J L Tomlin
Veterinary Students' Attitudes toward the Assessment of Clinical Reasoning Using Extended Matching Questions
Tomlin, J L; Pead, M J; May, S A
Authors
M J Pead
S A May
Abstract
For the purposes of assessment, clinical expertise has been broken down into three broad components: scientific and clinical knowledge, clinical reasoning, and practical or technical skills. This structure can be used to define the tools used for assessment of clinical students. Knowledge can be assessed through a variety of written formats, and skills through various practical assessments, including the objective structured clinical examination. The assessment of clinical reasoning is more of a challenge, and, partly in order to address this challenge, the Royal Veterinary College recently introduced veterinary clinical-scenario-based extended matching questions. A questionnaire was used to collect students' perceptions of the new format. Surprisingly, this questionnaire also delivered important insights into the students' understanding of the process of clinical reasoning itself that could be crucial in future curriculum design. Despite a theory course that introduced students to the nature of expertise and the importance of pattern recognition to experienced clinicians, some final-year students could not recognize this approach as relevant to them and objected to the way in which some of the questions were driving them to think. This may relate to the variety of methods of case management that students observe during their practical experience and the different attitudes of clinicians to the way students work up cases. Overall, the students perceived this question type as an appropriate way to test clinical reasoning and as relevant to the experience they had gained during their clinical rotations, both within the college and in veterinary practices outside it.
Citation
Tomlin, J. L., Pead, M. J., & May, S. A. Veterinary Students' Attitudes toward the Assessment of Clinical Reasoning Using Extended Matching Questions. Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, 35(4), 612-621. https://doi.org/10.3138/jvme.35.4.612
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Deposit Date | Nov 11, 2014 |
Journal | JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICAL EDUCATION |
Print ISSN | 0748-321X |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Volume | 35 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 612-621 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.3138/jvme.35.4.612 |
Public URL | https://rvc-repository.worktribe.com/output/1431277 |
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