Asking new questions with qualitative research: a reflection on AMEE 2009.

摘要

As recently as five years ago, the medical education journals were rife with articles (Albert 2004; Bligh 2003; Norman 1998) arguing about the nature and contents of appropriate research in medical education. Despite inroads that had been made, as qualitative researchers "we still felt like we were struggling to justify our places in the medical education research community. It was a big deal to be accepted to present qualitative work at a medical education conference, and many of us had worked, over the years, to make our methodologies and theoretical frameworks more accessible and more palatable to quantitative audiences.