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Published on: January 17, 2013
Knowing and acting in the clinical workplace: trainees' perspectives on modelling and feedback
J H Stegeman1, E J Schoten, O T Terpstra
1Department of Medical Ethics and Philosophy, Erasmus Medical Center, Erasmus University Rotterdam, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, terpsteg@xs4all.nl.
Abstract:
In this article we discuss clinical workplace learning using a dual approach: a theoretical one and an empirical one. Drawing on the philosophical work of Aristotle, Polanyi and Schön we posit that the 'knowing and acting' underpinning day-to-day medical practice is personal and embraces by nature a tacit dimension. Consequently, imparting and acquiring this knowledge type necessitates personal interaction between trainer and trainee. The tacit dimension particularly influences modelling and feedback. In our empirical exploration we explore these educational routes in two disparate disciplines: surgery and paediatrics. We use a longitudinal design with in-depth interviewing. Our conclusion on modelling is: modelling is a dynamic and fragmented process reflecting discipline bound characteristics and working styles. On feedback it is: 'feedback' serves as vehicle for three distinctive forms of commenting on performance, each holding a specific power of expression for learning. We propose to view clinical workplace learning as: an interactive master-apprenticeship model encompassing modelling and feedback as natural educational routes. We conceptualise modelling and feedback as 'function' of interaction (developing grounded theory). Modelling function and feedback function may serve to study these routes as didactical components of ongoing interaction between trainer and trainee rather than an educator-driven series of unrelated events.
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