FOUNDATIONS OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION RESEAR CH : principles, perspectives and practices

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. Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Foreword: Foundations? About the Editors Author Contributions Acknowledgements CHAPTER 1 Introducing Foundations of Health Professions Education Research PART I Principles CHAPTER 2 Theory in Health Professions Education Research CHAPTER 3 Ethics in Health Professions Education Research CHAPTER 4 Quality in Health Professions Education Research PART II Perspectives CHAPTER 5 Introducing Scientific Approaches in Health Professions Education Research CHAPTER 6 Introducing Realist Approaches in Health Professions Education Research CHAPTER 7 Introducing Interpretivist Approaches in Health Professions Education Research CHAPTER 8 Introducing Critical Approaches in Health Professions Education Research CHAPTER 9 Introducing Pragmatic Approaches in Health Professions Education Research PART III Practices CHAPTER 10 Proposals in Health Professions Education Research CHAPTER 11 Publishing in Health Professions Education Research CHAPTER 12 Impact in Health Professions Education Research CHAPTER 13 Concluding Foundations of Health Professions Education Research Afterword: Inspiring Early Career Researcher-led Developments in Health Professions Education Research into the Future Book Glossary Index End User License Agreement