Ritual Evaluation of Competence: The Hidden Curriculum of Professionalization in an Innovative Medical School Program.

Haas, Jack; Shaffir, William

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Publication Date: 1982-May

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Ritual Evaluation of Competence: The Hidden Curriculum of Professionalization in an Innovative Medical School Program.

Haas, Jack; Shaffir, William

Work and Occupations: An International Sociological Journal, v9 n2 p131-54 May 1982

Discusses a study of students in an innovative medical education program that organizes its curriculum around small-group problem solving and omits grades and written examinations. Examines professional socialization, sources of student uncertainty or anxiety, the striving for professional competence, adaptations to interactional evaluation, and adaptations for the licensing examination. (CT)

Descriptors: Anxiety, Medical Education, Medical Schools, Nontraditional Education, Postsecondary Education, Problem Solving, Professional Recognition, Small Group Instruction, Socialization, Student Attitudes, Student Certification, Student Evaluation

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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