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Interdisciplinary expertise in medical practice: Challenges of using and producing knowledge in complex
Mieke Boon1, Sophie van Baalen1, Marleen Groenier2
1a Department of Philosophy , University of Twente , Enschede , The Netherlands.
Abstract:
Purpose: Clarification of interdisciplinary expertise as the ability to deal with the cognitive and epistemological challenges of multi- and interdisciplinary problem-solving-such as in developing and implementing medical technology for diagnoses and treatment of patients in collaborations between clinicians, technicians, and engineers-and of the higher-order cognitive skills needed as part of this expertise. Method: Clarify the epistemological difficulties of combining scientific knowledge, methodologies and technologies from different disciplines in problem-solving, by drawing on recent developments in the philosophy of science. Conclusion: We argue that interdisciplinary expertise involves the cognitive ability to connect, translate and establish links between disciplinary knowledge, as well as the metacognitive ability to understand and explain the role of the disciplinary perspective-consisting of, e.g. basic concepts, theories, models, methodologies, technologies, and specific ways of measuring, reasoning and modeling in a discipline-in how knowledge is used and produced.
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