Storytelling in Focus Group Discussions: A Narrative Approach to Phenomena With Temporal Dimensions in Medical Education Research
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https://hdl.handle.net/10037/32307Dato
2023-11-09Type
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Peer reviewed
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People can express experiences, opinions, and perspectives in stories. In a story, the experiences can be relived and discovered
independently of time and place. In medical education, it is a fundamental premise that time progresses, and it is within this
temporal space that students learn, acquire competencies, and form identity. It is also within this space that much qualitative
research is conducted. However, qualitative examinations at one point in time will result in only a snapshot of a dynamic
phenomenon that evolves over time. Existing approaches to qualitative research are often inadequate to accommodate this
dynamic development without applying a time- and cost-consuming design such as longitudinal investigations. The purpose of
this paper is to present storytelling as a useful research approach to include temporal dimensions in cross-sectional qualitative
data collection. We describe the background for the approach, argue for its use, and provide a practical example of storytelling
with the use of a fictional character in online focus group discussions to explore a dynamic phenomenon in medical education
research. Overall, storytelling offers a narrative approach to qualitative research that allows the researcher to explore
phenomena across time and space. The approach has the advantage that it can be used in different formats both oral and written,
digital or physical.
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Gjessing, Kristensen, Risør. Storytelling in Focus Group Discussions: A Narrative Approach to Phenomena With Temporal Dimensions in Medical Education Research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods (IJQM). 2023;22Metadata
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