Threshold Genres: A 10-Year Exploration of a Medical Writer’s Development and Social Apprenticeship Through the Patient SOAP Note

IF 1.9 1区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION Written Communication Pub Date : 2022-05-02 DOI:10.1177/07410883221090436

Dana Lynn Driscoll, Omar Yacoub

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Abstract

While writing is a critical part of the medical profession, longitudinal studies exploring the social apprenticeship and genre knowledge development of medical practitioners are almost nonexistent. Through interviews and writing samples, this article traces a 10-year journey of one writer’s engagement with the Patient SOAP note, following his experiences from the first year of his undergraduate education to the end of medical school. Drawing upon theories of social apprenticeship and the RIME framework (reporter, interpreter, mediator, educator) from the field of medicine, we offer an in-depth case study of our focal participant’s growing medical expertise as he masters the Patient SOAP note. Through this in-depth analysis, we argue that the SOAP note functions as a “threshold genre” to assist entry into the medical profession. We conclude by offering additional evidence about the role that key threshold genres play in the development of professional expertise and offer implications for genre theory.

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阈值类型：通过患者SOAP笔记对医学作家发展和社会学徒制的10年探索

虽然写作是医学专业的重要组成部分，但探索医学从业者的社会学徒制和类型知识发展的纵向研究几乎不存在。通过采访和写作样本，本文追溯了一位作家从大学一年级到医学院结束的10年历程，讲述了他与患者SOAP笔记的接触。根据医学领域的社会学徒理论和RIME框架（记者、口译员、调解员、教育家），我们对我们的重点参与者在掌握患者SOAP笔记时不断增长的医学专业知识进行了深入的案例研究。通过这一深入分析，我们认为SOAP注释是一种“门槛类型”，有助于进入医疗行业。最后，我们提供了关于关键阈值流派在专业知识发展中所起作用的额外证据，并为流派理论提供了启示。

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Written Communication COMMUNICATION-

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15.80%

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期刊介绍： Written Communication is an international multidisciplinary journal that publishes theory and research in writing from fields including anthropology, English, education, history, journalism, linguistics, psychology, and rhetoric. Among topics of interest are the nature of writing ability; the assessment of writing; the impact of technology on writing (and the impact of writing on technology); the social and political consequences of writing and writing instruction; nonacademic writing; literacy (including workplace and emergent literacy and the effects of classroom processes on literacy development); the social construction of knowledge; the nature of writing in disciplinary and professional domains.