It takes a village: an ethnographic study on how undergraduate medical students use each other to learn clinical reasoning in the workplace.

ABSTRACT: When students learn with-and from-other students, it is called peer-assisted learning (PAL). How undergraduate medical students use their peers for their clinical-reasoning learning process remains unclear, although literature suggests that it is a promising learning strategy at this stage. This research therefore explores the question: 'How is PAL manifested in the clinical learning environment of undergraduate medical students with regard to developing clinical-reasoning skills?'. A constructivist paradigm with a sociocultural theoretical framework was adopted for this research, using PAL and workplace learning as theoretical background. Focused ethnography and a combination of template and open coding was used to gather and analyze qualitative data. Twenty semi-structured interviews wer

SUBMITTER: Ruczynski LIA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12572093 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature