BMJ 1999;318:1265-1267 ( 8 May )

Education and debate

Guidelines for evaluating papers on educational interventions

Education Group for Guidelines on Evaluation. 

Correspondence to: K Abbasi kabbasi@bmj.com

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

Education is an important part of the work of most doctors, and the BMJ is interested to publish original studies that will be useful to doctors in their educational role. Unfortunately many of the accounts we receive of educational interventions comprise a thin description of the innovation and an evaluation that says little more than that the students liked the innovation. This is not good enough. The standard of papers evaluating educational interventions should be as high as that of any other original papers that we publish.

We recognise, however, that many of the methodologies that are best for evaluating educational innovations are different from the methods with which BMJ readers are familiarfor instance, methods for evaluating new drugs. We thus set up a group of advisers, consisting of people expert in medical education, to produce guidelines that we could use when reviewing original papers that describe educational innovations. . . . [Full text of this article]

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