The goal of medical training is to create practitioners who demonstrate mastery of the professionalism (skills, knowledge, attitudes, and behavior) required for the successful delivery of medical therapy [ 1].
Praise indeed, from the West's pre-eminent practitioner of Realpolitik, whose mastery of the art of ideology-free diplomacy enabled President Nixon's visit to China in 1972.Yet a closer look reveals Sun Tzu's flaws as a tool of soft power.
33 Brewer applies his model generally to meditation teaching and clinical interventions using neural feedback of PCC activation as biofeedback markers for novices and practitioners trying to check their mastery of meditation.
Though ACLS certification has become a standard process for ensuring minimum competency for practitioners responding to cardiac emergencies, it does not require a mastery of the knowledge and skill needed to handle the complexities of advanced clinical decision-making.
Indeed, even as formerly middle-skill occupations are being "deskilled," or stripped of their routine technical tasks (brokering stocks, for example), other formerly high-end occupations are becoming accessible to workers with less esoteric technical mastery (for example, the work of the nurse practitioner, who increasingly diagnoses illness and prescribes drugs in lieu of a physician).
The greatest practitioners of New Journalism – Didion, Malcolm, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe – offer not just journalistic scrupulosity and stylistic mastery, but also psychological and philosophical insight.
Lave and Wenger (1991) describe this as legitimate peripheral participation when the learning takes place in a community of practitioners assisting the learner to move from a novice understanding of knowledge, skills, and practices toward mastery as they participate "in a social practice of a community" (p. 29).
Yet her mastery of comics, her pyrotechnic drawings, and her nested narratives are already placing her among the greatest practitioners of the form.
To do so, the practitioners oriented patients towards a holistic view of health, built up their self-efficacy through a structured set of progressively challenging mastery experiences, and delivered acupuncture early on to achieve results that would enhance commitment to and confidence in self-care.
It is the demonstration that the practitioner has mastered his art.The journey to mastery has been a long one.
