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How to throw the baby out with the bath water
Author(s) -
Gorman D.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
internal medicine journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 1444-0903
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2008.01895.x
Subject(s) - hidden curriculum , curriculum , apprenticeship , context (archaeology) , medicine , curriculum theory , medical education , curriculum development , pedagogy , sociology , paleontology , linguistics , philosophy , biology
There are differing views on what is a hidden curriculum in medical education; without being facetious, this might not be all that surprising given that what we are discussing is hidden (or taken for granted). To some it is an ‘unofficial’ curriculum that exists in conflict with the received curriculum for a medical school or college. My viewpoint, by contrast, is well described by the sociologists, Lempp and Seale: