Relational reasoning in medical education: Patterns in discourse and diagnosis

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1021-1035

  Dumas, Denis ^a   Alexander, Patricia A ^a   Baker, Lisa M ^b   Jablansky, Sophie ^a   Dunbar, Kevin N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apprenticeship model; Discourse analysis; Medical education; Relational reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925591321     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: 19392176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0036777     Document Type: Article

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