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  • Medical Education
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Threshold skills represent transformative ways of thinking and performing within a discipline.
  • These skills are pivotal for advancing learners' progress and understanding.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine if clinical reasoning exhibits the characteristics of a threshold skill.
  • Investigate the nature of clinical reasoning as a developmental process.

Main Methods:

  • Interviewed 25 final-year medical students using a five-question protocol.
  • Analyzed student responses deductively to identify threshold skill features.

Main Results:

  • Student descriptions revealed five key features of threshold skills in clinical reasoning: transformation, troublesomeness, integration, association with practice, and transferability issues.
  • Clinical reasoning learning is described as initially difficult but improvable with practice.

Conclusions:

  • Classifying clinical reasoning as a threshold skill offers a novel perspective with implications for learning, teaching, and research.
  • Students can be assured that mastery of clinical reasoning is achievable through dedicated practice and supervision.