Exploring clinical reasoning in novices: a self-regulated learning microanalytic assessment approach.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The primary objectives of this study were to examine the regulatory processes of medical students as they completed a diagnostic reasoning task and to examine whether the strategic quality of these regulatory processes were related to short-term and longer-term medical education outcomes.

Methods

A self-regulated learning (SRL) microanalytic assessment was administered to 71 second-year medical students while they read a clinical case and worked to formulate the most probable diagnosis. Verbal responses to open-ended questions targeting forethought and performance phase processes of a cyclical model of SRL were recorded verbatim and subsequently coded using a framework from prior research. Descriptive statistics and hierarchical linear regression models were used

SUBMITTER: Artino AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4235424 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature