How Doctors Think and Learn

Derek Burke is currently the Suitable Person and Head of Clinical Governance at Gibraltar Health Authority which runs St Bernards Hospital and King George V Hospitals, in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. He was formerly Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Medical Director and Responsible Officer at Sheffield Children's Hospital, as well as part of the Executive Board of the Hospital. Prof. Burke was appointed an Honorary Chair at Sheffield Hallam University since 2013.

Part I: Review of the literature.- Professions.- Knowledge.- Learning.- Experiential Learning Theory.- Brain plasticity, learning and memory.- Constructivism and Objectivism.- Skill.- Competence.- Assessment and Appraisal.- Tacit Knowledge.- Theories of Action.- Reflection.- Part II: Synthesis.- Overview to synthesis.- Tacit Knowledge Revisited.- Skill, competence and assessment revisited.- Theories of Action and Transforming Thought into Action revisited.- Reflection revisited.- Part III: Conceptual Framework.- Conceptual Framework.- Part IV: Appendices.- Bloom's Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain.- Anderson and Krathwohl's Modification to Bloom's Taxonomy.- Krathwohl's Taxonomy of the Affective Domain.- Summary of the changes from the original framework.- The Diligent Librarian.