AMEE BEME (Best Evidence Medical and Health Professional Education‪)‬ AMEE BEME

This podcast discusses a published paper in medical teacher www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0142159X.2018.1504164. The confusion that surrounds systematic reviews vs reviews that are systematic is discussed. Michele Daniel from Michigan Medical School presents this work which is also authored with Professor Morris Gordon, BEME Editorial committee chair and Madalena Patricio, BEME chair. She argues that the systematic component of reviews is vital, but does not align methodologically with...

This podcast reports the first focussed BEME review (see twelve tips to focussed review – www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0142159X.2018.1513642). Michelle Daniel, author of the review and deputy chair of the BEME editorial committee summarises this work. This both exemplifies the findings, but also the use of this method.

This 8th BEME podcast builds on a stellar presentation at AMEE 2018 discussing equity in health professions education research. An international collaboration of authors, led by Susan Van Schalkwyk of Stellenbosch University in South Africa and Manuel João Costa from the University of Minho in Portugal, explore: the definition of equity in HPE research; bring in data from their own scholarship to discuss and elucidate the importance of this topic; and make focussed recommendations for the BEM...

Why ‘systematic’ reviews?

Professor Gordon discusses the scholarly discourse around the term systematic when considering reviews in education. He makes the case for why this term indicates an important research alignment and is not limited to the model made popular by Cochrane. He encourages discussion around this issue.

Searches for Systematic Reviews: Morris Gordon delivers some thoughts for systematic reviews.

A discussion on BEME guide 46: ‘Workplace Learning through Collaboration in Primary Healthcare: A BEME Realist Review of What Works, for Whom, and in What Circumstances’. Morris Gordon is once again joined by Elaine Hill at the University of Central Lancashire to discuss this published BEME realist review. We are pleased to bring you a recording of the short communication presentation that was delivered by Peter Pype , lead author on the review, as well as retrospective thoughts on realist re...