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Depth of understanding and excellence of practice: the question of wholeness and problem‐based learning
Author(s) -
Margetson D. B.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of evaluation in clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.737
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1365-2753
pISSN - 1356-1294
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2753.2000.00264.x
Subject(s) - excellence , medical practice , realization (probability) , epistemology , problem based learning , psychology , medicine , pedagogy , medical education , philosophy , mathematics , statistics
Abstract The paper evaluates the importance of conceptions underlying practices in medicine and in medical education. It uses a study of anaesthetists’ approaches to practice, and of lectures in problem‐based learning, to illustrate the influence of a conception of ‘applying knowledge in, or to, practice’ and of its apparently serious limitations reflected in practice. A brief background to the pervasiveness of the conception is given, together with discussion of an alternative, and arguably better, conception and its realization in rigorous problem‐based learning in contrast to transitional, semi‐problem‐based learning.