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Happy bedfellows

Happy bedfellows Adv in Health Sci Educ (2015) 20:839–842 DOI 10.1007/s10459-015-9635-8 EDITORIAL Geoff Norman Published online: 10 September 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 There are many unique things about the community of researchers in health sciences education. Most obvious, in fact, is that it is a community; not a separate community of psychometricians, another of learning theorists, another of simulation people, another of qualitative researchers, and another of practitioners—clinical teachers, basic scientists, etc. These subgroups do exist, and many have their own specialty societies with their own journals and conferences. But these are in addition to, not exclusive of, the common activities and outlets—journals like AHSE, Medical Education, Academic Medicine, and conferences like AMEE, CCME, RIME, ASME, which accept all kinds of research (although, not all kinds of health professions, sad to say). One need only peruse any issue of Advances to see an apparently random potpourri of research approaches. The last issue contained nine qualitative studies. This issue, there are seven experimental studies, and many are strongly theory-testing; a point I will return to. The studies represent the full range of research methods and disciplines interested in the science of education. Further, though heterogeneous, it is a very congenial, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Advances in Health Sciences Education Springer Journals

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Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2015 by Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
Subject
Education; Medical Education
ISSN
1382-4996
eISSN
1573-1677
DOI
10.1007/s10459-015-9635-8
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26352509
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Abstract

Adv in Health Sci Educ (2015) 20:839–842 DOI 10.1007/s10459-015-9635-8 EDITORIAL Geoff Norman Published online: 10 September 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 There are many unique things about the community of researchers in health sciences education. Most obvious, in fact, is that it is a community; not a separate community of psychometricians, another of learning theorists, another of simulation people, another of qualitative researchers, and another of practitioners—clinical teachers, basic scientists, etc. These subgroups do exist, and many have their own specialty societies with their own journals and conferences. But these are in addition to, not exclusive of, the common activities and outlets—journals like AHSE, Medical Education, Academic Medicine, and conferences like AMEE, CCME, RIME, ASME, which accept all kinds of research (although, not all kinds of health professions, sad to say). One need only peruse any issue of Advances to see an apparently random potpourri of research approaches. The last issue contained nine qualitative studies. This issue, there are seven experimental studies, and many are strongly theory-testing; a point I will return to. The studies represent the full range of research methods and disciplines interested in the science of education. Further, though heterogeneous, it is a very congenial,

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Advances in Health Sciences EducationSpringer Journals

Published: Sep 9, 2015

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