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Lara Varpio

Putting the House of Knowledge Synthesis in Order: Differentiating Between Eight Different Kinds of Literature Reivews

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Abstract:
Researchers in medical education are increasingly relying on literature reviews / knowledge syntheses鈥攊n fact, a recent bibliometric analysis revealed that the number of reviews published in core medical education journals has increased by 2620% over the last two decades (Maggio et al, 2020). The most prevalent types are systematic and scoping reviews. Unfortunately, other kinds of reviews (e.g., narrative) have often been deemed unscientific and without value in medical education. Consequently, medical education has a skewed perspective on how literature can be synthesized and why (i.e., the purposes) syntheses can be conducted. This is deeply problematic because it blinds our community to synthesis approaches that can meaningfully add new insights and knowledge to medical education. A foundational reason for the current overreliance on systematic and scoping reviews is that these types of knowledge syntheses are familiar to medical educators: scholars know the kinds of questions these reviews answer, the methods for conducting them, and the markers of rigor to be expected. I contend that medical educators would use other types of literature reviews if they were more informed about them.

After this workshop, participants will be able to:

• distinguish between 8 different types of literature reviews: systematic, scoping, realist, narrative, critical, state-of-the-art, theory integrative, and meta-ethnographic reviews
• articulate, for each type of review, the research questions they answer, how to execute them, and their markers of rigor

Bio:
Dr. Lara Varpio is Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Philadelphia and the Co-Director of Research in Medical Education at The Children鈥檚 Hospital of Philadelphia. She started these positions in 2022, after serving for 9 years at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and 6 years at the University of Ottawa, Canada..

Dr. Varpio鈥檚 research investigates how individual clinicians can shape the medical profession, and how the profession shapes individual clinicians. In that research, she uses qualitative methodologies and methods, integrated with theories from the Social Sciences and Humanities. Her most recent work is related to: the perilous myths of professional identity formation, and how the concept of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning is failing medical education. She mentors many individual health professions educators from several specialties in a wide range of topics, and is internationally recognized for her expertise in qualitative research methods and methodologies, and with a wide array of different theories.

Dr. Varpio has secured over $5.7millionUSD in research grants, has authored +150 peer-reviewed conference presentations, disseminated +180 peer-reviewed publications, and given keynote talks and invited sessions at all the major medical education international conferences. Dr. Varpio was recently selected by the Fulbright Scholarship committee to mentor and host a Fulbright Scholar award winner from Australia. In 2019, she was selected as one of twelve inaugural Karolinska Fellows. She was co-host of the KeyLIME podcast, and moved with the show to the Karolinska Intitutet, and now co-hosts the PAPERs Podcast.

We gratefully acknowledge the Newell Trust in Health Sciences Education for providing support for this event.