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COMPARING MEDICAL AND GRADUATE SCHOOL TRAINING: A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE
Author(s) -
Denton Wayne H.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.1993.tb00965.x
Subject(s) - accreditation , perspective (graphical) , training (meteorology) , psychology , medical education , professional development , identity (music) , graduate medical education , medical school , pedagogy , medicine , computer science , physics , artificial intelligence , meteorology , acoustics
In this paper the author subjectively compares his experiences in medicla school, psychiatric residency training, and an AAMFT ‐accredited PhD program in marriage and family therapy. The goal is to stimulate thinking on the nature of training and professional identity. This is done by marking assumptions regarding training overt which usually go unrecognized and unchallenged, Differences and similarities between the two programs of training are high‐lighted and discussed. It is proposed that the primary objective of professional traininjg is to learn how to apply knowledge while the primary objective of graduate training is to learn how to question knowledge.