Over the last 20 years, the volume of publications on topics in health professions education
(HPE) has increased dramatically. To help the HPE community integrate some of these …

An unprecedented rise in health professions education (HPE) research has led to increasing
attention and interest in knowledge syntheses. There are many different types of knowledge …

Purpose This bibliometric analysis maps the landscape of knowledge syntheses in medical
education. It provides scholars with a roadmap for understanding where the field has been …

The body of medical education research has exploded in recent years. A push for a
communal effort among education researchers to answer the “big questions” and support …

Background A knowledge synthesis attempts to summarize all pertinent studies on a specific
question, can improve the understanding of inconsistencies in diverse evidence, and can …

This issue of Perspectives on Medical Education focuses on meta-research—the study of the
research process. In the call for papers, Maggio and colleagues identified a need to better …

Introduction The growing interest in knowledge translation and implementation science, both
in clinical practice and in health professions education (HPE), is reflected in the number of …

Objectives To systematically identify, define, and classify emerging knowledge synthesis
methods through a scoping review. Study Design and Setting MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE …

Evidence informed approaches to health professions education can ensure accountability to
learners and society in providing meaningful and effective education and helping resource …

The term integrative review has been used in different ways by knowledge synthesis
scholars. Some have considered it broadly, as an overarching term for various types of …