Tackling wicked problems: how theories of agency can provide new insights

Medical Education

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 353-365

  Varpio, Lara ^a   Aschenbrener, Carol ^b   Bates, Joanna ^c  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^b ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDLINE; NARRATIVE; OCCUPATION; PROFESSIONALISM; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLICATION; SCOPUS; STUDENT; WEB OF SCIENCE; MEDICAL PROFESSION; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY;

HEALTH OCCUPATIONS; HUMANS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL THEORY;

EID: 85012978101     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/medu.13160     Document Type: Article

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