<p>Health Professions Education (HPE) is an interdisciplinary field where concepts are routinely exchanged, transformed, and applied across a variety of contexts. Concepts are core to HPE and practice; yet many are underdefined, their understandings can shift over time, and concurrent understandings can blur shared understandings of key concepts. Multiple and shifting understandings of key concepts create a need for concept clarification. Concept analysis methodologies are uniquely suited to address this need and can be a helpful approach for concept clarification in HPE research. This article summarizes the benefits of concept analysis in HPE and describes two different approaches and their potential to clarify key concepts for the purposes of research, teaching, and assessment. More specifically, this article defines concepts, describes when and why concept analysis may be useful, explores two key approaches to concept analysis including examples of their use specifically in HPE, discusses strengths and limitations, and offers suggestions for those looking to use concept analysis in HPE. Concept analysis approaches are powerful tools in our methodological toolbox, as these approaches are designed to provide concept clarification for later theory development, operationalization, implementation, or use in practice. With the prevalence of concepts at play in HPE – from competencies to communities of practice – concept clarification is a key foundation on which to continue to build theories and ground practices in HPE.</p>

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Concept analysis: a methodological means to clarify key concepts in health professions education

  • Ethan Bazos,
  • Claude Julie Bourque,
  • Melanie Marceau,
  • Meredith Young

摘要

Health Professions Education (HPE) is an interdisciplinary field where concepts are routinely exchanged, transformed, and applied across a variety of contexts. Concepts are core to HPE and practice; yet many are underdefined, their understandings can shift over time, and concurrent understandings can blur shared understandings of key concepts. Multiple and shifting understandings of key concepts create a need for concept clarification. Concept analysis methodologies are uniquely suited to address this need and can be a helpful approach for concept clarification in HPE research. This article summarizes the benefits of concept analysis in HPE and describes two different approaches and their potential to clarify key concepts for the purposes of research, teaching, and assessment. More specifically, this article defines concepts, describes when and why concept analysis may be useful, explores two key approaches to concept analysis including examples of their use specifically in HPE, discusses strengths and limitations, and offers suggestions for those looking to use concept analysis in HPE. Concept analysis approaches are powerful tools in our methodological toolbox, as these approaches are designed to provide concept clarification for later theory development, operationalization, implementation, or use in practice. With the prevalence of concepts at play in HPE – from competencies to communities of practice – concept clarification is a key foundation on which to continue to build theories and ground practices in HPE.