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View article: Tips: Leading From the Middle of an Organization
Tips: Leading From the Middle of an Organization Open
The vast majority of medical officers and physicians are called upon to lead from the middle of the organization. To be effective, one must understand the different approaches needed to exert positive influence up, down, and across the cha…
View article: Using Self-Regulated Learning Microanalysis to Examine Regulatory Processes in Clerkship Students Engaged in Practice Questions
Using Self-Regulated Learning Microanalysis to Examine Regulatory Processes in Clerkship Students Engaged in Practice Questions Open
Introduction: Self-regulated learning is a cyclical process of forethought, performance, and self-reflection that has been used as an assessment tool in medical education. No prior studies have evaluated SRL processes for answering multipl…
View article: The Retention of USUHS Military Physicians: An Exploratory Study
The Retention of USUHS Military Physicians: An Exploratory Study Open
Background Previously, researchers investigated the career accomplishments of USU medical graduates using the data from a USU alumni survey. To better understand if such accomplishments are related to military retention, the current study …
View article: Career Accomplishments of Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Medical Graduates: Classes 1980–2017
Career Accomplishments of Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Medical Graduates: Classes 1980–2017 Open
Background The current study reports career accomplishments of Uniformed Services University (USU) graduates in four areas: (1) positions held over the course of their entire career, (2) military awards, decorations, and rank, (3) first re…
View article: Examining the patterns of uncertainty across clinical reasoning tasks: effects of contextual factors on the clinical reasoning process
Examining the patterns of uncertainty across clinical reasoning tasks: effects of contextual factors on the clinical reasoning process Open
Objectives Uncertainty is common in clinical reasoning given the dynamic processes required to come to a diagnosis. Though some uncertainty is expected during clinical encounters, it can have detrimental effects on clinical reasoning. Like…
View article: Understanding context specificity: the effect of contextual factors on clinical reasoning
Understanding context specificity: the effect of contextual factors on clinical reasoning Open
Background Situated cognition theory argues that thinking is inextricably situated in a context. In clinical reasoning, this can lead to context specificity : a physician arriving at two different diagnoses for two patients with the same s…
View article: It Totally Possibly Could Be: How a Group of Military Physicians Reflect on Their Clinical Reasoning in the Presence of Contextual Factors
It Totally Possibly Could Be: How a Group of Military Physicians Reflect on Their Clinical Reasoning in the Presence of Contextual Factors Open
Introduction Contextual factors (eg, diagnostic suggestion and burnout) can affect physician clinical reasoning performance, leading to diagnostic error. Yet, contextual factors have only recently been studied and none of that work focused…
View article: Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability Correlate with Clinical Reasoning Performance and Self-Reported Measures of Cognitive Load
Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability Correlate with Clinical Reasoning Performance and Self-Reported Measures of Cognitive Load Open
Cognitive load is a key mediator of cognitive processing that may impact clinical reasoning performance. The purpose of this study was to gather biologic validity evidence for correlates of different types of self-reported cognitive load, …
View article: Use of clinical reasoning tasks by medical students
Use of clinical reasoning tasks by medical students Open
Background A framework of clinical reasoning tasks used by physicians during clinical encounters was previously developed proposing that clinical reasoning is a complex process composed of 26 possible tasks. The aim of this paper was to an…
View article: Context and clinical reasoning: Understanding the medical student perspective
Context and clinical reasoning: Understanding the medical student perspective Open
Introduction Studies have shown that a physician’s clinical reasoning performance can be influenced by contextual factors. We explored how the clinical reasoning performance of medical students was impacted by contextual factors in order t…
View article: In Reply to Ma et al
In Reply to Ma et al Open
Thank you for the opportunity to reply to Ma and colleagues’ letter regarding our article.1 We agree with Ma and colleagues that context-specific knowledge, as well as context-specific skill and attitude (using the analytic framework), are…
View article: Exploring Implications of Context Specificity and Cognitive Load in Residents
Exploring Implications of Context Specificity and Cognitive Load in Residents Open
This article was migrated. The article was not marked as recommended. Introduction: Context specificity (CS) refers to the variability in clinical reasoning across different presentations of the same diagnosis. Cognitive load (CL) refers t…