How To Do Primary Care Educational Research

A Practical Guide

Mehmet Akman, Valerie Wass, Felicity Goodyear-Smith, Mehmet Akman, Valerie Wass, Felicity Goodyear-Smith

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781000396478
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Family Medicine & General Practice

Primary care is a rapidly growing academic branch of learning and developing its own body of research is the hallmark of a maturing academic discipline. This practical guide is the first designed specifically to support those planning, conducting and disseminating primary care educational research. While research informs clinical practice, organisation of primary care services and teaching the discipline, educational practices and modes of delivery are rapidly changing, particularly in response to new information technologies. Primary care practitioners must be engaged in life-long learning and keep abreast of developments in many arenas and educational research into how to address this has thus become of paramount importance.

Key Features:

• The first 'how-to' guide to designing, conducting and disseminating primary care educational research

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• Focus on inter-professional education, co-design and participatory research approaches, in line with current primary care models of care involving inter-disciplinary teams

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• Wide in scope, exploring the current research environment in the contexts of undergraduate teaching, postgraduate training, continuing professional development, and patient education, for academics and educationalists at all levels

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• Step-by-step introduction to the processes of literature review (establishing the existing knowledge base), choosing a topic, research questions and methodology, conducting research and disseminating results

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• Supported by the WONCA Working Parties on Research and Education

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This book will encourage and upskill academics at universities and institutions teaching primary care in both undergraduate and postgraduate settings, providing support and guidance on how to conduct their own research and evaluate their own programmes, and will help to grow academic research in this discipline in high and, importantly, also low- and middle-income countries.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Editors
• Contributors
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The theoretical underpinnings of primary care educational research
• 3 Underpinning medical education research with the disciplines of sociology and psychology
• 4 Co-creation and participatory processes in medical education research
• 5 Educational research and policymaking
• 6 Scope and research environment
• 7 Integrating primary and secondary care educational research
• 8 Primary care interprofessional educational research
• 9 Research on patient education in primary care
• 10 Finding out what is already known: how to develop a literature review
• 11 Choosing your topic and defining your research question
• 12 Choosing your methodology to answer your question
• 13 Ethical issues for primary care educational research
• 14 Validity and reliability in primary care educational research
• 15 Quantitative study designs
• 16 Big data in primary care educational research
• 17 Social media and the internet in primary care educational research
• 18 Use of the Delphi technique in educational research
• 19 Qualitative methods
• 20 Action research
• 21 Case study research
• 22 Individual interviews and focus groups
• 23 Content analysis: a guide for primary health care education researchers
• 24 Ethnography
• 25 Doing a mixed methods research or evaluation project
• 26 Applying methodologies to the curriculum: researching curriculum development and delivery
• 27 Programme evaluation
• 28 Researching the informal and hidden curriculum
• 29 Mentoring: how to support and mentor early researchers in educational research
• 30 How to develop critical mass and ensure primary care educational innovations and initiatives are evidence-based
• 31 Intercultural aspects in primary care educational research
• 32 Disseminating your primary care educational research
• 33 Future challenges in primary care educational research
• 34 Conclusive remarks
• Index