%0 Journal Article %T Actor-network theory and ethnography: Sociomaterial approaches to researching medical education %A Anna MacLeod %A Jonathan Tummons %A Olga Kits %A Paula Cameron %A Rola Ajjawi %J Archive of "Perspectives on Medical Education". %D 2019 %R 10.1007/s40037-019-0513-6 %X Medical education is a messy tangle of social and material elements. These material entities include tools, like curriculum guides, stethoscopes, cell phones, accreditation standards, and mannequins; natural elements, like weather systems, disease vectors, and human bodies; and, objects, like checklists, internet connections, classrooms, lights, chairs and an endless array of others %K Sociomaterialism %K Actor-network theory %K Ethnography %K Medical education %K Research methods %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6565649/