Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic Of Iran
مجله پزشکی جمهوری اسلامی ایران
Med J Islam Repub Iran
Medical Sciences
http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir
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journal2
1016-1430
2251-6840
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10.18869/mjiri
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8888
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jalali
1394
10
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gregorian
2016
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The effect of short-term workshop on improving clinical reasoning skill of medical students
Health System
Health System
Original Research
Original Research
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Background: </strong>Clinical reasoning process leads clinician to get purposeful steps from signs and symptoms toward diagnosis and treatment. This research intends to investigate the effect of teaching clinical reasoning on problem-solving skills of medical students.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong> Methods</strong>: This research is a semi-experimental study. Nineteen Medical student of the pediatric ward as case group participated in a two-day workshop for training clinical reasoning. Before the workshop, they filled out Diagnostic Thinking Inventory (DTI) questionnaires. Fifteen days after the workshop the DTI questionnaire completed and “key feature” (KF) test and “clinical reasoning problem” (CRP) test was held. 23 Medical student as the control group, without passing the clinical reasoning workshop DTI questionnaire completed, and KF test and CRP test was held.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong> Results</strong>: The average score of the DTI questionnaire in the control group was 162.04 and in the case group before the workshop was 153.26 and after the workshop was 181.68. Compare the average score of the DTI questionnaire before and after the workshop there is a significant difference. The difference between average KF test scores in the control and the case group was not significant but between average CRP test scores was significant.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong> Conclusion</strong>: Clinical reasoning workshop is effectiveness in promoting problem-solving skills of students.</p>
Clinical reasoning, Student, Problem solving, Pediatric medicine.
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http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-1028&slc_lang=en&sid=1
Parsa
Yousefichaijan
parsayousefichaijan@yahoo.com
200319475328460023704
200319475328460023704
No
Amirkabir Hospital, Department of Pediatric Nephrology, School of Medicine, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran.
Farshad
Jafari
farshadjafari@yahoo.com
200319475328460023705
200319475328460023705
No
Amirkabir Hospital, Department of Pediatric, School of Medicine, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran.
Manijeh
Kahbazi
m_khabazi77@yahoo.com
200319475328460023706
200319475328460023706
No
Amirkabir Hospital, Department of Pediatric, School of Medicine, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran.
Mohammad
Rafiei
rafeie@yahoo.com
200319475328460023707
200319475328460023707
No
School of Medicine, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran.
Abdol Ghader
Pakniyat
abdolghader.pakniyat@gmail.com
200319475328460023708
200319475328460023708
Yes
Student Research Committee, Emergency Medicine Department, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran.