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The reliability of a hypothesis generation and testing task

dc.contributor.authorDonnelly, Michael B.en_US
dc.contributor.authorSisson, James C.en_US
dc.contributor.authorWoolliscroft, James O.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-06-01T18:41:20Z
dc.date.available2010-06-01T18:41:20Z
dc.date.issued1990-11en_US
dc.identifier.citationDONNELLY, M. B.; SISSON, J. C.; WOOLLISCROFT, J. O. (1990). "The reliability of a hypothesis generation and testing task." Medical Education 24(6): 507-511. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/71888>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0308-0110en_US
dc.identifier.issn1365-2923en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/71888
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=2266887&dopt=citationen_US
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this paper is to present results of initial experience with a clinical reasoning task which assesses two clearly defined aspects of clinical problem solving. Fourteen senior and 40 junior medical students at the University of Michigan Medical School participated in this study. They were given three clinical reasoning problems — the hypothesis generation and testing tasks (HG&T). As suggested by the name, two specifically defined components of clinical problem-solving, developing the initial hypotheses or differential and then testing hypotheses, were evaluated by these tasks. The findings of this study indicate that hypothesis generation and testing can be reliably evaluated with between seven and ten tasks. The results of this study suggest that reliable assessments of specific components of clinical problem-solving can be developed.en_US
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dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Ltden_US
dc.rights1990 Blackwell Publishingen_US
dc.subject.other*Clinical Competenceen_US
dc.subject.other*Problem Solvingen_US
dc.subject.otherEducation, Medical Undergraduate/*Methodsen_US
dc.subject.otherMichiganen_US
dc.titleThe reliability of a hypothesis generation and testing tasken_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelEducationen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelMedicine (General)en_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelHealth Sciencesen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumDepartment of Postgraduate Medicine and Health Professions Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michiganen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationum† Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michiganen_US
dc.identifier.pmid2266887en_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/71888/1/j.1365-2923.1990.tb02666.x.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1365-2923.1990.tb02666.xen_US
dc.identifier.sourceMedical Educationen_US
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