Perspectives/Editorials:

These scholarly statements identify significant issues in medical education and are particularly important for communicating perspectives of the priorities for research on teaching and learning in medicine.
 

Analyses/Reviews of Literature:

Scholarly analyses and reviews of the literature serve essential functions, such as unifying lines of investigation, shaping research needs, and elucidating paradigm differences.
 

Applied Research:

The major portion of TLM is devoted to research on the purposes and processes of teaching and learning in medicine—research critical to the day-to-day conduct of the medical education enterprise. The research selected is methodologically sound, practical, interpretable, and useful to the teaching of medicine.
 

Research Basic to Medical Education:

The development of any science depends on the interplay between applied research and research of a more basic nature; there is a fundamental complementary relation between the two. This category includes reports of such basic research. Manuscripts may include and evaluation of the effectiveness of curricular development.
 

Research Methodology:

Some research serves the community of researchers more directly than it does that of medical teachers. This section includes reports addressing the science of medical education research rather than the science of medical education.
 

Developments:

This section describes innovations and newly developed programs, the purpose being to permit researchers a ready communication forum for their curriculum developments in progress, but not yet fully researched.
 

Book Reviews:

Reviews of new books in medical education serve to draw the attention of the TLM readership to books of particular relevance. Reviews of conferences, workshops, or other events also appear here.