HarrellGuides: Medical Education Research: Preparing for Your Project

Sources of Justification for Medical Education Research

These documents outline recommendations and standards for undergraduate and graduate medical education.

Educating Physicians by Molly Cooke; David M. Irby
ISBN: 9780470457979

Publication Date: 2010

The new "Carnegie Report," describes shifts that are recommended in U.S. medical education. Applies adult learning theory to the medical education landscape. This is a link to the online version provided through Penn State University Libraries; Harrell Health Sciences Library also has a print copy; inquire at main desk.
Core Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) for Entering Residency by Association of American Medical Colleges
ISBN: 9780000901019

Publication Date: 2014-05-28

Free online AAMC document outlines 13 professional activities that a medical school graduate should be able to perform on Day One of residency.
Function and Structures of a Medical School: LCME Accreditation Standards by Liaison Committee on Medical Education
Useful for justifying educational research that is relevant to one or more medical school accreditation standards. FREE ONLINE
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education: Milestones by Specialty
Free online. Outlines specific skills that residents are expected to master in residency programs for various specialties. Check to see whether skills that you teach are addressed by any of these milestones.
Institute of Medicine reports on Medical Education topics
Browse the list medical education-related reports. FREE DOWNLOADABLE EBOOKS

Developing scholarly projects in education: A primer for medical teachers.
Outlines how to formulate a question, select a study design, and choose outcomes of interest.
Medical education scholarship: an introductory guide: AMEE Guide No. 89.
Overview of the entire education research process, from formulating research questions to assessing the impact of your research.
Boyer's expanded definitions of scholarship, the standards for assessing scholarship, and the elusiveness of the scholarship of teaching.
Describes six standards of excellence for education scholarship, and how it differs from other forms of academic scholarship.
Getting started on your research: practical advice for medical educators
Eight tips for faculty seeking to acquire or improve their medical education research skills.

Description, justification and clarification: a framework for classifying the purposes of research in medical education.
Describes different types of research in medical education and encourages clarification studies which ask "why or how did it work," requiring qualitative research methods.
Getting started in medical education scholarship.
Tips for asking good questions; outlines threats to study validity.
Developing research questions in medical education: the science and the art..
Presents criteria for publication-worthy research questions.
Research in medical education: asking the right questions.
Argues that medical education research should be grounded in a theoretical framework and that authors should be explicit about the educational philosophies underpinning the research.
"The research compass: an introduction to research in medical education: AMEE Guide no. 56.
Basic primer on research. Describes general categories of medical education research: explorative, experimental, observational, and translational.