Longitudinal exploration of students' identity formation during the transition from pre‐clinical to clinical training using research poetry.
Background: Transitions are critical periods that can lead to growth and, or, distress. Transitions are a sociocultural process, yet most approaches to transitions in practice and research do not explore the social or developmental aspects of entering a new training phase. Wenger reminds us that ide...
| Publicado en: | Medical Education Vol. 57; no. 7; pp. 637 - 648 |
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| Formato: | poetry research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jul2023
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