Over the past decade, readers of medical journals have gained skills in critically appraising
studies to determine whether the results can be trusted and applied to their own practice …

Context While medical curricula were traditionally almost entirely comprised of bioscientific
knowledge, widely accepted competency frameworks now make clear that physicians must …

Theories such as interactionism, phenomenology, and critical theory can be used to help
design a research question, guide the selection of relevant data, interpret the data, and …

“Me Too” as a slogan to increase awareness about sexual assault dates back about a dozen
years, but it has really taken off in the past 2 years as the issue has garnered widespread …

The previous articles (there were 2 before this 1) in this series discussed several methodological
approaches commonly used by qualitative researchers in the health professions. This …

… Ayelet Kuper, assistant professor1, … Correspondence to: A Kuper ayelet94{at}post.harvard.edu …
The series editors are Ayelet Kuper and Scott Reeves. …

Purpose To systematically review published quality improvement (QI) and patient safety (PS)
curricula for medical students and/or residents to (1) determine educational content and …

Seventy six senior academics from 11 countries invite The BMJ’s editors to reconsider their
policy of rejecting qualitative research on the grounds of low priority. They challenge the …

Issue Practices of systemic and structural racism that advantage some groups over others
are embedded in American society. Institutions of higher learning are increasingly being …

Quantitative scores fail to capture all important features of learner performance. This awareness
has led to increased use of qualitative data when assessing health professionals. Yet …