Health Professions Education Library
Book portfolio · Health Professions Education
Thirty books that shape how the health professions are taught
The works that recur on the reading lists of master’s programmes, faculty development courses and professional bodies in health professions education, from the Flexner Report to the current editions of the AMEE and ASME handbooks. Each entry gives the full bibliographic record, the reason it belongs on the shelf and its table of contents.
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- 30
- strands
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- chapters indexed
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- span of publication
- 1910 to 2026
Landmark Reports and Reform Agendas
The documents that defined what health professions education is for, from the 1910 Flexner Report to the Carnegie studies of physician and nurse education a century later.
HPE A 01
Medical Education in the United States and Canada
A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (The Flexner Report)
Why it is hereThe founding document of modern medical education. Flexner visited every school in the United States and Canada and argued for university-based, laboratory-grounded and hospital-integrated training. Its two-plus-two model still shapes curricula, and most current reform agendas define themselves against it.
Within two to three decades a majority of the schools operating in 1910 had closed or merged.
Contents 17 entries
- Introduction (Henry S. Pritchett)
- Part I
- IHistorical and General
- IIThe Proper Basis of Medical Education
- IIIThe Actual Basis of Medical Education
- IVThe Course of Study: The Laboratory Branches (A) First and Second Years
- VThe Course of Study: The Laboratory Branches (B) First and Second Years (continued)
- VIThe Course of Study: The Hospital and the Medical School (A) Third and Fourth Years
- VIIThe Course of Study: The Hospital and the Medical School (B) Third and Fourth Years (continued)
- VIIIThe Financial Aspects of Medical Education
- IXReconstruction
- XMedical Sects
- XIThe State Boards
- XIIThe Postgraduate School
- XIIIThe Medical Education of Women
- XIVThe Medical Education of the Negro
- Part II
- The Medical Schools of each state, Alabama to Wisconsin, followed by Canada
- Appendix: Table showing number in Faculty, Enrolment, Fee Income, Budget of Schools by States
HPE A 02
Health Professions Education
A Bridge to Quality
Why it is hereThe Quality Chasm series volume that tied education reform to patient safety and quality. It defines five core competencies every health professional should have and recommends changes to oversight, training environments and research. It is the bridge between this portfolio and the quality and safety literature.
Five core competencies: patient-centred care, interdisciplinary teams, evidence-based practice, quality improvement and informatics.
Contents 11 entries
- Executive Summary
- 1Introduction
- 2Challenges Facing the Health System and Implications for Educational Reform
- 3The Core Competencies Needed for Health Care Professionals
- 4Current Educational Activities in the Core Competencies
- 5Health Professions Oversight Processes: What They Do and Do Not Do, and What They Could Do
- 6Recommendations for Reform
- Appendix A: Committee Biographies
- Appendix B: Health Professions Education Summit Agenda
- Appendix C: Summit Strategies and Actions
- Appendix D: Attendee List
HPE A 03
Educating Physicians
A Call for Reform of Medical School and Residency
Why it is hereThe Carnegie Foundation's centenary follow-up to Flexner, based on site visits to medical schools and residency programmes. It argues that professional formation is the central task of medical education and sets out four goals: standardise outcomes and individualise process, integrate knowledge and clinical experience, cultivate inquiry, and make professional identity formation explicit.
Part of the Carnegie 'Preparation for the Professions' series, alongside studies of law, engineering, clergy and nursing.
Contents 10 entries
- Foreword: On the Shoulders of Flexner
- Introduction
- Part One: Today's Practice, Yesterday's Legacy, Tomorrow's Challenges
- 1Educating Physicians: Context and Challenges
- 2Being a Doctor: Foundations of Professional Education
- Part Two: Learning the Physician's Work
- 3The Student's Experience: Undergraduate Medical Education
- 4The Resident's Experience: Graduate Medical Education
- Part Three: External Pressures and Internal Forces for Change
- 5Regulating and Financing Medical Education
- 6Leadership for Organizational Change
- Part Four: Meeting Tomorrow's Challenges: A Vision of the Possible
- 7Realizing the Vision: Transforming Medical Education
- 8Supporting Excellence Through Effective Policy
HPE A 04
Educating Nurses
A Call for Radical Transformation
Why it is hereThe nursing counterpart of Educating Physicians and the first national study of nursing education in almost forty years. It shifts the emphasis from decontextualised knowledge to clinical reasoning, situated coaching and formation, and illustrates each argument with paradigm cases of real teachers.
AJN Book of the Year 2010 and PROSE Award for scholarly contribution 2010.
Contents 15 entries
- Introduction
- 1A Profession Transformed
- 2Teaching and Learning in Clinical Situations
- 3Teaching and Learning in the Classroom and Skills Lab
- 4A New Approach to Nursing Education
- 5Paradigm Case: Diane Pestolesi, Practitioner and Teacher
- 6Strategies for Teaching for a Sense of Salience
- 7Paradigm Case: Lisa Day, Classroom and Clinical Instructor
- 8Developing a Clinical Imagination
- 9Connecting Classroom and Clinical Through Integrative Teaching and Learning
- 10Paradigm Case: Sarah Shannon, Nurse Ethicist
- 11Being a Nurse
- 12Formation from a Critical Stance
- 13Improving Nursing Education at the Program Level
- Appendix: Methods for the Carnegie National Nursing Education Study
Core Textbooks and Handbooks
The large reference works that most master's programmes in health professions education use as their spine text.
HPE B 05
Understanding Medical Education
Evidence, Theory, and Practice
Why it is hereThe ASME reference text and the most common single textbook on certificate, diploma and master's courses. Thirty-seven chapters by leading authors move from learning theory through teaching methods, assessment, research and faculty support. New in this edition: the science of learning, knowledge synthesis and learner well-being.
Called one of the two best 'big books' on medical education in the University of Saskatchewan faculty development reading list.
Contents 37 entries
- Part 1: Foundations
- 1Understanding Medical Education
- 2A Global View of Structures and Trends in Medical Education
- 3The Science of Learning
- 4Teaching and Learning in Medical Education: How Theory can Inform Practice
- 5Principles of Curriculum Design
- 6Instructional Design: Applying Theory to Teaching Practice
- 7Quality in Medical Education
- Part 2: Teaching and Learning
- 8Lectures and Large Groups
- 9Learning in Small Groups
- 10Technology-enhanced Learning
- 11Simulation in Medical Education
- 12Work-based Learning
- 13Supervision, Mentoring, and Coaching
- 14Interprofessional Education
- 15Patient Involvement in Medical Education
- 16Learning Medicine With, From, and Through the Humanities
- 17The Development of Professional Identity
- 18Portfolios in Personal and Professional Development
- 19Continuing Professional Development
- Part 3: Assessment and Selection
- 20How to Design a Useful Test: The Principles of Assessment
- 21Written Assessment
- 22Workplace Assessment
- 23Structured Assessments of Clinical Competence
- 24Standard Setting Methods in Medical Education: High-stakes Assessment
- 25Formative Assessment: Assessment for Learning
- 26Selection into Medical Education and Training
- Part 4: Research and Evaluation
- 27Philosophical Research Perspectives and Planning your Research
- 28Quantitative Research Methods in Medical Education
- 29Qualitative Research in Medical Education: Methodologies and Methods
- 30Programme Evaluation
- 31Knowledge Synthesis
- Part 5: Faculty and Learners
- 32Career Progression and Support
- 33Supporting Learner Well-being
- 34Managing Remediation
- 35Diversity in Medical Education
- 36Developing Medical Educators: A Journey, not a Destination
- 37Educational Leadership and Management
HPE B 06
A Practical Guide for Medical and Health Professions Teachers
Why it is hereThe Dundee and AMEE practical companion, now renamed for all the health professions. Sixty-eight short chapters cover curriculum, learning situations, educational strategies, curriculum themes, assessment, staff, students, patients and education management. This edition adds artificial intelligence, precision learning, planetary health, social accountability and the cost of education.
About 130 contributors from 27 countries; the 7th edition appeared in mid-2026.
Contents 68 entries
- Section 1: Curriculum Development: The 'Why' of Learning
- 1The Future of Health Professions Education
- 2What Is the Curriculum?
- 3Theories of Teaching and Learning
- 4The Continuum of Education for the Health Professions
- 5The Undergraduate Curriculum
- 6Postgraduate Education in the Health Professions: Pathways to Practice
- 7Continuing Professional Development
- 8The International and Global Dimensions of Education in the Health Professions
- Section 2: Learning Situations: The 'How' of Learning
- 9Learning in Large Groups
- 10Learning in Small Groups
- 11Learning in the Workplace
- 12Independent Learning and Distance Education
- 13Learning in Hospitals
- 14Learning Medicine in Rural and Urban Communities
- 15Learning in a Simulated Environment
- Section 3: Educational Strategies and Technologies
- 16Outcome-Based Education
- 17Integrated Learning
- 18Interprofessional Education and Learning
- 19Problem-Based Learning: A Flexible Approach
- 20Team-Based Learning
- 21Technology and Professional Education
- 22Artificial Intelligence and the Clinical Teacher
- 23Precision Learning
- Section 4: Curriculum Themes: The 'What' of Teaching and Learning
- 24Relevance of Foundational Sciences to the Curriculum
- 25Social and Behavioural Sciences in Medical School Curricula
- 26Clinical Communications Skills and Empathy
- 27Bioethics
- 28Professionalism and Supporting Professional Identity
- 29Utilizing Education Research to Deliver Evidence-Based Teaching
- 30Patient Safety and Quality of Care
- 31Health Humanities in Health Professions Education
- 32Integrative Medicine in the Training of Health Professionals
- 33Clinical Reasoning
- 34Well-being, Mindfulness and Yarigai
- 35Planetary Health
- 36Cultural Competence and Humility
- 37Future-Proofing the Student
- 38Public Health in Health Professions Education
- Section 5: Assessment: The 'Measure' of Learning
- 39Concepts in Assessment Including Standard Setting
- 40Written Assessments
- 41Performance and Workplace Assessment
- 42Portfolios, Projects and Theses
- 43Assessment as Learning
- 44The Assessment of Attitudes and Professionalism
- 45Programmatic Assessment
- Section 6: Staff: The 'Who' of Teaching and Learning
- 46The Roles of the Teacher in Health Professions Education
- 47Teacher Evaluation
- 48The Teacher as a Scholar
- 49Faculty Development
- 50Mentoring in Health Professions Education
- 51Faculty Well-being, Burnout and Stress
- Section 7: Students
- 52Selection of Students and Trainees
- 53The Student as Teacher
- 54Working with Students with Learning Difficulties
- 55Student Engagement in the Educational Process
- 56Career Choice
- Section 8: Patients
- 57The Patient as Educator
- 58The Patient as Assessor
- 59The Patient as Curriculum Developer
- Section 9: Education Management
- 60Curriculum Evaluation
- 61Medical Education Leadership
- 62The Health Professions Teacher and Social Accountability
- 63The Educational Learning Environment
- 64Health Professions Education Research
- 65Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Medical Education
- 66The Cost and Sustainability of Health Professions Education
- 67Health Professions Education in Disrupted and Conflict Settings
- 68Evidence-Informed Health Professions Education
HPE B 07
Medical Education
Theory and Practice
Why it is hereThe Maastricht and Manchester theory-led textbook, written for master's and doctoral students who want to go beyond operational know-how. It starts from philosophy, learning theory and the social context of medicine, then examines teaching settings, assessment, quality, selection and careers through that lens.
Named alongside Understanding Medical Education as one of the two best 'big books' in the field in the Saskatchewan reading list.
Contents 21 entries
- Medical Education: An Introduction to the Domain
- Section 1: Theoretical and Social Foundations
- Morality and Philosophy of Medicine and Education
- Perspectives on Learning
- Medical Education in its Societal Context
- Medical Education in an Interprofessional Context
- Contexts, Processes and Outcomes
- Patient Involvement in Health Professional Education
- Curriculum Development in Learning Medicine
- Creating a Learning Environment
- Identifying Learners' Needs and Self-Assessment
- Teaching and Learning in Small Groups
- Teaching and Learning in Large Groups: The 'Lecture' in the 21st Century
- Learning and Teaching Clinical Procedures
- Learning and Teaching in Workplaces
- Learning from Practice: Routines, Mentoring, Feedback and Portfolios
- Assessing Learners
- Quality Assurance of Teaching and Learning: Enhancing the Quality Culture
- Developing Learning Resources
- Selecting for Medicine
- Predicting and Guiding Career Success in Medicine
- Developing Teachers and Developing Learners
- Glossary
HPE B 08
Oxford Textbook of Medical Education
Why it is hereThe most comprehensive single-volume reference, with sixty-one evidence-based chapters across twelve parts. It is strongest on theory and history and is the book to consult when a topic needs depth rather than a quick primer, for example selection, relicensure, cost and value, or medical education in developing and emerging economies.
Edited by the then clinical director of BMJ Learning; a scholarly reference held by most medical school libraries.
Contents 61 entries
- Part 1: Introduction
- 1Introduction
- Part 2: Curriculum
- 2Curriculum design in context
- 3Problem-based learning
- 4Interprofessional education: learning together in health and social care
- 5Student choice in the undergraduate curriculum: student-selected components
- 6Integrated learning
- 7Instructional design for medical education
- 8Using concept maps in medical education
- 9Creating the learning environment
- Part 3: Identity
- 10Identities, self and medical education
- 11Personality and medical education
- 12Medical education and its context in society
- Part 4: Delivery
- 13Small group learning
- 14Large group teaching
- 15E-learning
- 16Simulation-based medical education
- 17Simulated patients in medical education
- 18Work-based learning
- 19Learning in ambulatory care
- 20The humanities in medical education
- 21Study skills
- Part 5: Supervision
- 22Educational supervision
- 23Mentoring
- 24Professionalism
- 25The resident as teacher
- 26Students learning to teach
- 27Patient involvement in medical education
- Part 6: Stages
- 28Undergraduate medical education
- 29Postgraduate medical education
- 30Continuing professional development
- 31Remediation
- 32Transitions in medical education
- Part 7: Selection
- 33Selection into medical education, training and practice
- 34Study dropout in medical education
- Part 8: Assessment
- 35Principles of assessment
- 36Setting standards
- 37Choosing instruments for assessment
- 38Test-enhanced learning
- 39Assessing learners' needs
- 40Self-regulated learning in medical education
- 41Formative assessment
- 42Technology enhanced assessment in medical education
- 43Assessing professionalism
- 44Assessment in the context of relicensure
- 45Objective structured clinical examinations
- 46Workplace-based assessment
- 47Written assessment
- 48Successful feedback: embedded in the culture
- Part 9: Quality
- 49Evaluation
- 50Continuous quality improvement
- 51Cost and value in medical education
- Part 10: Research and scholarship
- 52Theoretical perspectives in medical education research
- 53Quantitative research methods in medical education
- 54Qualitative research in medical education
- 55Publishing in medical education
- 56Scholarship in medical education
- Part 11: Global medical education
- 57Medical education in developing countries
- 58Medical education in the emerging market economies
- Part 12: The future
- 59The future of health professional education
- 60Faculty development for teaching improvement: from individual to organizational change
- 61Educational leadership
HPE B 09
Essential Skills for a Medical Teacher
An Introduction to Teaching and Learning in Medicine
Why it is hereThe shortest route into the field for a new clinical teacher. Harden, founder of outcome-based education and of the OSCE, and Laidlaw set out what a good teacher does in brief chapters built around the FAIR principles of feedback, activity, individualisation and relevance, then walk through outcomes, curriculum planning, teaching methods and assessment.
A standard text for postgraduate certificate courses in medical education.
Contents 7 entries partial
Publisher listings for this edition give only part of the contents; the entries shown are the ones that could be confirmed.
- Section 1: Challenges you face as a teacher
- 1What is expected of you as a teacher at a time of change
- The future of medical education
- Section 2: Specifying what students should learn (Outcome-based education)
- 3What is outcome or competency-based education
- Selected later chapters
- 17Information overload, the core curriculum and electives
- 18The importance of the education environment
- 19Mapping the curriculum
- Section 4: Helping the student to learn (The teacher's toolkit)
- Later sections cover teaching methods, assessment of the learner and the teacher's professional development
Learning Science and Educational Theory
Theory the field borrows from cognitive psychology, adult education and the sociology of practice, read in nearly every HPE theory module.
HPE C 10
Make It Stick
The Science of Successful Learning
Why it is hereThe most readable synthesis of cognitive learning research: retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving, desirable difficulties and calibration. Written by two Washington University memory scientists with a writer, it gives health professions teachers the evidence behind test-enhanced learning and spaced repetition in plain language.
Listed among general books on teaching and learning in faculty development reading lists for clinician educators.
Contents 11 entries
- Preface
- 1Learning Is Misunderstood
- 2To Learn, Retrieve
- 3Mix Up Your Practice
- 4Embrace Difficulties
- 5Avoid Illusions of Knowing
- 6Get Beyond Learning Styles
- 7Increase Your Abilities
- 8Make It Stick
- Notes
- Suggested Reading
HPE C 11
How Learning Works
Eight Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching
Why it is hereThe Carnegie Mellon teaching centre's distillation of learning research into principles a teacher can act on: prior knowledge, knowledge organisation, motivation, mastery, practice and feedback, course climate and self-direction. The second edition adds a principle on students' identities and development and applies an equity lens throughout.
One of the most widely assigned university teaching texts; one author now directs a medical education design lab at the University of Pittsburgh.
Contents 12 entries
- Foreword to the First Edition: Applying the Science of Learning to College Teaching (Richard E. Mayer)
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Introduction: Bridging Learning Research and Teaching Practice
- 1Why Do Students' Identities and Stages of Development Matter for Learning?
- 2How Does Students' Prior Knowledge Affect Their Learning?
- 3How Does the Way Students Organize Knowledge Affect Their Learning?
- 4What Factors Motivate Students to Learn?
- 5How Do Students Develop Mastery?
- 6What Kinds of Practice and Feedback Enhance Learning?
- 7Why Does Course Climate Matter for Student Learning?
- 8How Do Students Become Self-Directed Learners?
- Conclusion: Applying the Eight Principles to Ourselves
HPE C 12
The Adult Learner
The Definitive Classic in Adult Education and Human Resource Development
Why it is hereThe source text for andragogy, the theory most often cited when health professions curricula claim to be learner-centred. It explains the assumptions about adult learners, the andragogy-in-practice model and its critiques, and adds expanded chapters on diversity, inclusion and belonging and on online adult learning.
Knowles is among the authors recommended by educators in the Royal College ICE blog #mededbooks list.
Contents 22 entries
- Part 1: Adult Learning
- 1Introduction to Adult Learning
- 2Exploring the World of Learning Theory
- 3Andragogy: A Theory of Adult Learning
- 4The Andragogical Process Model for Learning
- 5Andragogy in Practice
- Part 2: The Backdrop of Learning and Teaching Theories
- 6Theories of Learning
- 7Theories of Teaching
- 8Adult Learning Within Human Resource Development
- Part 3: Advancements in Adult Learning
- 9New Perspectives on Andragogy
- 10Beyond Andragogy
- 11Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in Adult Education
- 12Neuroscience and Andragogy
- 13Andragogy and Adult Online Learning
- 14Effective Computer-Based Instruction for Adults
- Part 4: International and Future Perspectives on Andragogy
- 15European Perspectives on Adult Learning
- 16Andragogy: International History, Meaning, Context, and Function
- 17The Future of Andragogy
- Part 5: Tools and Resources for Implementing Andragogy
- 18Andragogical Learner Analysis Using the Andragogy in Practice Framework
- 19Andragogy in Practice Inventory
- 20Guidelines for Using Learning Contracts
- 21Core Competency Diagnostic and Planning Guide
- 22Personal Adult Learning Style Inventory
HPE C 13
The Reflective Practitioner
How Professionals Think in Action
Why it is hereThe origin of reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action, the ideas behind reflective portfolios, debriefing and reflective writing in every health profession. Schön contrasts 'technical rationality' with the way skilled professionals handle messy, uncertain practice, using cases from design, psychotherapy, science-based professions, planning and management.
Described in the Saskatchewan reading list as a book everyone involved in medical school curricula should read.
Contents 11 entries
- Preface
- Part I: Professional Knowledge and Reflection-in-Action
- 1The Crisis of Confidence in Professional Knowledge
- 2From Technical Rationality to Reflection-in-Action
- Part II: Professional Contexts for Reflection-in-Action
- 3Design as a Reflective Conversation with the Situation
- 4Psychotherapy: The Patient as a Universe of One
- 5The Structure of Reflection-in-Action
- 6Reflective Practice in the Science-Based Professions
- 7Town Planning: Limits to Reflection-in-Action
- 8The Art of Managing: Reflection-in-Action within an Organizational Learning System
- 9Patterns and Limits of Reflection-in-Action across the Professions
- 10Conclusion: Implications for the Professions and their Place in Society
HPE C 14
Situated Learning
Legitimate Peripheral Participation
Why it is hereA short, dense book that introduced communities of practice and legitimate peripheral participation. It is the theoretical root of workplace learning, apprenticeship and professional identity formation research in medicine and nursing, which describe trainees moving from the periphery to full participation.
Recommended in the ICE blog #mededbooks list; communities of practice underpin the professional identity formation literature.
Contents 6 entries
- Acknowledgements
- 1Legitimate Peripheral Participation
- 2Practice, Person, Social World
- 3Midwives, Tailors, Quartermasters, Butchers, Non-drinking Alcoholics
- 4Legitimate Peripheral Participation in Communities of Practice
- 5Conclusion
Curriculum Design and Competency-Based Education
How to plan, align and critique a curriculum, from the six-step model to constructive alignment and mastery learning.
HPE D 15
Curriculum Development for Medical Education
A Six-Step Approach
Why it is hereThe 'Kern model' from Johns Hopkins: problem identification, targeted needs assessment, goals and objectives, educational strategies, implementation, and evaluation and feedback. It is the format many journals expect for curriculum reports. The fourth edition adds a chapter on curricula that address community needs and health equity.
Described by the publisher as an international standard, and in the Saskatchewan list as the best book on curriculum in medical education.
Contents 14 entries
- Introduction
- 1Overview: A Six-Step Approach to Curriculum Development
- 2Step 1: Problem Identification and General Needs Assessment
- 3Step 2: Targeted Needs Assessment
- 4Step 3: Goals and Objectives
- 5Step 4: Educational Strategies
- 6Step 5: Implementation
- 7Step 6: Evaluation and Feedback
- 8Curriculum Maintenance and Enhancement
- 9Dissemination
- 10Curriculum Development for Larger Programs
- 11Curricula That Address Community Needs and Health Equity
- Appendix A: Example Curricula
- Appendix B: Curricular, Faculty Development, and Funding Resources
HPE D 16
The Question of Competence
Reconsidering Medical Education in the Twenty-First Century
Why it is hereThe critical counterweight to competency-based medical education. Seven chapters by Wilson Centre and Maastricht scholars examine competence as discourse, as a team property, as emotion, as expertise, as a measurement problem, as self-assessment and as mindful practice. Read it alongside Kern and the assessment books.
Recommended by three different educators in the ICE #mededbooks list; called essential reading on CBME in the Saskatchewan list.
Contents 9 entries
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1The Shifting Discourses of Competence
- 2Rethinking Competence in the Context of Teamwork
- 3Perturbations: The Central Role of Emotional Competence in Medical Training
- 4Competence as Expertise: Exploring Constructions of Knowledge in Expert Practice
- 5Assessing Competence: Extending the Approaches to Reliability
- 6Blinded by 'Insight': Self-Assessment and Its Role in Performance Improvement
- 7The Competent Mind: Beyond Cognition
HPE D 17
Mastery Learning in Health Professions Education
Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation series
Why it is hereThe Northwestern group's full account of simulation-based mastery learning, in which every learner reaches a fixed minimum passing standard and only the time varies. It covers curriculum design, standard setting, debriefing and faculty development, then documents translational outcomes such as fewer central line infections.
The core reading of Northwestern's Simulation Mastery Learning course.
Contents 21 entries
- Part I: Clinical Education in the Health Professions
- 1Clinical Education: Origins and Outcomes
- Part II: The Mastery Learning Model
- 2Mastery Learning: Origins, Features, and Evidence from the Health Professions
- 3Developing a Mastery Learning Curriculum
- 4Instructional Design and Delivery for Mastery Learning
- 5Assessment in Mastery Learning
- 6Standard Setting for Mastery Learning
- 7Implementing and Managing a Mastery Learning Program
- 8Feedback and Debriefing in Mastery Learning
- 9Faculty Development for Mastery Learning
- Part III: Mastery Learning in Action
- 10Mastery Learning of Clinical Communication Skills
- 11Mastery Learning of Team Skills
- 12Mastery Learning of Surgical Skills
- 13Mastery Learning of Bedside Procedural Skills
- 14Mastery Learning for Clinical Emergencies
- 15Readiness for Residency
- Part IV: Transfer of Training from Mastery Learning
- 16Translational Science and Healthcare Quality and Safety Improvement from Mastery Learning
- Part V: The Road Ahead
- 17Mastery Learning, Milestones, and Entrustable Professional Activities
- 18Mastery Learning, Continuing Professional Education (CPE), and Maintenance of Certification (MOC)
- 19Return on Investment from Simulation-Based Mastery Learning
- 20Educational Policy Consequences from Mastery Learning
- 21Mastery Learning: Opportunities and Challenges
HPE D 18
Teaching for Quality Learning at University
Why it is hereThe book that introduced constructive alignment: write intended learning outcomes first, then align teaching activities and assessment tasks to them. It is the higher-education framework behind outcome-based curricula and course specifications in health faculties, and a direct fit for AKTS and Bologna-style programme design.
Constructive alignment was first published in the 1999 edition of this book and is now used in universities worldwide.
Contents 14 entries
- Part I: Effective Teaching and Learning for Today's Universities
- 1The Changing Scene in University Teaching
- 2Teaching According to How Students Learn
- 3Setting the Stage for Effective Teaching
- 4Contexts for Effective Teaching and Learning
- 5Knowledge and Understanding
- 6Constructively Aligned Teaching and Assessment
- Part II: Designing Constructively Aligned Outcomes-Based Teaching and Learning
- 7Designing Intended Learning Outcomes
- 8Teaching/Learning Activities for Declarative Intended Learning Outcomes
- 9Teaching/Learning Activities for Functioning Intended Learning Outcomes
- 10Aligning Assessment Tasks with Intended Learning Outcomes: Principles
- 11Assessing and Grading for Declarative Intended Learning Outcomes
- 12Assessing and Grading for Functioning Intended Learning Outcomes
- Part III: Constructive Alignment in Action
- 13Implementing, Supporting and Enhancing Constructive Alignment
- 14Constructive Alignment as Implemented: Some Examples
Clinical and Workplace Teaching
Practical guides for teaching at the bedside, in the clinic and in the office, where most health professions learning actually happens.
HPE E 19
ABC of Learning and Teaching in Medicine
ABC Series
Why it is hereTwenty-two illustrated chapters of a few pages each, written for the busy clinician who teaches. It covers the full cycle from course design and feedback to workplace assessment, students in difficulty and evaluation, and is often the first book given to new clinical supervisors.
Part of the BMJ ABC series; added chapters on social media, quality assurance of assessment, mindfulness and supervision.
Contents 22 entries
- 1Becoming a Better Teacher
- 2Educational Theory: An Overview
- 3Inquiry-based Learning
- 4Course Design
- 5Creating Educational Materials
- 6Creating a Safe and Effective Learning Environment
- 7Feedback in Medical Education: Skills for Improving Learner Performance
- 8Small-Group Learning
- 9Lectures, Lecturing and Learning
- 10Simulation in Healthcare Education
- 11Workplace Learning: Promoting Strengths, Addressing Weaknesses
- 12Learner Supervision
- 13Formative Assessment
- 14Written Assessment
- 15Skill-based Assessment
- 16Work-based Assessment
- 17Quality Assurance of Assessments
- 18Students in Difficulty
- 19Teaching and Learning Professionalism
- 20Social Media and Learning
- 21The Mindful Clinician-Teacher
- 22Evaluation
HPE E 20
Learning and Teaching in Clinical Contexts
A Practical Guide
Why it is hereAn interprofessional guide from the University of Melbourne that links theory, method and context in the clinical workplace. It is strong on transitions, resilience, the hidden curriculum, coaching, entrustable professional activities and feedback, with case scenarios from medicine, nursing and allied health.
More than 40 international researchers and practitioners contributed.
Contents 26 entries
- Section 1: Preparing learners for workplace learning
- 1Becoming a clinical educator
- 2Understanding transitions in health professional learning
- 3Cultivating critical thinkers
- 4Cultivating resilient learners
- 5Ethics education in clinical learning contexts
- 6Educating for conflict resolution
- Section 2: Education approaches within clinical learning contexts
- 7The influence of workplace context on learning and teaching
- 8Professionalism, identities and embodiment: supporting the internalisation of professionalism through addressing the hidden curriculum
- 9Scaffolding for progressive independence in workplace contexts
- 10Coaching clinical learners
- 11Translating expert practice for clinical learning
- 12Peer learning in clinical placements
- 13Educating for professional practice through simulation
- 14Interprofessional learning opportunities for pre-registration students in clinical workplaces
- 15Pedagogically-rich activities in hospital work: handovers, ward rounds and team meetings
- 16Learning in community-based contexts
- 17Identifying and working with underperformance
- Section 3: Assessment for learning in the workplace
- 18Workplace-based assessment
- 19Ensuring assessment builds capacity for future clinical practice: sustainable assessment in action
- 20Assessment through entrustable professional activities
- 21Reworking feedback to build better work
- Section 4: Leadership and faculty development in health professions education
- 22Faculty development: becoming a 'clinician as educator'
- 23Leadership in health professions education: what does it mean?
- 24Disruptive innovation in health professions education: how might this model guide change?
- 25Translating educational research into educational practice
- 26Improving clinical education: attending to the processes of designing and becoming
HPE E 21
Teaching in Your Office
A Guide to Instructing Medical Students and Residents
Why it is hereThe practical handbook for community preceptors. It shows how to teach without losing clinic time, with the One-Minute Preceptor (microskills), SNAPPS, the Aunt Minnie model, wave scheduling, RIME and GRADE evaluation, and ready-made forms for orientation, feedback and mini-CEX.
Recommended for family medicine teaching in the Saskatchewan reading list; one volume of the ACP's seven-book Teaching Medicine series.
Contents 12 entries
- 1Making an Informed Decision About Precepting
- 2The Curriculum
- 3Getting Ready to Teach
- 4Teaching Skills and Organizational Techniques for Office-Based Teaching
- 5Case-Based Learning
- 6Ways to Be More Efficient When Teaching
- 7Teaching Procedures in the Office
- 8Learner Feedback and Evaluation
- 9Preceptor Evaluation and Teaching Improvement
- Appendix A: Tools for Preceptors
- Appendix B: Summaries and Checklists for Preceptors
- Appendix C: Resources for Preceptors
Assessment, Feedback and Evaluation
Psychometrics, workplace-based assessment, programmatic assessment and the research on feedback that makes assessment useful for learning.
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Assessment in Health Professions Education
Why it is hereThe University of Illinois at Chicago assessment text, covering validity, reliability, generalisability theory, test statistics and standard setting before moving to written, oral, performance, workplace and narrative assessment. Later chapters treat key features, situational judgement tests, programmatic assessment, mastery settings and item response theory.
Used as the main assessment reference in UNAM's Master in Health Sciences Education, according to its programme coordinator.
Contents 22 entries
- Foreword (Georges Bordage)
- Preface
- Part 1: Fundamentals of Assessment
- 1Introduction to Assessment in the Health Professions
- 2Validity and Quality
- 3Reliability
- 4Generalizability Theory
- 5Statistics of Testing
- 6Standard Setting
- Part 2: Assessment Methods
- 7Written Tests: Writing High-Quality Constructed-Response and Selected-Response Items
- 8Oral Examinations
- 9Performance Tests
- 10Workplace-Based Assessment
- 11Narrative Assessment
- 12Assessment Portfolios
- Part 3: Special Topics
- 13Key Features Approach
- 14Simulations in Assessment
- 15Situational Judgment Tests
- 16Programmatic Assessment: An Avenue to a Different Assessment Culture
- 17Assessment Affecting Learning
- 18Assessment in Mastery Learning Settings
- 19Item Response Theory
- 20Engaging With Your Statistician
HPE F 23
Practical Guide to the Assessment of Clinical Competence
Why it is hereThe ACGME milestones view of assessment in the workplace, written by its architect. It covers direct observation, standardised patients, clinical reasoning, procedural skills, multisource feedback, simulation, coaching, portfolios, clinical competency committee group process and support for struggling learners, with downloadable tools.
Selected for the 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Medical Education.
Contents 18 entries
- 1Assessment in the Era of Outcomes-Based Education
- 2Issues of Validity and Reliability for Assessments in Medical Education
- 3Programmatic Assessment Using Systems Thinking
- 4Evaluation Frameworks, Assessment Forms, and Rating Scales
- 5Direct Observation
- 6Standardized Patients
- 7Assessing Clinical Reasoning In Vitro (Nonworkplace Assessment)
- 8Assessing Clinical Reasoning in the Workplace
- 9Workplace-Based Assessment of Procedural Skills
- 10Evaluating Evidence-Based Practice
- 11Clinical Performance Measures and Practice Review
- 12Multisource Feedback
- 13Simulation Overview
- 14Feedback and Coaching
- 15Portfolios
- 16Group Process in Assessment
- 17A Programmatic Approach to Identifying and Supporting the Struggling Learner
- 18Program Evaluation
HPE F 24
Feedback in Higher and Professional Education
Understanding It and Doing It Well
Why it is hereThe book that moved feedback from 'information given to the learner' to a process the learner drives. It challenges common feedback recipes and covers emotion, culture, trust, written and digital feedback, simulation, multisource and peer feedback, and patient-delivered feedback.
Recommended by Eric Holmboe in the ICE #mededbooks list.
Contents 13 entries
- 1The Problem with Feedback
- 2Changing Conceptions of Feedback
- 3Resituating Feedback from the Reactive to the Proactive
- 4The Impact of Emotions in Feedback
- 5Socio-cultural Considerations in Feedback
- 6Trust and Sustainable Feedback for the Development of Student Learning Dispositions
- 7Written Feedback: What Is It Good For and How Can We Do It Well?
- 8Feedback in the Digital Environment
- 9Feedback on Skills in Simulation
- 10Implementing Multisource Feedback
- 11The Role of Peers in Feedback Processes
- 12Utilising the Voice of Others: The Example of Consumer-Delivered Feedback
- 13Decision-making for Feedback
Professional Identity, Simulation and Interprofessional Learning
Becoming a professional, learning safely through simulation, and learning with, from and about other professions.
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Teaching Medical Professionalism
Supporting the Development of a Professional Identity
Why it is hereThe McGill group's case for making professional identity formation, not a list of professional behaviours, the goal of medical education. Chapters cover the cognitive base, socialisation, role modelling, reflection, faculty development, assessment, remediation and regulators, followed by programme case studies.
Praised in the Saskatchewan list as a superb treatment of professionalism through identity formation.
Contents 20 entries
- Introduction
- Part I: What Is to Be Taught and Learned
- 1Professionalism and professional identity formation: the cognitive base
- 2Developing a professional identity: a learner's perspective
- Part II: Theory
- 3Theoretical insights into the nature and nurture of professional identities
- 4Socialization, professionalism, and professional identity formation
- 5Educational theory and strategies to support professionalism and professional identity formation
- 6Role modeling and mentoring in the formation of professional identity
- 7Experiential learning and reflection to support professionalism and professional identity formation
- Part III: Principles
- 8General principles for establishing programs to support professionalism and professional identity formation at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels
- 9Faculty development to support professionalism and professional identity formation
- 10Becoming interprofessional: professional identity formation in the health professions
- 11Assessment of professionalism and progress in the development of a professional identity
- 12Remediation of unprofessional behavior
- 13Professional identity formation, the practicing physician, and continuing professional development
- 14Professionalism, professional identity, and licensing and accrediting bodies
- Part IV: Case Studies in Promoting Professionalism and Professional Identity Formation across the Continuum
- 15The evolution of an undergraduate medical program on professionalism and identity formation
- 16Developing and implementing an undergraduate curriculum
- 17Supporting professionalism and professional identity formation at the postgraduate level
- 18Changing the educational environment to better support professionalism and professional identity formation
- Part V: The Future
- 19Professional identities of the future: invisible and unconscious or deliberate and reflexive?
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Healthcare Simulation Education
Evidence, Theory and Practice
Why it is hereA concise, cross-disciplinary reference for anyone running simulation. It covers learning theory, realism, simulated participants, research, faculty development and programme sustainability, then the practical elements: ethics, teamwork, scenario design, facilitation, adverse events and debriefing, with international innovation cases.
Edited by the leadership of the Australian Society for Simulation in Healthcare; contributors from all seven continents.
Contents 32 entries
- Section I: Introduction
- 1An introduction to healthcare simulation
- Section II: Theoretical perspectives and frameworks for healthcare simulation
- 2Theories informing healthcare simulation practice
- 3Historical practices in healthcare simulation: what we still have to learn
- 4Exploring realism in healthcare simulations
- 5Applying a framework to healthcare simulation: micro, meso and macro levels
- Section III: Contemporary issues in healthcare simulation
- 6Strategies for research in healthcare simulation
- 7Simulated participant methodologies: maintaining humanism in practice
- 8Narrative dramaturgy and sense making in healthcare simulation
- 9Haptics-driven healthcare training simulator systems
- 10Virtual environments and virtual patients in healthcare
- 11Consistency in simulation: a measurement perspective
- 12Taking simulation beyond education in healthcare
- 13The value of professional societies to the healthcare simulation community of practice
- 14Faculty development in healthcare simulation
- 15Programme development and sustainability in healthcare simulation
- Section IV: Elements of simulation practice
- 16Ethics of healthcare simulation
- 17Teamwork and healthcare simulation
- 18Designing simulation-based learning activities: a systematic approach
- 19Facilitating healthcare simulations
- 20Strategies for managing adverse events in healthcare simulations
- 21Debriefing: the state of the art and science in healthcare simulation
- Section V: Innovations in healthcare simulation practice
- 22Simulation of home births: developing safe practices
- 23Optimizing learning in simulation-based education using video-reflexivity
- 24Conversations about organ and tissue donation: the role of simulation
- 25Commencing a simulation-based curriculum in a medical school in China
- 26Transport of the critically ill patient: developing safe practices
- 27From routine to leadership: extending the role of simulation technicians in Southeast Asia
- 28Incorporating simulation in a medical city: a case study from King Fahad Medical City
- 29'Who' and 'how' in simulation centre development: buddies and ground rules
- 30Operationalizing a new emergency department: the role of simulation
- 31Simulation modelling and analysis to test health systems
- Section VI: Conclusions and future practice
- 32Twenty years on: forecasting healthcare simulation practices
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Effective Interprofessional Education
Development, Delivery and Evaluation
Why it is hereThe practical manual from the CAIPE founders and evaluators of interprofessional education. It explains the spectrum from uniprofessional to interprofessional learning, then guides the reader through groundwork, curriculum, assessment, staff development and the planning, conduct and use of evaluations.
Written by the team behind the main systematic reviews of interprofessional education.
Contents 15 entries
- Introduction
- Part I: Interwoven Threads
- 1The Spectrum Illuminated
- 2Effectiveness
- Part II: Developing Effective Interprofessional Education
- 3Towards Equilibrium
- 4The Groundwork
- 5The Curriculum
- 6Learning and Assessment
- 7Staff Development
- 8Testing your Development
- Part III: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Interprofessional Education
- 9Planning Sound Evaluations
- 10Developing Sound Evaluations
- 11Resources for Evaluations
- 12Conducting Evaluations
- 13Using and Sharing Learning from Evaluations
- Endnote: Drawing the Threads Together
Faculty Development, Scholarship and Nursing Education
Developing teachers, researching education and the standard faculty guide in nursing.
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Faculty Development in the Health Professions
A Focus on Research and Practice
Why it is hereThe reference book for anyone building a faculty development programme. It covers development for teaching, leadership, research and careers, the formats from workshops to fellowships and online learning, and newer topics such as teacher identity, simulation, social justice and cross-cultural work, with a research agenda.
Edited by the inaugural chair of the AMEE International Committee on Faculty Development; the first edition was the only book of its kind in the Saskatchewan list.
Contents 22 entries
- Part I: Introduction
- 1Faculty development: Core concepts and principles
- Part II: The Scope of Faculty Development
- 2Faculty development for teaching improvement
- 3Faculty development for leadership and management
- 4Faculty development for research capacity building
- 5Faculty development for academic and career development
- 6Faculty development for organizational change
- Part III: Approaches to Faculty Development
- 7Learning from experience: From workplace learning to communities of practice
- 8Peer coaching and mentorship
- 9Faculty development workshops, seminars and short courses
- 10Fellowships, certification, and degree programs in faculty development
- 11Faculty development online
- Part IV: Faculty Development and Practice
- 12Teacher identity: A critical component of faculty development
- 13Faculty development and reflective practice
- 14Faculty development for curriculum change: Towards competency-based approaches to teaching and assessment
- 15Faculty development for interprofessional education and practice
- 16Faculty development for simulation-based education
- 17Towards social justice: Implications for faculty development
- 18Cross-cultural faculty development
- 19Starting a faculty development program
- Part V: Research and Scholarship in Faculty Development
- 20Faculty development research: The 'state of the art'
- 21Promoting scholarship in faculty development: Relevant research paradigms and methodologies
- Part VI: Conclusion
- 22Faculty development: Future directions
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Researching Medical Education
Why it is hereThe standard research methods and theory book for HPE research, and the companion to Understanding Medical Education. Thirty chapters cover researcher development, qualitative, quantitative and critical methodologies, and the theories most used in the field, from activity theory and sociomateriality to cognitive load and self-regulated learning.
Presented by both ASME and AMEE; ten chapters are new to this edition.
Contents 30 entries
- Part I: Developing your practice as a health professions education researcher
- 1Exploring versus measuring: considering the fundamental differences between qualitative and quantitative research
- 2Theory in healthcare education research: the importance of worldview
- 3Constructivism: learning theories and approaches to research
- 4Widening access to medicine: using mid-range theory to extend knowledge and understanding
- 5Developing the research question: setting the course for your research travels
- 6Researching technology use in health professions education: questions, theories, approaches
- 7Power analyses: planning, conducting and evaluating education research
- 8Navigating health professions education research: exploring your researcher identity, topic and community
- 9How to tell compelling scientific stories: tips for artful use of the research manuscript and presentation genres
- Part II: Methodologies and methods for health professions education research
- 10What is known already: reviewing evidence in health professions education
- 11Qualitative research methodologies: embracing methodological borrowing, shifting and importing
- 12Attuning to the social world: ethnography in health professions education research
- 13Visual methods in health professions research: purpose, challenges and opportunities
- 14Critical discourse analysis: questioning what we believe to be 'true'
- 15Functional and corpus linguistics in health professions education research: the study of language in use
- 16Challenging epistemological hegemonies: researching inequity and discrimination in health professions education
- 17Educational neuroscience: current status and future opportunities
- Part III: Theory informing health professions education research
- 18Sticking with messy realities: complexity
- 19Activity theory
- 20Disentangling humans, technologies and things: sociomaterial research in health professions education
- 21Social cognitive theory: thinking and learning in social settings
- 22Learning and participatory practices at work: understanding and appraising learning through workplace experiences
- 23Health behaviour theories: a conceptual lens to explore behaviour change
- 24Self-regulated learning in HPE: theoretical perspectives and research methods
- 25Emotions and learning: cognitive theoretical and methodological approaches to studying the influence of emotions on learning
- 26Research on instructional design in the health professions: from taxonomies of learning to whole-task models
- 27Cognitive load theory: researching and planning teaching to maximise learning
- 28Deliberate practice and mastery learning: origins of expert medical performance
- 29Closing comments: building and sustaining capacity
- 30Conclusion
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Teaching in Nursing
A Guide for Faculty
Why it is hereThe standard guide for nurse educators and the main preparation text for the Certified Nurse Educator examination. It covers the faculty role, curriculum models, interprofessional and global learning, teaching strategies, clinical teaching, simulation and online learning, test construction, clinical evaluation, programme evaluation and accreditation.
AJN Book of the Year 2024 (1st place, Nursing Education) and Doody's Core Titles 2026.
Contents 27 entries
- Unit I: Faculty and Students
- 1Teaching in Nursing: The Faculty Role
- 2Strategies to Support Diverse Learning Needs of Students
- 3The Academic Performance of Students: Legal and Ethical Issues
- 4Teaching Students With Disabilities
- Unit II: Curriculum as a Process
- 5Forces and Issues Influencing Curriculum Development
- 6An Introduction to Curriculum Development
- 7Philosophical Foundations of the Curriculum
- 8Curriculum Models for Undergraduate Programs
- 9Curriculum Models for Graduate Programs
- 10Designing Courses and Learning Experiences
- 11Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice
- 12Fostering Social Responsibility Through Service-Learning
- 13Global Health and Curricular Experiences
- Unit III: Teaching and Learning
- 14Theoretical Approaches to Teaching and Learning in Nursing
- 15Managing Student Incivility and Misconduct in the Learning Environment
- 16Evidence-Based Teaching Strategies to Promote Learning
- 17Multicultural Education in Nursing
- 18Teaching in the Clinical Learning Environment
- Unit IV: Technology-Empowered Learning
- 19Teaching and Learning Using Simulations
- 20Using Technology to Facilitate Learning in the Classroom
- 21Teaching and Learning at a Distance
- Unit V: Evaluation
- 22Introduction to the Evaluation Process
- 23Strategies for Evaluating Learning Outcomes
- 24Using Classroom Tests to Evaluate Student Attainment of Learning Outcomes
- 25Clinical Performance Evaluation
- 26Systematic Program Evaluation
- 27The Accreditation Process
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