Resident self-explanation with prompts produced a large improvement in diagnostic performance compared with solving word puzzles¶

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q3 i3 Diagnostic performance was statistically significantly better with self-explanation with prompts than with solving word puzzles (SMD 1.601). → Delavari S 2024

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Delavari S 2024¶

Delavari S, Barzkar F, Rikers MJP, Pourahmadi M, Soltani Arabshahi SK, Keshtkar A, Dargahi H, Yaghmaei M, Monajemi A. (2024). Teaching and learning clinical reasoning skill in undergraduate medical students: A scoping review. PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0309606

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The review reports this finding from an included study (attributed to reference [4]) comparing self-explanation with prompts against a word-puzzle control group, with printed effect size SMD = 1.601 (confidence interval 0.85–2.353) for diagnostic performance.

"Diagnostic performance was statistically significantly affected by resident self-explanation with prompts in contrast to solving word puzzles (control group) (SMD, 1.601[0.85–2.353])"

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