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Vol. 76, No. 9, September 1996, p. 984
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Maureen Triggs Nemshick and Katherine F Shepard

This excerpt was created in the absence of an abstract.

We are grateful to Mr Ladyshewsky for providing an informative commentary, and we value the additional perspective he has provided on this topic. We certainly agree that clinical education models have received much discussion, with little research regarding what actually happens from the perspectives of the clinical instructors (CIs) or students involved.

We disagree with Mr Ladyshewsky that the small number of participants was a "significant weakness" of the study. Qualitative case studies, by their nature, use in-depth triangulated data from one case or a small number of cases to provide a holistic description of a phenomenon.1 In this type of research, the intent is not to provide a broad generalization but to provide what has been named "reader generalizability" or "user generalizability."2 That is, it is up to the reader to determine the extent to which the case can be applied to her or his own situation....


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