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are also men oned. We will discuss the roles of residents, peers, consultants, nurses, pa ents and others in the same order as for the novice students.
Figure 2. Laci’s Pictor chart represen ng how others in uence her SRL
The role of residents is di erent for experienced students than for novice students, because experienced students started to regard residents as near-peers. This resulted in residents a ec ng all aspects of SRL, but not being decisive in the SRL of experienced students. Addi onally residents may also support coping with emo onal experiences and may create a feeling of social support. Experienced students were also more likely to share their personal goals with residents. This was because they realized the residents might be able to provide e ec ve strategies to reach certain goals, as residents were likely to have recently been in a similar situa on. In the interviews, students emphasized that it was important that residents provided
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How clinical medical students perceive others to in uence their self-regulated learning
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