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After almost five decades of educational research focused at teaching and learning in medicine, a consensus is forming in the community of medical education researchers suggesting that this body of work may be sufficient in quantity and quality to facilitate evidence-based educational decision making. Since evidence-based medicine is currently both a professional and educational imperative at all levels of training, the adoption of its logic, procedures and rhetoric by the educational researchers is not unreasonable.
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Rothman, A. (2002). Introduction. In: Norman, G.R., et al. International Handbook of Research in Medical Education. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0462-6_18
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