Legitimate participation of medical students in community attachments.

CONCLUSION: Legitimate peripheral participation, in the context of undergraduate primary health care attachments, appears to depend upon positive social activities between students and health professionals and patients. Using legitimate peripheral participation as a theory to underpin evaluations of general practice attachments it is possible to determine improvements in the learning and teaching experience of medical students.
PMID: 30663938 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Primary Care - January 21, 2019 Category: Primary Care Authors: Eggleton K, Fortier R, Fishman T, Hawken SJ, Goodyear-Smith F Tags: Educ Prim Care Source Type: research