ABSTRACT
The classroom settings of tutorials and, to a lesser extent, practical classes are also places where Knowledge is taught, though these occur much less commonly in terms of frequency and duration. It is clear that lecturers give frontstage performances in the explicitly theatrical setting of the lecture theatre. While all preclinical students attended lectures in one lecture theatre, clinical students attended lectures on two hospital sites, and the two theatres were linked by video cameras. While teaching Knowledge certainly takes place in lectures, it is to be doubted whether much learning of Knowledge goes on there, if only because exams often take place months after the lectures on the subject. In basic medical science textbooks, as in lectures, Knowledge is presented, for the most part, in a series of unattributed statements made in the present tense in one of the languages of the preclinical academic disciplines.
