Clinical reasoning for acute dyspnoea: comparison between final-year medical students from discipline- and competency-based undergraduate programmes.

ABSTRACT: Clinical reasoning for acute dyspnoea: Comparison of final-year medical students from discipline- and competency-based undergraduate programmes.

Background

The global shift to competency-based medical education aims to improve the performance of its trainees, including in the key competency domain of clinical reasoning. However, research on whether such education actually improves clinical reasoning is sparse. The purpose of this study is to compare assessed clinical reasoning performance in digitally presented cases of acute dyspnoea between final-year medical students from a traditional, discipline-based and those from an integrated, competency-based undergraduate programme.

Methods

A total of 60 medical students in their final-year clerkships participated in the study; 30

SUBMITTER: Czeskleba A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7238574 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature