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Contemplative Reflective Practice, Conocimiento, and Continuing Medical Education
Posted on Sunday, January 01, 2006

Barbara Shaw Anderson North Carolina State University


Keywords: Reflective practice, continuing medical education, meditation, ethics

Contemplative reflective practices, exemplified by Remen and Kabat-Zinn, nurture “subversive knowledges” that can help physicians and their educators address ethical issues in the health care system. Continuing medical education should encourage physicians to become what Varela terms “ethical experts.”

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