Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice
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Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract · Aug 2007
Comparative StudySmoothing out transitions: how pedagogy influences medical students' achievement of self-regulated learning goals.
Medical school is an academic and developmental path toward a professional life demanding self-regulation and self-education. Thus, many medical schools include in their goals for medical student education their graduates' ability to self-assess and self-regulate their education upon graduation and throughout their professional lives. This study explores links between medical students' use of self-regulated learning as it relates to motivation, autonomy, and control, and how these influenced their experiences in medical school. ⋯ In the first two years they relied on faculty to direct and control learning, and they channeled their motivation toward achieving the highest grade. In the clerkships, they found faculty expected them to be more independent and self-directed than they felt prepared to be, and they struggled to assume responsibility for their learning. Self-regulated learning can help smooth out the transitions through medical school by preparing first and second year students for expectations in the third and fourth years, which can then maximize learning in the clinical milieu, and prepare medical students for a lifetime of learning.
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Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract · Aug 2007
Editorial CommentAltruism, doctors, and the art of medicine.