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Novice students in clerkships
A novice student metaphorically can be characterized by a pinball being shot into a pinball machine. Students were launched into clerkships and they bounced back and forth in a clinical context without a clear trajectory, which is illustrated by the Pictor chart of Marlon (Figure 1). He portrayed how he perceived that knowledge usually ows from consultants, through residents to him. During this process, many people interacted with him and in uenced his SRL, visualized by the bidirec onal arrows. His Pictor chart illustrates how many novice students describe having close rela onships with residents and with peers. The in uence of others, such as pa ents, nurses, and consultants in a clinical context on novice students’ SRL was much smaller. We will therefore rst focus on how residents and peers in uenced novice students’ SRL and a erwards the in uence consultants, nurses, and pa ents could have.
Figure 1. Marlon’s Pictor chart represen ng how others in uence his SRL
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