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Socratic Questioning to Engage Learners

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Medicine is a life-long learning and thinking profession. To develop future physicians into autonomous learners and thinkers, medical educators must apply interactive and thought-provoking pedagogies to medical training. Socratic questioning is a teaching methodology that develops deep knowledge and critical thinking skills vital to the art of medicine.

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  1. Academy of Medical Educators, Science Education and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, Hempstead, NY, USA

    David E. Elkowitz

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  1. Science Education, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, NY, USA

    Alice Fornari

  2. Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Ann Poznanski

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Elkowitz, D.E. (2021). Socratic Questioning to Engage Learners. In: Fornari, A., Poznanski, A. (eds) How-to Guide for Active Learning. IAMSE Manuals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62916-8_9

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