The association between quality of connections and diagnostic accuracy in student-generated concept maps for clinical reasoning education with virtual patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Concept maps are a learning tool that fosters clinical reasoning skills in healthcare education. They can be developed by students in combination with virtual patients to create a visual representation of the clinical reasoning process while solving a case. However, in order to optimize feedback, there is a need to better understand the role of connections between concepts in student-generated maps. Therefore, in this study we investigated whether the quality of these connections is indicative of diagnostic accuracy.

Methods

We analyzed 40 concept maps created by fifth-year medical students in the context of four virtual patients with commonly encountered diagnoses. Half of the maps were created by students who made a correct diagnosis on the first attempt; the ot

SUBMITTER: Kononowicz AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10594037 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature