Advancing the science of health professions education through a shared understanding of terminology: a content analysis of terms for "faculty".

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Health professions educators risk misunderstandings where terms and concepts are not clearly defined, hampering the field's progress. This risk is especially pronounced with ambiguity in describing roles. This study explores the variety of terms used by researchers and educators to describe "faculty", with the aim to facilitate definitional clarity, and create a shared terminology and approach to describing this term.

Methods

The authors analyzed journal article abstracts to identify the specific words and phrases used to describe individuals or groups of people referred to as faculty. To identify abstracts, PubMed articles indexed with the Medical Subject Heading "faculty" published between 2007 and 2017 were retrieved. Authors iteratively extracted data and us

SUBMITTER: Teunissen PW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8733114 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature