OU Medicine specialties and many of them offer child-specific services that are unavailable elsewhere in Oklahoma. Some have even pioneered surgical procedures or innovations in patient care that are world firsts. Thirteen OU Children’s Physicians hold Children’s Medical Research Institute (CMRI) Endowed Chairs. Through endowed programs, CMRI helps fund the research and education efforts of leading pediatric doctors at the OU Health Sciences Center. OU Children’s Physicians specialists care for everyday conditions and for ongoing or complex health conditions. These specialists include: The Stephenson Cancer Center, formerly known as the OU Cancer Institute, is located on the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences
Situated learning the proper context for learning to take place". Situated learning was first proposed by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger as a model of learning in a community of practice. At its simplest, situated learning is learning that takes place in the same context in which it is applied. Lave and Wenger (1991) argue that learning is a social process whereby knowledge is co-constructed; they suggest that such learning is situated in a specific context and embedded within a particular social and physical environment. Against the prevalent view of learning that involves the cognitive process in which individuals are respectively engaged