conceptual Frameworks to Guide Research and Development (R&D) in Health Professions Education 
  Bordage G et al. Academic Medicine 2016: 91(12): e2
• What's next? A guiding question for educators engaged in educational research
  Eva KW, Lingard L. Medical Education 2008; 42: 752-4
• Enhancing Educational Scholarship Through Conceptual Frameworks: A Challenge and Roadmap for Medical Educators
  Zackoff MW et al. Academic Pediatrics. 2019; 19(2): 135-14

• Developing research questions in medical education: the science and the art
  Morrison J. Medical Education. 2002; 36(7): 596-7.
• Research questions, hypotheses and objectives
  Farrugia et al. Canadian Journal of Surgery. 2010; 53(4):278-81
• AM Last Page: Generating Good Research Questions in Health Professions Education
  Dine CJ et al. Academic Medicine. 2016; 91(2): e8

• Research paradigms in medical education research
  Bunnis S & Kelly DR. Medical Education. 2010; 44(4): 358-366
• Experimental study design and grant writing in eight steps and 28 questions
  Bordage G & Dawson B. Medical Education. 2003; 37(4): 376-385
• Classifying basic research designs
  Burkett GL. Family Medicine. 1990; 22(2):143-8
• Twelve tips for getting started using mixed methods in medical education research
  Lavelle E et al. Medical Teacher 2013; 35(4): 272-6
• AM last page. Understanding qualitative and quantitative research paradigms in academic medicine.
  Castillo-Page et al. Academic Medicine 2012; 87(3):386
• AM Last Page: Avoiding Five Common Pitfalls of Experimental Research in Medical Education.
  Van Loon MH et al. Academic Medicine. 2013; 88(10): 1588
• AM Last Page: A Guide to Research Paradigms Relevant to Medical Education
  Bergman E et al. Academic Medicine 2012; 87(4):545

• Reliability and validity in educational measurement.
  Artino A et al. Academic Medicine. 2010; 85(9): 1545
• Current concepts in validity and reliability for psychometric instruments: theory and application.
  Cook DA & Beckman TJ. American Journal of Medicine. 2006; 119(2):166.e7-16.