How workplace learning is put into practice: contrasting the medical and nursing contexts from the perspective of teaching and learning regimes.

ABSTRACT: Health professions education places significant emphasis on learning in the clinical environment. While experiences of workplace learning have been extensively investigated, practices of workplace learning explored through field work have been less utilized. The theoretical framework of teaching and learning regimes acknowledges aspects of power and conflict in its consideration of what guides teachers and learners in their practice of workplace learning. This study aimed to explore practices of workplace learning in the two adjacent healthcare professions; medicine and nursing. We adopted an ethnographic qualitative design. Field observations and follow-up interviews were performed in three clinical departments and the data set comprised 12 full days of observations and 16 formal follow-u

SUBMITTER: Liljedahl M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10356663 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature