Physician-Scientists` Learning in Communities of Practice: Access, Culture, Gender, Power - Brossura

Wang, Min-fen

Brossura

ISBN 10: 3836468905 ISBN 13: 9783836468909

Casa editrice: VDM Verlag, 2009

Riassunto

The numbers of physician-scientists (PSs) who conduct patient-oriented (i.e., clinical) research (CR) are declining; thus, public health care and research is in serious jeopardy. In order to determine how to attract more physicians to CR careers and direct educational interventions effectively, this book using qualitative research method unraveled the complicated nature of PSs` learning in light of the structural dimensions of individual and workplace context, such as access, culture, gender and power and proposed a model to foster PSs` learning in communities of practice. The goal is to encourage various forms of peripheral participation in broadly defined CR to construct layers of going from core membership to extreme peripherality in a global PSs` community. These layers of engagement serve the dynamics of the CR enterprise development and provide multiple learning opportunities for PSs. Four main issues in the workplace learning relating to 1) learning how to learn in practice, 2) restructuring power and access to learning resources, 3) exercising combination of mentorship and leadership, and 4) understanding cultural and gender differences were discussed. This book should be especially useful to clinical research training program educators, planners and policy-makers, or anyone else who has interest in facilitating the integration of practice and research in various professional development contexts.

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L'autore

Min-fen Wang, Ph.D.: Continuing and Vocational Education at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Researcher at the Office of Continuing Professional Development in Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Chinese from Taiwan who received Master of Adult Education at National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: VDM Verlag
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3836468905
• ISBN 13: 9783836468909
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 464
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile