Differing viewpoints around healthcare professions' education research priorities: A Q-methodology approach.

Recently, due to scarce resources and the need to provide an evidence-base for healthcare professions' education (HPE), HPE research centres internationally have turned to identifying priorities for their research efforts. Engaging a range of stakeholders in research priority setting exercises has been posited as one way to address the issues around reducing researcher bias and increasing social accountability. However, assigning individuals to single a priori stakeholder groups is complex, with previous research overlooking cross-category membership and agreement between individuals across groups.

A scoping review examining funding trends in health care professions education research from Taiwan (2006-2017).

Background: Traditionally health care professions education research (HCPER) is poorly funded, despite it being key to success.

Purpose: This unique study maps HCPER evolution within a single country during a period when significant national governmental HCPER funding is introduced.

Methods: A scoping review method examined Taiwan's HCPER landscape across 12-years.

Understanding how to enhance efficacy and effectiveness of feedback via e-portfolio: a realist synthesis protocol.

Introduction: The validity of feedback as one of the defining components for electronic portfolios (e-portfolios) to be effective and efficacious has yet to be demonstrated. While the literature has shown individual beneficial features of e-portfolios and feedback per se, evidence of feedback as mediated through technology directly resulting in improved educational practice is scarce. The explanation of how feedback via e-portfolio improves educational practice is particularly vague.

Healthcare professionals', students', patients' and donors' perceptions of stem cell research and therapy: a systematic review protocol.

Introduction: Stem cell research (SCR) and the biomedical potential of developing therapies are crucial topics in biomedicine. Like other biotechnologies, stem cells are context specific entities understood through local conceptualisations of culture, politics, nationhood, as well as their perceived therapeutic efficacy. There is a need to recognise how these developments are understood within the healthcare community and by those who may use them.