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Axioms in clinical practice and their potential usefulness in education
Author(s) -
DUDLEY H. A. F.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1982.tb00942.x
Subject(s) - axiom , statement (logic) , task (project management) , clinical practice , point (geometry) , epistemology , bridge (graph theory) , psychology , medical education , medicine , family medicine , mathematics , philosophy , management , surgery , geometry , economics
Summary Education about the practice of clinical medicine (the clinical task) is largely empirical and has remained separate from research studies and theoretical models. This is because of the lack of any statement of axioms by clinicians which could provide a bridge between practice and its investigations. An incomplete collection of axioms based upon observations of difficulties experienced by students in their approach to the clinical task is given as a starting point for analysis and debate.