As a specialist physician and clinical educator, I work across university and hospital-based medical practice, providing acute inpatient and chronic outpatient care as a member of an interprofessional team. In my specialty general medicine and clinical pharmacology training, and subsequent career, I have chosen to focus on scholarly activities that are applicable to clinical practice, such as guideline writing and teaching. A greater prominence of the qualitative research paradigm in medical education curricula may assist in promoting the value and practice of reflexivity for others. [Extracted from the article]