Reflections on BEME
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Medical Teacher
- Vol. 22 (2) , 141-144
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01421590078553
Abstract
Best evidence medical education (BEME) is an attempt to examine systematically the quality of the evidence available to address educational issues, using six dimensions: quality, utility, extent, strength, target and setting. The present paper is a critical examination of some of the assumptions of this method. Five basic points are made: (1) educational research is not necessarily inferior to clinical research; (2) methodological rigour is not unidimensional; (3) educational interventions cannot be easily standardized; (4) attempts to examine the strength and extent of evidence presuppose a single world-view; (5) however, despite these concerns, generalization is possible for many questions.Keywords
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