Introduction
This guide is intended to help faculty, clinicians, students, and staff at UC Davis identify information resources (databases, journals, books/e-books, professional organizations, and library guides) to support their medical education research-related scholarly projects.
Note: See Off-Campus Access to learn about your options for remote access to licensed online resources.
Goal of Medical Education Research
"Medical education research improves teaching and training strategies, helps determine effective policies for the field, and shapes the future of clinical practice." Source: OSMOSIS Blog
Medical education research scholarship "drives the practice of medical education forward, affecting how we educate trainees and ourselves, what we know about each other and our institutions, and how we identify and close gaps in our understanding of important topics." Source: American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC)
Getting Started
Use this selected list of resources to help you get started with your medical education research project.
- Fostering Scholarship in Medical Education: Resources for Authors and Reviewers (AAMC)This is a toolkit of resources for authors and reviewers who are undertaking medical education research-related scholarly projects.
- Researching Medical Education by RESEARCHING MEDICAL EDUCATION Researching Medical Education is an authoritative guide to excellence in educational research within the healthcare professions presented by the Association for the Study of Medical Education and AMEE. This text provides readers with key foundational knowledge, while introducing a range of theories and how to use them, illustrating a diversity of methods and their use, and giving guidance on practical researcher development. By linking theory, design, and methods across the spectrum of health professions education research, the text supports the improvement of quality, capacity building, and knowledge generation. Researching Medical Education includes contributions from experts and emerging researchers from five continents. The text includes information on: Developing yourself and your practice as a health professions education researcher Methods and methodologies including ethnography/digital ethnography, visual methods, critical discourse analysis, functional and corpus linguistics, critical pedagogy, critical race theory and participatory action research, and educational neuroscience methods Theories including those where relationships between context, environment, people and things matter (e.g., complexity theory, activity theory, sociomateriality, social cognitive theories and participatory practice) and those which are more individually focused (e.g., health behaviour theories, emotions in learning, instructional design, cognitive load theory and deliberate practice) Includes 10 brand new chapters Researching Medical Education is the ideal resource for anyone researching health professions education, from medical school to postgraduate training to continuing professional development. "This is an extraordinary text that combines theory and practice in medical education research. The authors represent the who's who of medical education research, and their wisdom and insights will help guide novice and experienced researchers alike." --David M. Irby, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA "Research in health professions education is maturing. This is clearly evidenced by the second edition of Researching Medical Education. In 30 chapters this book takes you on an exciting voyage on research theories and research methodologies. This book is a comprehensive resource for anyone engaging in research in health professions education." -- Cees van der Vleuten, former Director of the School of Health Professions Education, Maastricht University, The NetherlandsCall Number: E-BookISBN: 9781119839439Publication Date: 2022-12-16
- Medical Education Journals at UC Davis Library [BrowZine]Browse medical education journals on the BrowZine platform.
- PubMed for UC Davis This link opens in a new windowPubMed for UC Davis offers users vastly more full-text articles than does the public version of Pubmed.gov. Search results in the UCD version display "Get it at UC" buttons providing (with on-campus or VPN connection) access to articles in journals licensed by UC Davis or enabling patrons to request articles that are not immediately available online. PubMed comprises over 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. [Coverage: 1902-present]