Evaluating the clinical reasoning of student health professionals in placement and simulation settings: A systematic review
Evaluating the clinical reasoning of student health professionals in placement and simulation settings: A systematic review
(1) Background: Clinical reasoning is essential to the effective practice of autonomous health professionals and is, therefore, an essential capability to develop as students. This review aimed to systematically identify the tools available to health professional educators to evaluate students’ attainment of clinical reasoning capabilities in clinical placement and simulation settings. (2) Methods: A systemic review of seven databases was undertaken. Peer-reviewed, English-language publications reporting studies that developed or tested relevant tools were included. Searches included multiple terms related to clinical reasoning and health disciplines. Data regarding each tool’s conceptual basis and evaluated constructs were systematically extracted and analysed. (3) Results: Most of the 61 included papers evaluated students in medical and nursing disciplines, and over half reported on the Script Concordance Test or Lasater Clinical Judgement Rubric. A number of conceptual frameworks were referenced, though many papers did not reference any framework. (4) Conclusions: Overall, key outcomes highlighted an emphasis on diagnostic reasoning, as opposed to management reasoning. Tools were predominantly aligned with individual health disciplines and with limited cross-referencing within the field. Future research into clinical reasoning evaluation tools should build on and refer to existing approaches and consider contributions across professional disciplinary divides.
Allied health, Assessment and evaluation, Clinical reasoning, Medicine, Nursing, Students
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Brentnall, Jennie
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Thackray, Debbie
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Judd, Belinda
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14 January 2022
Brentnall, Jennie
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Thackray, Debbie
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Judd, Belinda
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Brentnall, Jennie, Thackray, Debbie and Judd, Belinda
(2022)
Evaluating the clinical reasoning of student health professionals in placement and simulation settings: A systematic review.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (2), , [936].
(doi:10.3390/ijerph19020936).
Abstract
(1) Background: Clinical reasoning is essential to the effective practice of autonomous health professionals and is, therefore, an essential capability to develop as students. This review aimed to systematically identify the tools available to health professional educators to evaluate students’ attainment of clinical reasoning capabilities in clinical placement and simulation settings. (2) Methods: A systemic review of seven databases was undertaken. Peer-reviewed, English-language publications reporting studies that developed or tested relevant tools were included. Searches included multiple terms related to clinical reasoning and health disciplines. Data regarding each tool’s conceptual basis and evaluated constructs were systematically extracted and analysed. (3) Results: Most of the 61 included papers evaluated students in medical and nursing disciplines, and over half reported on the Script Concordance Test or Lasater Clinical Judgement Rubric. A number of conceptual frameworks were referenced, though many papers did not reference any framework. (4) Conclusions: Overall, key outcomes highlighted an emphasis on diagnostic reasoning, as opposed to management reasoning. Tools were predominantly aligned with individual health disciplines and with limited cross-referencing within the field. Future research into clinical reasoning evaluation tools should build on and refer to existing approaches and consider contributions across professional disciplinary divides.
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Evaluating the clinical reasoning of student health
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Accepted/In Press date: 21 December 2021
Published date: 14 January 2022
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Funding: The first and third authors have been supported in part by the Special Studies Program of The University of Sydney. The second author has been supported in part by a Global Research Initiator Award from Southampton University.
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Allied health, Assessment and evaluation, Clinical reasoning, Medicine, Nursing, Students
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