Reframing clinical workplace learning using the theory of distributed cognition

Academic Medicine

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1239-1245

  Pimmer, Christoph ^a   Pachler, Norbert ^b   Genewein, Urs ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84883613812     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31829eec0a     Document Type: Article

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