J.L. Sewell is associate professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
A.N. Leep Hunderfund is associate professor, Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
Acad Med. 2020 Nov;95(11S Association of American Medical Colleges Learn Serve Lead: Proceedings of the 59th Annual Research in Medical Education Presentations):S1-S6. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003647.
In this Commentary, the authors seek to build on prior RIME commentaries by considering how researchers transition from worldviews, focal lengths, and research goals to research directions and methodological choices. The authors use the analogy of a hiker to illustrate how different researchers studying a similar phenomenon can choose among different research directions, which lead down different paths and offer different perspectives on a problem. Following the hiker analogy, the authors use the "Research Compass" to categorize the 15 research papers included in the 2020 Research in Medical Education supplement according to their research aim and corresponding methodological approach. The authors then discuss implications of the relative balance of these study types within this supplement and within health professions education research at large, emphasizing the critical importance of studying a topic from multiple vantage points to construct a richer and more nuanced understanding of health professions education challenges. The authors conclude by recognizing the challenges we face in the current era of COVID-19 and by calling health professions education researchers and practitioners to continue our collective efforts to improve learner education and patient care, as we together navigate the unfamiliar terrain of the present day.
在这篇评论中，作者试图在前几篇 RIME 评论的基础上进行探讨，思考研究人员如何从世界观、焦点和研究目标转变为研究方向和方法选择。作者使用徒步旅行者的类比来说明，研究同一现象的不同研究人员可以在不同的研究方向之间进行选择，这些方向会引导他们走上不同的道路，并从不同的角度看待一个问题。遵循徒步旅行者的类比，作者使用“研究指南针”根据研究目的和相应的方法，将 2020 年医学教育研究增刊中的 15 篇研究论文进行分类。然后，作者讨论了本增刊和整个卫生专业教育研究中这些研究类型相对平衡的意义，强调了从多个角度研究一个主题对于构建更丰富、更细致的卫生专业教育挑战理解的重要性。作者最后承认，我们在当前 COVID-19 时代面临挑战，并呼吁卫生专业教育研究人员和从业者继续共同努力，改善学习者教育和患者护理，因为我们共同探索当今这个陌生的领域。
