Advancing clinical reasoning in virtual patients - development and application of a conceptual framework.

ABSTRACT: Background: Clinical reasoning is a complex skill students have to acquire during their education. For educators it is difficult to explain their reasoning to students, because it is partly an automatic and unconscious process. Virtual Patients (VPs) are used to support the acquisition of clinical reasoning skills in healthcare education. However, until now it remains unclear which features or settings of VPs optimally foster clinical reasoning. Therefore, our aims were to identify key concepts of the clinical reasoning process in a qualitative approach and draw conclusions on how each concept can be enhanced to advance the learning of clinical reasoning with virtual patients. Methods: We chose a grounded theory approach to identify key categories and concepts of learning cli

SUBMITTER: Hege I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5827186 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature