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To guide medical educators in selecting appropriate qualitative research approaches by examining underlying paradigms and methodological frameworks.

December 1, 2015Journal of Graduate Medical EducationOpen Access

Choosing a Qualitative Research Approach

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ATArianne Teherani TSTerese Stenfors AWAnupma Wadhwa

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Methodological overview describes core qualitative research approaches in medical education, highlighting the alignment of paradigm, question, and methodology.

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To guide medical educators in selecting appropriate qualitative research approaches by examining underlying paradigms and methodological frameworks.
Narrative methodological review contrasting quantitative and qualitative paradigms (positivism, post-positivism, and constructivism).
Analysis of three common qualitative research frameworks: grounded theory, ethnography, and phenomenology.
Application of frameworks to an illustrative case study evaluating resident learning experiences in a longitudinal clinical rotation.
Qualitative research operates predominantly within post-positivist and constructivist paradigms where the researcher acts as the primary data collection instrument.
Grounded theory, ethnography, and phenomenology each provide distinct structural frames that dictate research questions, data gathering methods, and analytic techniques.
Rigorous qualitative inquiry requires methodological alignment among the researcher's philosophical belief system, the study question, and the chosen qualitative tradition.

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Teherani et al. (2015) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7d16ad3575152c8237cec3 https://doi.org/10.4300/jgme-d-15-00414.1

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December 1, 2015Journal of Graduate Medical EducationOpen Access

Choosing a Qualitative Research Approach

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Authors

ATArianne Teherani TSTerese Stenfors AWAnupma Wadhwa

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Overview

Methodological overview describes core qualitative research approaches in medical education, highlighting the alignment of paradigm, question, and methodology.

Key Points

To guide medical educators in selecting appropriate qualitative research approaches by examining underlying paradigms and methodological frameworks.
Narrative methodological review contrasting quantitative and qualitative paradigms (positivism, post-positivism, and constructivism).
Analysis of three common qualitative research frameworks: grounded theory, ethnography, and phenomenology.
Application of frameworks to an illustrative case study evaluating resident learning experiences in a longitudinal clinical rotation.
Qualitative research operates predominantly within post-positivist and constructivist paradigms where the researcher acts as the primary data collection instrument.
Grounded theory, ethnography, and phenomenology each provide distinct structural frames that dictate research questions, data gathering methods, and analytic techniques.
Rigorous qualitative inquiry requires methodological alignment among the researcher's philosophical belief system, the study question, and the chosen qualitative tradition.

Cite This Study

Teherani et al. (2015) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7d16ad3575152c8237cec3 https://doi.org/10.4300/jgme-d-15-00414.1

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