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Is medical education research ‘hard’ or ‘soft’ research?

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The author would like to credit Roland Hiss, M.D., for the original idea of rats as an analogy for learners in the context of diabetes patient education. He would also like to thank Christopher White, M.D., Stanley Hamstra, Ph.D., Glenn Regehr, Ph.D., and Casey White, Ph.D., for improvements to the story.

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Gruppen, L.D. Is medical education research ‘hard’ or ‘soft’ research?. Adv in Health Sci Educ 13, 1–2 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10459-007-9092-0

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