Beliefs, Attitudes, and Behaviors That Facilitate Learning in the Orthopedic Clinical Setting: A Case Study of an Exemplary Educator

Michael Jeanfavre

Stanford Health Care, Department of Outpatient Physical Therapy Orthopedic and Sports Rehabilitation, 440 Broadway, Suite 3B, Redwood City, CA 94063

Dr. Michael Jeanfavre, Stanford Health Care, Department of Outpatient Physical Therapy Orthopedic and Sports Rehabilitation, 440 Broadway, Suite 3B, Redwood City, CA 94063.

Keywords: Clinical Education; Case Study; Clinical Instructor; Science of Learning; Orthopedic; Physical Therapy

Abstract

In recent decades’ American higher education has undergone a paradigm shift. Moving from an “instructional” paradigm to the “learning”-based paradigm (emphasizes the active process of learning on behalf to the students, while envisioning the institution itself as a learner). Despite the higher education’s shift to emphasize and align with the science of learning, there is comparatively scarce application of these principles in clinical education. Clinical educators play a critical role in the effectiveness of clinical education and requires them to incorporating the research-based theory of how people learn and evidence-based principles for how to design effective instruction Given the minimal research into how this is executed in post-graduate clinical, educational programs, the purpose of the present study is to examine the integration of the science of instruction and learning in an orthopedic rehabilitation clinical setting.

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