University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Wilson Centre for Research in Education, Division of General Internal Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Department of Medicine, University Health Network, University of Toronto, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract. 2024 Sep;29(4):1071-1073. doi: 10.1007/s10459-024-10362-y.
This column is intended to address the kinds of knotty problems and dilemmas with which many scholars grapple in studying health professions education. In this article, the authors focus on how to help mentees take an analytic approach to improve their mixed methods work. Mixed methods research has increased in popularity and with that comes both strengths and weaknesses in these studies. We suggest key elements to look for when reading a mixed methods research paper. We also provide guidance around weaknesses we have noticed in reporting.
本专栏旨在探讨许多学者在研究健康职业教育时所面临的棘手问题和困境。本文的作者重点介绍如何帮助指导对象采用分析方法来改进他们的混合方法研究。混合方法研究越来越受欢迎，随之而来的是这些研究的优势和劣势。我们建议在阅读混合方法研究论文时需要注意的关键要素。我们还提供了有关我们在报告中注意到的弱点的指导。
