Constructionism in academic medicine matters. It encourages educators and researchers to
question taken-for-granted assumptions, paying close attention to socially and historically …

Context Recent decades have seen the international implementation of programmes aimed
at assuring the continuing competence of doctors. Maintenance of Professional Competence …

Doctors' work and the changing, contested meanings of medical professionalism have long
been a focus for sociological research. Much recent attention has focused on those doctors …

Objectives Health care delivery and education face critical potential shortages in the
foreseeable future in terms of retaining doctors nearing the time of retirement‐doctors who …

Qualitative research publications have become more prominent in medical journals.
However, in medical discourse, those researchers who are adhere to postpositivist …

Revalidation and/or recertification are processes whereby doctors demonstrate on a regular
basis that they are up to date and fit to practice with the help of a portfolio of evidence or …