The Script Concordance Tests (SCTs) are an examination modality introduced by decree in the French National Ranking Exam for medical students in 2024. Their objective is to evaluate clinical reasoning in situations of uncertainty. In practice, SCTs assess the impact of new information on the probability of a hypothesis formulated a priori based on ...
Published in Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice
Recently, a new digital clinical reasoning test (DCRT) was developed to evaluate students' clinical-reasoning skills. Although an assessment tool may be soundly constructed, it may still prove inadequate in practice by failing to function as intended. Therefore, more insight is needed into the effects of the DCRT in practice. Individual semi-struct...
Published in BMC medical education
History taking and clinical reasoning are important skills that require knowledge, cognition and meta-cognition. It is important that a trainee must experience multiple encounters with different patients to practice these skills. However, patient safety is also important, and trainees are not allowed to handle critically ill patients. To address th...
Contexte : Le cadre de santé formateur en institut de formation en soins infirmiers accompagne (Paul, 2012) les apprenants dans leur acquisition de savoirs en thérapeutiques. Cependant, l’utilisation des termes « calculs de doses » et de « pharmacologie » peuvent être des freins à l’apprentissage dès le début des enseignements (Viau, 2002), majorés...
Published in Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice
Diagnostic errors are a major, largely preventable, patient safety concern. Error interventions cannot feasibly be implemented for every patient that is seen. To identify cases at high risk of error, clinicians should have a good calibration between their perceived and actual accuracy. This experiment studied the impact of feedback on medical inter...
Published in Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice
This study investigates pharmacy students' reasoning while solving a case task concerning an acute patient counselling situation in a pharmacy. Participants' (N = 34) reasoning processes were investigated with written tasks utilizing eye-tracking in combination with verbal protocols. The case was presented in three pages, each page being followed b...
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Published in Research in social & administrative pharmacy : RSAP
Pharmacists' clinical decision-making is a core process in pharmaceutical care. However, the practical aspects and effective teaching methods of this process remain largely unexplored. To examine the cognitive processes involved in pharmacists' perceptions of how they make clinical decisions in pharmacy practice. Semi-structured, face-to-face inter...
UNLABELLED: The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the medical domain is increasing on an annual basis. AI allows instant access to the latest scientific data in urological surgery, facilitating a level of theoretical knowledge that previously required several years of practice and training. To evaluate the capability of AI to provide robust d...
Published in Nurse education today
In France, successive reforms in nursing education have resulted in a 90 % reduction in hours of theoretical instruction in clinical psychopathology since 1972. As a result, novice nurses in psychiatry feel that they have not received sufficient theoretical training at the beginning of their careers. This particularly affects their ability to searc...
