Increasing Reasoning Awareness: Video Analysis of Students' Two-Party Virtual Patient Interactions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Collaborative reasoning occurs in clinical practice but is rarely developed during education. The computerized virtual patient (VP) cases allow for a stepwise exploration of cases and thus stimulate active learning. Peer settings during VP sessions are believed to have benefits in terms of reasoning but have received scant attention in the literature.

Objective

The objective of this study was to thoroughly investigate interactions during medical students' clinical reasoning in two-party VP settings.

Methods

An in-depth exploration of students' interactions in dyad settings of VP sessions was performed. For this purpose, two prerecorded VP sessions lasting 1 hour each were observed, transcribed in full, and analyzed. The transcriptions were analyzed using th

SUBMITTER: Edelbring S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5849799 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature