JBJS | Is Socrates Dying?

The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, Volume 90, Issue 3

The Orthopaedic Forum | March 01, 2008

Is Socrates Dying?

Augusto Sarmiento, MD¹

¹ Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, University of Miami School of Medicine 13-27, P.O. Box 016960, Miami, FL 33101. E-mail address: asarm@bellsouth.net

The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. 2008; 90:675-676 doi:10.2106/JBJS.G.01508

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As an educator during my entire medical career, I have tried to use the Socratic method of teaching, in which questions, rather than pronouncements, fill the time. I have found this approach rewarding, as I suspected that controversy would have a more lasting effect.

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fracture ; internship and residency ; medical residencies ; dialectics ; Medial malleolus ; fracture healing ; peer group ; guided discovery

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