Ask the Editors: Practical Guidance for Designing and Reporting Qualitative Research

On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, the journal’s editors--Bridget O'Brien, PhD, Jonathan Amiel, MD​, Megan Brown, MBBS(H), PhD, and Laura Hirshfield, PhD--join host Toni Gallo to share practical guidance for designing and reporting qualitative research. They make recommendations for getting started, choosing a methodology, and effectively using published guidelines. Then they dispel common myths …

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Ask the Editors: Send us your research methods questions

Have a question about designing, conducting, or writing up your research? Ask the editors of Academic Medicine! Send us your questions about qualitative and quantitative research methods, and we’ll answer a selection of them on an upcoming episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast. 3 options for submitting your questions:  You can send us your question …

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Including Nurses as Members of the Resident Education Team

On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, guests Chirag Bhat, MD, and Warren Cheung, MD, MMEd, join hosts Toni Gallo and associate editor Teresa Chan, MD, MHPE, to discuss their research into nurses’ perspectives about giving feedback on residents’ clinical performance. They share their findings regarding the unique perspective nurses can offer, the barriers nurses …

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Advancing the Community of Qualitative Research in Health Professions Education: What’s the role of conceptual frameworks in qualitative research?

Editor’s Note: The following post is part of a series of Peer Reviewer Resources written by some of Academic Medicine's top peer reviewers. Read other peer review posts. By: Bridget C. O’Brien, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Medicine and the Office of Research and Development in Medical Education at the University of California, San Francisco When …

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10 Tips for Reviewing a Qualitative Paper

  Editor’s Note: The following post is part of a series of Peer Reviewer Resources written by some of Academic Medicine's top peer reviewers. Read other peer review posts. By: Carol-anne Moulton, MD, FRACS, MEd, PhD, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, and Priyanka Patel, MSc, Wilson Center, University Health Network, University of Toronto This is a …

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