Fostering Reflexivity in Medical Students: Is Patient Engagement a Promising Avenue? A Qualitative Case Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Reflexivity enables individuals to analyze a situation based on past experience to develop other ways of thinking and perspectives for action. Reflexivity is therefore crucial for the improvement of professional practice. In medical education, recent studies have identified patient engagement as a promising strategy for fostering reflexivity in students; however, few evaluative studies have explored such a link. This article describes the reflexive effects of an intervention that engages patients in small-group discussion workshops about ethical, moral, and social issues arising from practice (as part of an undergraduate medical course at Université Laval) and presents the main processes involved in producing these effects.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Masse J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11930470 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature