Alan Bleakley

TL;DR: There is a mismatch between the broad range of learning theories offered in the wider education literature and a relatively narrow range of theories privileged in the medical education literature.

TL;DR: This work states that narrative inquiry is a form of qualitative research that takes story as either its raw data or its product, and that a tension exists in the field of narrative inquiry between cognitive‐ orientated analytical methods and affective‐orientated methods of synthesis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the experiences of junior doctors during their first year of clinical practice and found that the stress of transition from the role of student to that of practising doctor and how well their medical school education had prepared them for this.

TL;DR: Seventy six senior academics from 11 countries invite The BMJ ’s editors to reconsider their policy of rejecting qualitative research on the grounds of low priority.

TL;DR: In this article, a proposal is made for a complex, synthetic "holistic reflexivity" as an aesthetic and ethical apprehension grounded in an ontological framework of radical phenomenology, and four underpinning epistemologies for reflective practice: technical rational, humanistic emancipatory, postmodern deconstructive and radical phenomenological.