How to Do Primary Care Educational Research: A Practical Guide
In: WONCA Family Medicine Ser.
Cover -- Half Title -- 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 policy making -- 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.