OU School of Community Medicine Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Psychiatry, Internal Medicine/Pediatrics, Medical Informatics, and Rural Family Medicine. Clinical faculty are part of OU Physicians, an academic group practice that is part of the OU School of Community Medicine. OU Physicians enables its members to provide excellent patient service and care, enhance OU's community mission to teach tomorrow's physicians and develop innovative health care services. Resident Fellows, Faculty, and Staff at the OU School of Community Medicine participate in Leadership Courses to enhance expertise in principles of community health and clinical teaching. OU School of Community Medicine The OU
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