There has been a significant uptick of interest in curricular development, with more than 2500 publications in the last decade devoted to this area of health care education research. Effective curricular development research embodies pillars of excellence similar to those of curricular development itself, that is, identifying a gap in curriculum to address a health care or learner need, developing a curriculum to address the gap, and evaluating the impact of the curricular intervention. Curricular development research not only is central to one’s ability to disseminate innovative programs but more importantly provides a scaffold by which to assess the quality of curricular content and outcomes of interest for learners (Box).