An Examination of Social Learning Processes Associated with First Year Residents’ Experiences with Surgical Training

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Abstract

To extend previous conceptual and empirical studies using the communities of practice framework within medical education, we conceptualize and provide empirical evidence for the social learning processes associated with first-year residents’ experiences within a surgical community of practice. Data collection consisted of individual, semi-structured interviews with nine surgical residents (F = 4) that occurred midway through their first year of training. Data analysis consisted of inductive and deductive coding of interview transcripts to discern learning as doing, experiencing, belonging, and becoming within the practice, meaning, community, and identity dimensions of a surgical community of practice. Finally, we position them within an ideographic model and discuss implications for professional development among senior surgical trainees and teaching faculty.

Authors

• Rebekah Pollock, Georgia State University

• Jonathan D. Pollock, Emory University

• J. Luke Galloway, Emory University

• Johanna M. Hinman, Emory University

• Margaret Kennedy, Emory University

• Jahnavi K. Srinivasan, Emory University