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The case-based clinical reasoning (CBCR) course significantly enhanced medical students' illness script richness and diagnostic performance for specific diseases. This suggests CBCR training improves early clinical reasoning skills in preclinical students.

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  • Medical Education
  • Cognitive Science
  • Clinical Reasoning

Background:

  • Developing robust illness scripts is crucial for clinical reasoning.
  • Preclinical medical education often lacks structured approaches to foster these skills.
  • Case-based clinical reasoning (CBCR) is an instructional format designed to enhance diagnostic capabilities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the impact of a structured CBCR course on the richness and maturity of preclinical medical students' illness scripts.
  • To assess whether the CBCR course improves diagnostic performance in preclinical students.
  • To explore the relationship between CBCR course performance and clinical reasoning skill development.

Main Methods:

  • A within-subject experimental design was employed with 32 preclinical medical students.
  • Illness script richness and maturity were compared for diseases covered in the CBCR course versus those not covered.
  • Diagnostic performance was assessed for CBCR and non-CBCR cases, with correlations to exam scores.

Main Results:

  • Illness script richness was significantly higher for CBCR-diseases (14.47) compared to non-CBCR diseases (12.14).
  • Diagnostic performance was significantly better for CBCR-diseases (1.63) than for non-CBCR diseases (1.15).
  • Exam scores correlated with recognition of CBCR cases but not with illness script richness.

Conclusions:

  • The CBCR course effectively enhances illness script richness and diagnostic performance in preclinical students.
  • This structured learning format promotes the early development of disease-specific clinical reasoning skills.
  • The observed improvements are disease-specific, and broader clinical reasoning ability cannot be inferred from these findings.