Expert Professional Practice Flashcards
1
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Define expert practice
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- it’s the combination of knowledge, clinical reasoning, movement, and virtues
2
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How do healthcare providers “cope” with every patient being unique & still obtain good outcomes overall
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- Adaptive expertise = innovation & problem solving for the routine problems that are non-routine
3
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Every patient is exactly like the case in the textbooks (True/False)
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- False
4
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There is always one best way to treat patients who have the same condition (True/False)
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- False
5
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Describe adaptive learners
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- expertise is above routine learning
- learning to innovate & problem solve when practicing in uncertainty
- develop “Meta-cognition” or thinking about thinking
- feedback is key
6
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What are the stages of development of expert practice
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- Novice
- Advanced beginner
- Competent
- Proficient
- Expert/Mastery
7
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Describe advanced beginner
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- troubleshoot your own problems
- still primarily using recipes but increased contextual
- recognizing “aspects” of a situation
8
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Describe competent stage
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- overwhelmed at first by all the aspects of each problem = develop rules about when to use what
- development of these rules are key
- healthcare education competent = safe
- this is the goal of entry level classroom teaching
9
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Describe proficient stage
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- learning becomes emotional
- positive & negative responses to decisions will reinforce the correct responses (can become frustrated when patients don’t fit the rules)
- begin to develop intuitive sense of the goal of a given situation
- emerging contextual awareness
10
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Describe expert/mastery stage
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- the expert operates entirely by intuition
- contextual & situational awareness
- does not need analytic principles
- bc they rely on intuition experts have a hard time explaining why they do things to non-experts
11
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Describe dual process theory, fast vs slow thinking
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- Fast/Type I/System 1: non-analytic pattern recognition that is quick, subconscious & effortless; Heuristics = rules of thumb or thinking shortcuts which can occur through any of our senses
- Slow/Type II/System 2: analytical, effortful, & conscious
12
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The journey through the stages of expert practice are linear by years of practice (True/False)
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- False
13
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Which stage of expert practice development os the GOAL of entry level DPT classroom education?
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- Competent
14
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Describe a fixed vs growth mindset
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- Fixed: I will never be good enough/Experts make it so easy b/c they were gifted from the beginning
- Growth: I can change if I practice & prepare enough/Learning is still possible
