Didactic dissonance-embracing the tension between classroom and clinical education.

ABSTRACT: The United States is undergoing a transformation in the way pain is viewed and treated. This transformation affects pain education, as some degree of disconnect will be expected between what is taught in classroom settings and what learners observe in clinical settings. We term this disconnect "didactic dissonance" and propose a novel process to harness it as a learning tool to further pain education. Based on principles of transformative learning theory, we describe a structured, three-step process beginning with (1) priming learners to recognize didactic dissonance and identify specific examples from their education, followed by (2) encouraging learners to search the primary literature to resolve observed dissonance and reflect on the system factors that created and perpetuated the disco

SUBMITTER: Mardian AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10323936 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature