The Role of Information Visualisation and Anecdotal Evidence in Medical Students' Clinical Reasoning Process: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical students are often taught clinical reasoning implicitly, rather than through a formal curriculum. Like qualified health professionals, they engage in a wide range of information seeking and other practices as part of the clinical reasoning process. This increasingly includes seeking out information online and being informed by anecdotal information from social media or peer groups. The aim of this research was to investigate how anecdotes and icon arrays influenced the clinical reasoning process of medical students deciding to prescribe a hypothetical new drug.

Methods

A cross-sectional survey design was used. The survey required participants to respond to six hypothetical clinical scenarios in which they were asked to prescribe a hypothetical drug "polypi

SUBMITTER: Janssen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11580097 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature