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Looking back to move forward: Using history, discourse and text in medical education research: AMEE Guide No. 73

Looking back to move forward: Using history, discourse and text in medical education research: AMEE Guide No. 73

Ayelet KuperSunnybrook Health Sciences Centre;Department of Medicine;The Wilson Centre; AYELET KUPER, MD, DPhil, is a Scientist at the Wilson Centre for Research in Education (University Health Network/University of Toronto) and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is an active Staff Physician in the division of General Internal Medicine at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. Her research interests include the nature of legitimate knowledge production within medical education research, the history of medical education research, and the roles of the medical humanities and social sciences within medical education.Correspondence[email protected]
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Cynthia WhiteheadThe Wilson Centre;Women's College Hospital;Department of Family and Community Medicine; CYNTHIA WHITEHEAD, MD, PhD, is the Vice-Chair, Education and an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is an active staff physician at Women's College Hospital in Toronto. She is an Educator Researcher at the Wilson Centre for Research in Education (University Health Network) and Education Scientist at the Centre for Ambulatory Care (Women's College Hospital) at the University of Toronto. Her areas of interest include primary care education, outcomes-based education and the history of medical education. Her research focuses on critical discourse analysis of various aspects of health professions education.
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Brian David HodgesThe Wilson Centre;Department of Psychiatry;University Health Network, UHN/University of Toronto, all at the University of Toronto, Canada; BRIAN DAVID HODGES, MD, PhD, is a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Education (OISE/UT) at the University of Toronto, the Richard and Elizabeth Currie Chair in Health Professions Education Research at the Wilson Centre for Research in Education (University Health Network/University of Toronto) and Vice President Education at the University Health Network (Toronto General, Toronto Western, Princess Margaret and Toronto Rehab Hospitals). He leads the AMS Phoenix Project: A Call to Caring, an initiative to rebalance the technical and compassionate dimensions of health care. His research focuses on using Foucauldian-inspired discourse analysis to study various aspects of health professional education and practice: competence, assessment, professionalism and globalization.
Pages e849-e860 | Published online: 21 Dec 2012

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