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What Do We Mean By "Relevance"? A Clinical And Rhetorical Definition With Implications For Teaching And Learning The Case-Presentation Format, Lorelei Lingard, R. Haber

Lorelei Lingard

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'Talking The Talk': School And Workplace Genre Tension In Clerkship Case Presentations, Lorelei Lingard, C. Schryer, K. Garwood, M. Spafford

Lorelei Lingard

BACKGROUND: Socialisation into a community involves learning sanctioned ways of talking. This study investigates the case presentation genre as a site of socialisation into the clinical community of practice. METHODS: Sixteen oral case presentations and the teaching exchanges surrounding them (involving 11 students and 10 faculty members) were observed by paired researchers during inpatient paediatric medicine rounds. A total of 21 in-depth interviews were conducted with 11 students and 10 faculty. Both data sets were audio-recorded, transcribed and analysed for emergent themes and rhetorical strategies. RESULTS: Students emphasised case presentation as a school genre and described the ideal presentation as …

A Certain Art Of Uncertainty: Case Presentation And The Development Of Professional Identity, Lorelei Lingard, K. Garwood, C. Schryer, M. Spafford

Lorelei Lingard

Healthcare professionals use the genre of case presentation to communicate among themselves the salient patient information during treatment and management. In case presentation, many uncertainties surface, regarding, e.g., the reliability of patient reports, the sensitivity of laboratory tests, and the boundaries of scientific knowledge. The management and portrayal of uncertainty is a critical aspect of professional discourse. This paper documents the rhetorical features of certainty and uncertainty in novice case presentations, considering their pragmatic and problematic implications for students' professional socialization. This study was conducted during the third-year inpatient clerkship at a tertiary care, pediatric hospital in hospital in Canada. …

Before The White Coat: Perceptions Of Professional Lapses In The Pre-Clerkship, Shiphra Ginsburg, Natasha Kachan, Lorelei Lingard

Lorelei Lingard

BACKGROUND: It has been shown that the professional development of clinical clerks is influenced by their experiences of unprofessional behaviour, but the perceptions of pre-clerkship students have received relatively little attention. Our purpose was to develop a greater contextual understanding of the situations in which pre-clerkship students encounter professional challenges, and to investigate what pre-clerkship students consider to be professional lapses in these situations.

METHODS: We conducted 4 focus groups (n = 22 students); transcripts were analysed by 3 researchers using grounded theory.

RESULTS: Pre-clerkship students reported lapses in the areas of communicative violation, role resistance, objectification, accountability and harm, …

'Is That Normal?' Pre-Clerkship Students' Approaches To Professional Dilemmas, Shiphra Ginsburg, Lorelei Lingard

Lorelei Lingard

OBJECTIVES: Context has been recognised as a key variable in studies of medical student professionalism, yet the effect of students' stage of training has not been well explored, despite growing recognition that medical students begin to form their professional ethos from their earliest medical school experiences. The purpose of this study, which builds on previous research involving clinical clerks, was to explore the decision-making processes of pre-clerkship medical students in the face of standardised professional dilemmas.

METHODS: Structured interviews were conducted with 30 pre-clerkship (Years 1 and 2) medical students at one institution. During the interviews, students were asked to …