Cognitive elements in clinical decision-making: Toward a cognitive model for medical education and understanding clinical reasoning

Advances in Health Sciences Education

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 229-250

  Dunphy, Bruce C ^a,b,e   Cantwell, Robert ^a   Bourke, Sid ^a   Fleming, Mark ^c   Smith, Bruce ^b   Joseph, K S ^d   Dunphy, Stacey L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d IWK HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^e MONASH IVF   (Australia)

Author keywords

Affect; Clinical decision making; Clinical outcome; Medical education; Metacognition; Need for cognition; Reflective coping; Trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; OBSTETRICS;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; OBSTETRICS;

EID: 77954070811     PISSN: 13824996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10459-009-9194-y     Document Type: Article

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