Guest editorial: HRD and health professions education (HPE): context, research, and practice

This special issue presents two distinct disciplines, HRD and health professions education (HPE), to display their collaborative work and reflections, tackling complex healthcare workforce development issues through HRD approaches. When we, as guest editors, called out for papers with the aim to explore how HRD research and practice can be applied to healthcare, many scholars and practitioners responded. We appreciate their enthusiastic responses and see those as validation of our ongoing goal to connect those two fields. In this special issue, we include eight select papers exploring diverse topics on healthcare workforce development and provide real world practices for reflective...