Improving Learning: Underlying Factors And Suggestions To Improve Learning In Health Profession
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https://doi.org/10.51985/JBUMDC2019021Abstract
Learners in health professions education may struggle with
learning and educationist can help them to explore what can
be followed to optimize it.
A multitude of factors influence the storage and retrieval of
information stored in memory. These include, but are not
limited to the implications and understanding gained out of
that piece of information, how it is learned, the contextual
conditions during its learning and if relevant practices are
employed during its retrieval.1
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