Informal learning in postgraduate medical education: from cognitivism to 'culturism'

• Published in: Medical education Vol. 39; no. 8; pp. 859 - 865
• Main Author: Swanwick, Tim
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Science Ltd 01.08.2005; Blackwell; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Cognition; Culture; Curriculum subjects: programmes and methods; curriculum/standards; education; Education, Medical, Graduate - methods; Education, Medical, Graduate - trends; Educational sciences; Interprofessional Relations; Learning; learning/ methods; medical; Medical and paramedical education; medical/psychology; Professional Autonomy; students; Teaching - methods; undergraduate/methods; Workplace; Medicine; Higher Education; medical; undergraduate/ methods; curriculum/ standards; students; education; medical/ psychology; learning/ methods; Psychology; Curriculum; Cognition; Graduate; Culture

Education is not simply a technical business of well managed information processing, nor even simply a matter of applying ‘learning theories’… It is a complex pursuit of fitting a culture to the needs of its members and their ways of knowing to the needs of the culture.1 Background  Work‐based learn...