Factors associated with medical student clinical reasoning and evidence based medicine practice.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To identify the factors associated with medical students' clinical reasoning (CR) use and evidence-based medicine (EBM) use in the clinical setting.

Methods

Our cross-sectional study surveyed 44 final-year medical students at an emerging academic medical center in Singapore. We queried the students' EBM and CR value and experiences in the classroom and clinical settings. We compared this to their perceptions of supervisors' value and experiences using t-tests. We developed measures of teaching culture and practice culture by combining relevant questions into summary scores. Multivariate linear regression models were applied to identify factors associated with the students' CR and EBM clinical use.

Results

Eighty-nine percent of students responded (n=39). St

SUBMITTER: Vidyarthi AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4646359 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature