Understanding and appraising medical students' learning through clinical experiences: Participatory practices at work

Understanding how the learning of occupations can best progress is now the central project for tertiary education, and particularly when its programs are occupational specific. In response to these challenges, workplace experiences are now being provided in a whole range of these programs. As a consequence, it becomes important to understand the particular contributions of experiences in both the educational and workplace settings contribute to this learning. This chapter focuses on understanding the contributions of these two settings in the development of occupational capacities. It does this by exploring the participatory practices that comprise a group of medical students’ learning through their clinical experiences...