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Vahid Ashoorion1, Mohammad Javad Liaghatdar, Peyman Adibi

  • 1Department of Educational Sciences, School of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Isfahan University, Medical Education Research Center, Isfahan, Iran.

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Emotional intelligence, not critical thinking or personality, significantly predicts physician clinical reasoning. This finding is crucial for medical education and physician assessment strategies.

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  • Medical Education
  • Psychology
  • Healthcare Competency Assessment

Background:

  • Clinical reasoning is a core physician competency.
  • Predicting clinical reasoning is vital for medical schools and licensing bodies.
  • General measures like critical thinking, personality, and emotional intelligence are often used for prediction.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To model the relationship between clinical reasoning and other psychological constructs.
  • To identify which factors best predict clinical reasoning ability in medical students.

Main Methods:

  • Sixty-nine medical students completed a battery of tests.
  • Tests included measures of clinical reasoning, personality (NEO-PI), emotional intelligence (Bar-On EQ-i), and critical thinking (CCTST).
  • Correlation and multiple regression analyses were performed.

Main Results:

  • Low to moderate correlations were found between clinical reasoning and other tested variables.
  • Emotional intelligence demonstrated a significant positive contribution to predicting clinical reasoning (R² change = 0.46, P < 0.001).
  • Critical thinking and personality showed no significant predictive power.

Conclusions:

  • Clinical reasoning, while a form of thinking, is not significantly correlated with critical thinking or personality traits.
  • Emotional intelligence and its subscales are the primary predictors of clinical reasoning ability.
  • These findings have implications for developing targeted educational interventions and assessment tools in medical training.