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Record W4408301548 · doi:10.1111/tct.70062

Why Respect for Learner Autonomy Is an Ethical Priority

2025· article· en· W4408301548 on OpenAlexaff
Adam Neufeld, Aliya Kassam

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Clinical Teacher · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicInnovations in Medical Education
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAutonomyIndependence (probability theory)Personal autonomyPsychologySelf-determination theoryMedical educationPedagogyEngineering ethicsMedicinePolitical scienceEngineering

Abstract

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Learner autonomy is essential in medical education, not just as an educational goal but as an ethical priority. Drawing on self-determination theory (SDT), this Viewpoint differentiates autonomy from independence and emphasizes the need for autonomy support throughout medical training. We explore the ethical imperative of supporting autonomy in medical learners, why current educational models are often inadequate and how educators can adopt practices that respect learner autonomy. The paper concludes with a call for structural changes in medical education, to better align with evidence-based approaches that foster motivation, professional development and ultimately well-being.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.069
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.100
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.069
Threshold uncertainty score0.366

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0690.100
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0070.060
Scholarly communication0.0120.016
Open science0.0020.009
Research integrity0.0120.022
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.141
GPT teacher head0.515
Teacher spread0.375 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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