Yields and Rabbit Holes: Medical Students’ Typologies of Sufficient Knowledge
Abstract
Given the vastness of bioscientific knowledge and regular changes in evidence and protocol, how do individual clinicians make decisions about what to know and what to ignore? In this article I identify a process termed “sufficient knowledge:” the prioritizing of medical knowledge perceived as most important, while ignoring information that is not deemed essential or applicable. Drawing on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork at an allopathic...
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Title
Yields and Rabbit Holes: Medical Students’ Typologies of Sufficient Knowledge
Published Date
Jul 23, 2019
Journal
Volume
39
Issue
3
Pages
255 - 268
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