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Ready, Set, Clerkship: The ‘Learning to Learn at the Workplace’ Training to Prepare Medical Students for Workplace Learning Cover

Ready, Set, Clerkship: The ‘Learning to Learn at the Workplace’ Training to Prepare Medical Students for Workplace Learning

Open Access
|Jun 2025

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Table 1

Outcomes of literature and stakeholder analysis.

CONCLUSIONS FROM LITERATURE ANALYSISDESCRIPTIONS OF EXAMPLES MENTIONED IN STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWSRESULTING TRAINING THEMES
Students starting their clerkships have insufficient insights into informal workplace learning and how to effectively apply SRL skills in a clerkship context [1, 2, 3, 4]E.g., students not recognizing observing as a learning opportunityInformal workplace learning;
E.g., students not knowing when it is approriate to ask questions or what to askAsking questions;
Students’ awareness of how the clerkship context influences their SRL is limited [5, 6]E.g., students being unable to set realistic goals, not yet knowing the main activities of their clinical workplace or with whom to discuss their learning goalsInformal workplace learning; Learning goals;
Students need to take more agency in SRL and adapt to little supervisor time [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]E.g., students being reluctant to ask for feedback on their develomental areas (prioritizing performing over learning) and having to adjust to (also) take the initiative in feedback processes by asking for feedback from their busy supervisorsInformal workplace learning; Feedback;
E.g., students (and supervisors) experiencing to have/make insufficient time to reflect on what is being learned during their busy dayReflecting;
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Figure 1

Overview of the ‘Learning to Learn at the Workplace’ training. The main training content is highlighted for each session, including key literature [5, 6, 15, 16, 17] that shaped the theory and practical tools. Practical tools used are indicated in capitals and italics. The cyclical process of self-regulated learning is visualized through arrows, applying Zimmerman’s phases of forethought, performance and self-reflection [9]. List of abbreviations; SRL: Self-Regulated Learning; EPA: Entrustable Professional Activities; SMART: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-based; POWER: Problem, Options, Weighing options, Expressing preferred option, Request; CLOSER; Current performance, Learning Objective, Self-Evaluation, Request.

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Figure 2

Evaluation outcomes of the ‘Learning to Learn at the Workplace’ pilot. Visualization of student evaluation form data, including students’ self-efficacy of the main trainings’ learning objectives, its usefulness, content specifics and timing in the curriculum. The number of responses per item was 21 unless stated otherwise.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/pme.1567 | Journal eISSN: 2212-277X
Language: English
Submitted on: Dec 4, 2024
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Accepted on: May 11, 2025
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Published on: Jun 10, 2025
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2025 Mila van Dorst, Marije Lesterhuis, Renske de Kleijn, Annet van Royen-Kerkhof, Marije Hennus, published by Ubiquity Press
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