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Library Resources for the Health Professions Education Research Group

Journals and journal databases

The Library provides access to the following key journals in medical education:
 

Academic Medicine
from Volume 75(1) 2000 to present

Advances in Health Sciences Education : Theory and Practice 
from Volume 2(1) 1997 to present

BMC Medical Education (open access)
from Volume 1 2001 to present

Education for Health
from Volume 13(1) 2000 to present (open access)
from Volume 11(1) 1998 to Volume 13(2) 2000

Focus on Health Professional Education 
from Volume 2 2000 to present

Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions
from Volume 17(1) 1997 to 1 year ago (12 month delay for full text due to publisher restrictions)

Medical Education 
from Volume 31 1997 to present

Medical Education Online (open access)
from Volume 1 1996 to present

Medical Teacher 
from Volume 12 1990 to 1 year ago (12 month delay for full text due to publisher restrictions)

International Journal of Medical Education (open access)
from Volume 1 2010 to present

Teaching and Learning in Medicine (1040-1334)
from Volume 9(4) 1997 to 1 year ago (12 month delay for full text due to publisher restrictions)

The Clinical Teacher
from Volume 1 2004 to present

The Open Medical Education Journal (open access)
from 2009 to present

 

To find out whether the Library subscribes to a particular journal which is not listed above, use the e-Journal Portal (N.B. make sure you search for the journal title, not the title of an article).

Please use this online article request form to request any articles from journals which are not available through the e-Journal Portal.  There is no charge for the Library's document delivery service, and most articles can be obtained in 3-5 working days.

Databases

If you wish to do a literature search for journal articles on a particular aspect of medical education, the following databases are recommended (if you require assistance searching these databases, please contact your Liaison Librarian):
PubMed or Medline (Ovid)
Informit (Health Collection) 
Proquest (Health and Medical Complete) 
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature)
Embase

Pre-formulated PubMed searches

Click on the links in the table below to display the results of these pre-formulated PubMed searches.  Your Liaision Librarian can assist you with constructing searches on more specific topics.

Journal articles which have both medical education and problem based learning as major subject headings
"Education, Medical"[Majr] AND "Problem-Based Learning"[Majr] AND Journal Article[ptyp]
Journal articles which have curriculum as a major subject heading and the sub-heading of trends
"Curriculum/trends"[Majr] AND Journal Article[ptyp]
Journal articles which have both computer simulation and undergraduate medical education as major subject headings
"Computer Simulation"[Majr] AND "Education, Medical, Undergraduate"[Majr] AND Journal Article[ptyp]
Journal articles which have both patient simulation and undergraduate medical education as major subject headings
"Patient Simulation"[Majr] AND "Education, Medical, Undergraduate"[Majr] AND Journal Article[ptyp]
Journal articles which have both evidence-based practice and medical students as major subject headings
"evidence-based practice"[MAJR] AND "students, medical"[MeSH Major Topic] AND Journal Article[ptyp]
Journal articles which have professional education as a major subject heading and the word professionalism in the title or abstract of the article
"Education, Professional"[Majr] AND professionalism[Title/Abstract] AND Journal Article[ptyp]

 

Databases useful for cited reference searching are:
Scopus
Web of Science
Google Scholar

 

The complete A-Z List of databases available from the library may be found under the link to Electronic Resources on the Library home page.

Books online

The book cover images on the right hand side of this page link to some of the e-books available from the Library.  Please contact your Liaison Librarian if you have any difficulties or questions regarding the use of these.

Books in the Library

If you wish to browse, you will find most of the medical education books on level 4 of the main library, with call numbers ranging from R735 – R834.  A selection of these is listed below.

Use the Library Catalogue to search for a specific title not listed below, and please advise your Liaison Librarian of any titles you would like to recommend for the Library .

Amin, Z., & Khoo, H. E. (2009). Basics in medical education (2nd ed.). Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J.: World Scientific.

Bandaranayake, R. C. (2011). The integrated medical curriculum. London: Radcliffe Pub.

Calman, K. C. (2007). Medical education : past, present, and future. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.

Carter, Y., & Jackson, N. (2009). Medical education and training : from theory to delivery. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Clouston, T. J. (2010). Problem-based learning in health and social care. Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Ames, Iowa: Wiley-Blackwell.

Cruess, R. L., Cruess, S. R., & Steinert, Y. (2009). Teaching medical professionalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Delany, C., & Molloy, E. (2009). Clinical education in the health professions. Sydney: Churchill Livingston Elsevier.

Dent, J. A., & Harden, R. M. (2009).A practical guide for medical teachers (3rd ed.). Edinburgh ; New York: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone.

Doel, M., & Shardlow, S. (2009). Educating professionals: practice learning in health and social care. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

Dornan, T. (2011). Medical education: theory and practice. Edinburgh: Elsevier.

Downing, S. M., & Yudkowsky, R. (2009). Assessment in health professions education. New York ; London: Routledge.

Ende, J., & American College of Physicians. (2010). Theory and practice of teaching medicine. Philadelphia: American College of Physicians.

Humphrey, H., & American College of Physicians. (2010). Mentoring in academic medicine. Philadelphia: American College of Physicians.

Jackson, N. (2007). Assessment in medical education and training: a practical guide. Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing.

Jeffries, W. B., & Huggett, K. N. (2010). An introduction to medical teaching. Dordrecht ; New York: Springer.

Kern, D. E., Thomas, P. A., & Hughes, M. T. (2009). Curriculum development for medical education: a six-step approach (2nd ed.). Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Skeff, K., Stratos, G. A., & American College of Physicians. (2010). Methods for teaching medicine. Philadelphia: American College of Physicians.

Swanwick, T., & Association for the Study of Medical Education. (2010). Understanding medical education: evidence, theory, and practice. Chichester, West Sussex: Blackwell Pub.

Educating Physicians-read this e-book