Using Virtual Patients to Explore the Clinical Reasoning Skills of Medical Students: Mixed Methods Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Improving clinical reasoning skills-the thought processes used by clinicians to formulate appropriate questions and diagnoses-is essential for reducing missed diagnostic opportunities. The electronic Clinical Reasoning Educational Simulation Tool (eCREST) was developed to improve the clinical reasoning of future physicians. A feasibility trial demonstrated acceptability and potential impacts; however, the processes by which students gathered data were unknown.

Objective

This study aims to identify the data gathering patterns of final year medical students while using eCREST and how eCREST influences the patterns.

Methods

A mixed methods design was used. A trial of eCREST across 3 UK medical schools (N=148) measured the potential effects of eCREST on data ga

SUBMITTER: Plackett R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8214179 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature