Medical education research remains the poor relation.

The requirement that clinical practice should be based on the best available evidence has been paralleled by calls for medical education to become more evidence based.1-3 This has resulted, among other initiatives, in the establishment of the Best Evidence for Medical Education (BEME) Collaboration4 and the Campbell Collaboration, an off-shoot of the Cochrane Collaboration. The BEME initiative includes dissemination of best evidence to support medical education and the encouragement of a culture capable of nurturing more rigorous and better funded research.