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Over recent decades, the use of qualitative methodologies has increased in medical education research. These include ethnographic approaches, which have been used to explore complex cultural norms and phenomena by way of long‐term engagement in the field of research. Often, however, medical education consists of short‐term episodes that are not bound to single sites, but take place in a myriad of locations and contexts such as classrooms, examination stations, clinical settings and online. This calls for methodologies that allow us to grasp what is at stake in an increasingly multifaceted and diverse field.