The course will provide an overview key methodological considerations for applying Foucauldian concepts in the interdisciplinary field of health professions education (HPE). Theoretical concepts will be explored through analysis of their application and methodological affordances for addressing core issues in health professional training. The course will place emphasis on how the concepts of archive, discourse, governmentality, biopower, heterotopia/utopia, and subjectivity have been applied in HPER and other related disciplines. Comparisons with other sociocultural theoretical concepts and discourse analytical methods will be used throughout the course to encourage methodological reasoning. In addition, approaches for combining Foucauldian inspired critical discourse analysis with ethnographic and lived experience methodologies will also be presented. By considering how Foucauldian constructs are operationalized in empirical and non-empirical academic activities in HPER, learners will develop foundational knowledge they will apply to their own scholarship.