False certainty in the acquisition of anatomical and physiotherapeutic knowledge.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Efficient metacognitive monitoring, that is the monitoring of one's own thought processes and specifically one's state of knowledge, is essential for effective clinical reasoning. Knowing what one does and does not know is a competency that students of health professions need to develop. Students often tend to develop false certainty in their own knowledge in the longer course of their education, but the time frame that is required for this effect to occur has remained unclear. We investigated whether students developed false certainty already after one course unit.

Methods

This study analysed data from one sample of medical students and four samples of physiotherapy students in two formal educational settings (total N = 255) who took knowledge tests before and af

SUBMITTER: von Hoyer J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9641864 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature