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. 2020 Oct 7;6(2):e21701. doi: 10.2196/21701

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©Nerissa Naidoo, Aya Akhras, Yajnavalka Banerjee. Originally published in JMIR Medical Education (http://mededu.jmir.org), 07.10.2020.

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Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice. The figure elaborates on three intimately related concepts: field, capital, and habitus. The text box in blue elaborates how Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice when applied to the current context demonstrates the benefit of the teaching framework being adopted by a medical school. The concept of the figure was derived from Brosnan [37].