Teaching medical students to apply deliberate reflection.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Deliberate reflection on initial diagnosis has been found to repair diagnostic errors. We investigated the effectiveness of teaching students to use deliberate reflection on future cases and whether their usage would depend on their perception of case difficulty.

Method

One-hundred-nineteen medical students solved cases either with deliberate-reflection or without instructions to reflect. One week later, all participants solved six cases, each with two equally likely diagnoses, but some symptoms in the case were associated with only one of the diagnoses (discriminating features). Participants provided one diagnosis and subsequently wrote down everything they remembered from it. After the first three cases, they were told that the next three would be dif

SUBMITTER: Kuhn J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10841076 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature