Influence of risk literacy, decision-making styles and motivation on clinical reasoning in medical students: an ordinal logistic regression analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinical reasoning is critical to the medical profession and should be a central component of the medical curriculum. However, there are different explanations of how clinical reasoning works, and there is little research on how it develops during medical education. The aim of this study is to investigate factors, i.e. skills, processes and motivations, which influence clinical reasoning in medical students.

Methods

128 data sets were included in our study. We focused on the diagnostic aspect and therefore used students' Bayesian reasoning ability in three medical case scenarios (0-3 points) as the outcome parameter. The study measures students' risk literacy (Berlin Numeracy Test, 0-4 points) as a skill, their decision-making style as an intuitive and/or rational

SUBMITTER: Al-Sayyed H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12042451 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature