How Doctors Learn: Education and Learning across the Medical-School-to-Practice Trajectory.

Slotnick, H. B.

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ERIC Number: EJ639444

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Publication Date: 2001

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How Doctors Learn: Education and Learning across the Medical-School-to-Practice Trajectory.

Slotnick, H. B.

Academic Medicine, v76 n10 p1013-26 Oct 2001

Asserts that medical education is an identity development process because it provides students with more and better ways to satisfy their needs; it allows medical students and residents to take on physicians' identities with which they further address their recurring psychosocial needs. Presents 12 conclusions concerning physicians' learning. (EV)

Descriptors: Higher Education, Individual Development, Learning, Medical Education, Medical Students, Physicians, Psychological Needs, Student Development

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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