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The rise of learning communities in medical education: A socio-structural analysis

The rise of learning communities in medical education: A socio-structural analysis HJCE New Ideas in Cancer Education The Rise of Learning Communities in Medical Education: A Socio-Structural Analysis The Rise of Learning Communities in Medical Education FREDERIC W. HAFFERTY, PHD, KATHLEEN V. WATSON, MD ong burdened with the descriptor “reform without One emerging and remedial effort has been to promote change”, medical education is entering an era of organizational structures that bolster “relating” and “rela- appreciable reconceptualization and restructuring. The tionships,” both among students and between student and numerous social and economic forces buffeting delivery of faculty. Within medicine, these structures have been vari- health care services (including those of commercialization, ously labeled “learning communities” “academic societies,” commodification, and corporatization) are forcing medical or “docent units.” educators to rethink the process, structure, and content of a pedagogical enterprise that has remained fundamentally DESCRIPTIONS AND DEFINITIONS unchanged since the Flexnerian revolution. One consequence of these forces has been the inadvertent Learning communities/learning societies (the two most tendency for medical schools to marginalize their traditional widely used terms) are vertically integrated groups of stu- 2-8 core mission—the education of future clinicians. In its dents and faculty usually extending across all 4 years of the place, research and clinical care enterprises have swept http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Cancer Education Springer Journals

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © American Association for Cancer Education 2007
ISSN
0885-8195
eISSN
1543-0154
DOI
10.1007/bf03174367
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Abstract

HJCE New Ideas in Cancer Education The Rise of Learning Communities in Medical Education: A Socio-Structural Analysis The Rise of Learning Communities in Medical Education FREDERIC W. HAFFERTY, PHD, KATHLEEN V. WATSON, MD ong burdened with the descriptor “reform without One emerging and remedial effort has been to promote change”, medical education is entering an era of organizational structures that bolster “relating” and “rela- appreciable reconceptualization and restructuring. The tionships,” both among students and between student and numerous social and economic forces buffeting delivery of faculty. Within medicine, these structures have been vari- health care services (including those of commercialization, ously labeled “learning communities” “academic societies,” commodification, and corporatization) are forcing medical or “docent units.” educators to rethink the process, structure, and content of a pedagogical enterprise that has remained fundamentally DESCRIPTIONS AND DEFINITIONS unchanged since the Flexnerian revolution. One consequence of these forces has been the inadvertent Learning communities/learning societies (the two most tendency for medical schools to marginalize their traditional widely used terms) are vertically integrated groups of stu- 2-8 core mission—the education of future clinicians. In its dents and faculty usually extending across all 4 years of the place, research and clinical care enterprises have swept

Journal

Journal of Cancer EducationSpringer Journals

Published: Mar 1, 2007

Keywords: Medical School; Learning Community; Hide Curriculum; Professional Learning Community; Health Profession Training

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