The rich potential for education research in family medicine and general practice
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The rich potential for education research in family medicine and general practice Lawrence Grierson1,2 · Meredith Vanstone1,2 Received: 21 February 2020 / Accepted: 21 September 2020 © Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract Medical education is a rapidly growing field of research, incorporating diverse disciplinary perspectives to assist physician trainees in developing the complex skills needed for practice. Education science is happening in many medical specialties; however, Family Medicine or General Practice settings have not seen a proportional share of theory-driven education research. The limited nature of education research in Family Medicine is surprising, given that there are several aspects of general practice that make it a particularly unique and interesting context to study issues of general importance to medical education, and there is a particular need for education research to further the discipline of Family Medicine. It is important that the community of medical education researchers in Family Medicine have a strong understanding and perspective on the breadth and potential impact of their work, and what this means for the training that occurs within and for the discipline. This Reflection aims to inform strategic thinking, collaboration, and innovation in medical education research as it pertains to Family Medicine. It does so by discussing four hallmarks of Family Medicine practice and outlining their independent and interactive potential for medical education research. Keywords Family medicine · General practice · Medical education · Medical education research
Introduction Academic departments of Family Medicine are in a privileged position to play a leadership role in linking knowledge generated in academic centres with medical practice…Family Medicine educational research, while still underdeveloped, is therefore of critical importance not only for the sake of the discipline but also for academic
* Lawrence Grierson [email protected] 1
Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, 100 Main St. W, Hamilton, ON L8P 1H6, USA
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McMaster FHS Program for Education Research, Innovation, and Theory (MERIT), McMaster University, Hamilton, USA
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institutions to be able to educate Family Physicians who are competent (Rodríguez et al. 2015). Medical education is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of research, uniting diverse perspectives in the endeavour to assist medical trainees in developing the complex skills needed for practice (Norman 2011a, b; Regehr 2010). As the field has matured, scholarly contributions have become both deeper and broader, propelled by theory-based research encompassing a range of disciplinary perspectives and clinical contexts. However, as noted by two recent reviews of education research conducted in Family Medicine and General Practice settings, this clinical discipline has not kept pace with the move of medical education towards theoretically-driven work (Brown et al. 2019; Webster et al. 2015). Edu
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