Open Access<p>Developing Medical Students’ Broad Clinical Diagnostic Reasoning Through GP-Facilitated Teaching in Hospital Placements</p>
Author(s) -
Aarti Bansal,
Davinder Singh,
Joanne Thompson,
Alexander Kumra,
Ben Jackson
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
advances in medical education and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1179-7258
DOI - 10.2147/amep.s243538
Subject(s) - thematic analysis , medical education , intervention (counseling) , medicine , likert scale , perspective (graphical) , focus group , cohort , psychology , qualitative research , family medicine , nursing , pathology , computer science , social science , developmental psychology , marketing , artificial intelligence , sociology , business
Graduating medical students need broad clinical diagnostic reasoning skills that integrate learning across clinical specialties to deal with undifferentiated patient problems. The opportunity to acquire these skills may be limited during clinical placements on increasingly specialized hospital wards. We developed an intervention of regular general practitioner (GP) facilitated teaching in hospital placements to enable students to develop broad clinical diagnostic reasoning. The intervention was piloted, refined and delivered to a whole cohort of medical students at the start of their third year. This paper examines whether students perceived opportunities to improve their broad diagnostic clinical reasoning through our intervention.