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Published on: January 6, 2011
How Does the Adult Surgeon Learn?
1Department of Surgery, Division of CT Surgery, University of Washington, UWMC, 1959 Northeast Pacific Street, Box 356310, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Abstract:
Both the breadth of knowledge and range of technical skills that residents are now expected to master prior to graduation have grown exponentially. A unique challenge that sets surgical education apart from medical education is that surgery as a specialty requires not only the mastery of complex physiology, anatomy, and disease processes but also the ability to interpret and apply that knowledge in the operating room. To be effective educators, it is imperative to understand the theoretic foundation of how adults learn.
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