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Becoming Doctors: The Adoption of a Cloak of Competence

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The article was published on 1987-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 153 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Competence (human resources).

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Professional role confidence and gendered persistence in engineering

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used original panel data to examine behavioral and intentional persistence among students who enter an engineering major in college and found that women's relative lack of this confidence contributes to their attrition.
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Competency is not enough: integrating identity formation into the medical education discourse.

TL;DR: The authors provide a conceptual analysis of the issues and language related to a broader focus on understanding the relationship between the development of competency and the formation of identities during medical training and consider the salient literature on identity that can inform this expanded perspective about medical education and training.
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Cognitive, social and environmental sources of bias in clinical performance ratings.

TL;DR: Clinical performance evaluation systems should assure broad, systematic sampling of clinical situations, and keep rating instruments short, to establish the meaning of ratings in the manner used to set normal limits for clinical diagnostic investigations.
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Culture of Disengagement in Engineering Education

TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of training ethical, socially conscious engineers has been discussed, but does US engineering education actually encourage neophytes to take seriously their professional responsibili...