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 …

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 …

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 …

The expectation that the primary function of systematic reviews in medical education is to
guide the development of professional practice requires basic standards to make the reports …

The number of medical education scoping reviews has been on the rise for the past few
decades. 1 A recent bibliometric analysis of knowledge syntheses, published in 14 core …

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 Researchers and practitioners rely on literature reviews to synthesize large
bodies of knowledge. Many types of literature reviews have been developed, each targeting …

Introduction Knowledge syntheses in medical education are intended to promote the
translation to, and mobilization of, research knowledge into practice. Despite the effort …

Background To support evidence-informed education, health professions education (HPE)
stakeholders encourage the creation and use of knowledge syntheses or reviews. However …

For the past two decades, there have been calls for medical education to become more
evidence-based. Whilst previous works have described how to use such methods, there are …