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ReviewMedical education2025

Translating cross-language qualitative data in health professions education research: Is there an iceberg below the waterline?

Marwa Schumann, Ashley Dennis, Jean-Michel Leduc, Harm Peters

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Review in Medical education, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Marwa SchumannDieter Scheffner Center for Medical Education and Educational Research, Dean's Office for Study Affairs, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7498-7245
Ashley DennisOffice of Medical Education, Billings Clinic, Billings, Montana, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2744-423X
Jean-Michel LeducCentre de Recherche du Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et Services Sociaux du Nord-de-l'Île-de-Montréal, Montréal, Canada.
Harm PetersDieter Scheffner Center for Medical Education and Educational Research, Dean's Office for Study Affairs, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1441-7512

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Health professions education research is an increasingly global community with culturally and linguistically diverse research teams who are challenged in how to communicate across cultures, contexts and languages. In today's diverse research landscape, language transcends its role as a mere means of communication and becomes a bridge that facilitates connections within research teams, between the team and its participants and between participants from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds and the scientific community. English as the 'lingua franca' is often seen as the international language of science and 'a prerequisite for scientific exchange'. This creates a language bias within the body of health professions education literature and involves methodological challenges for conducting research in non-English speaking contexts.

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Health OccupationsLanguageTranslatingCultural DiversityHumansQualitative Research

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PMID39484704
PMCPMC12070362

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