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Family attachments and medical sociology: a valuable partnership for student learning
Author(s) -
FOX N. J.,
JOESBURY H.,
HANNAY D. R.
Publication year - 1991
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.1365-2923.1991.tb00043.x
Subject(s) - general partnership , curriculum , association (psychology) , sociology , medical sociology , medical education , medical school , sociology of education , component (thermodynamics) , psychology , pedagogy , medicine , nursing , public health , political science , law , physics , psychotherapist , thermodynamics
Summary. This paper reports association within a curriculum of a theoretical programme in medical sociology for undergraduate medical students with a practical family attachment. These two components constitute the ‘sociology’ element of a course in behavioural science, and have equal weight for assessment purposes. Recognition of, on one hand, the mutuality of the two elements, and on the other, their similar but distinct theoretical underpinnings, suggests that such an association has the benefit of retaining the individual contributions of each component to student learning, while enabling theoretical and practical components to inform each other. Both are administered from the Department of General Practice of the University of Sheffield, UK. The consequences of such an educational provision are discussed.