Medical educators' beliefs about teaching, learning, and knowledge: development of a new framework.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The educational beliefs of medical educators influence their teaching practices. Insight into these beliefs is important for medical schools to improve the quality of education they provide students and to guide faculty development. Several studies in the field of higher education have explored the educational beliefs of educators, resulting in classifications that provide a structural basis for diverse beliefs. However, few classification studies have been conducted in the field of medical education. We propose a framework that describes faculty beliefs about teaching, learning, and knowledge which is specifically adapted to the medical education context. The proposed framework describes a matrix in which educational beliefs are organised two dimensionally into belief o

SUBMITTER: Ottenhoff-de Jonge MW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7981947 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature