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CHAPTER 11 A SIXFOLD PATH: FROM DATA TO KNOWLEDGE TO UNDERSTANDING The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner. — Elbert Hubbard (1856 – 1915), American editor, author, and publisher If you haven ’ t found something strange during the day, it hasn ’ t been much of a day. — John Archibald Wheeler (1911 – 2008), colleague of Albert Einstein and eminent American physicist who coined the term black hole . In the preceding chapters we have focused on how doctors process and present information and something of how they think about clini- cal problems. This brief chapter is about specifi c strategies for learn- ing en route to becoming a medical maestro, a master of multiple knowledge domains, in the postmodern age of data/(mis)information overload (see Introduction). Key Question: Since meticulously edited, scholarly textbooks are often outdated before they are printed, and online resources are incomplete and often “unvetted,” what strategies can you use to enhance your critical learning and get the best of all worlds: print, electronic, and others yet to be invented? Becoming a Consummate Clinician: What Every Student, House Offi cer, and Hospital Practitioner Needs to Know, First Edition. Ary L. Goldberger and Zachary D. Goldberger. © 2012 Wiley-Blackwell. Published 2012 by John Wiley Sons, Inc. 173 174 A SIXFOLD PATH: FROM DATA TO KNOWLEDGE TO UNDERSTANDING We learn in a variety of ways. There is a rich literature on different learning styles. Each of us is thought to have a favored approach: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and so on. However, notions of different learning styles and the related topic of multiple types of intelligences are not without their controversies. What