Dr. Elizabeth Borycki is the Director of the Social Dimensions of Health and Health and Society programs and a Professor in the School of Health Information Science at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. In 2017, she was...
Many people learn better when they are in groups. The reason may be experience of peer-support or feeling social pressure to perform well. A proponent of social constructivism will even say that learning always requires a social context because knowledge generation...
Throughout medical school, students collect loosely connected islands of knowledge (even in integrated curricula) about health and disease. Later, in clinical practice, they encounter ‘whole’ human individuals, with conditions that have complex roots and effects within their lives. Thus, future...
