Tim Dornan, Naomi Tan, Henny Boshuizen, Rachel Gick, Rachel Isba, Karen Mann, Albert Scherpbier, John Spencer, Elizabeth Timmins
Clerkship education has been called a 'black box' because so little is known about what, how, and under which conditions students learn. Our aim was to develop a blueprint for education in ambulatory and inpatient settings, and in single encounters, traditional rotations, or longitudinal experiences. We identified 548 causal links between conditions, processes, and outcomes of clerkship education in 168 empirical papers published over 7 years and synthesised a theory of how students learn. They do so when they are given affective, pedagogic, and organisational support...
December 2014: Advances in Health Sciences Education