Table 1 Questions for medical teacher interview and student FGD

A

MEDICAL TEACHER INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

 1. How long have you been involved in teaching medical students? In what activities have you been involved?

 2. How would you define clinical reasoning (in terms of medical students’ training)?

 3. Do you think that clinical reasoning can be taught to medical students? Would you please explain why/ why not?

 4. In your experience, what are the issues in teaching and learning clinical reasoning? How do you do the teaching well?

 5. What do you think about the overall medical curriculum you’re involved in? Do you think that it facilitates clinical reasoning teaching and learning? (If so, how?)

B

STUDENT FGD QUESTIONS

 GENERAL QUESTIONS (OPENING)

  1. When you’re given the term ‘clinical reasoning’, what comes into your mind/what picture that comes into your mind?

  2. How would you describe clinical reasoning to me as a person who knows nothing about clinical reasoning?

 KEY QUESTIONS

  3. What is the best way to learn clinical reasoning? Can you please give some examples?

  4. To what extent the medical course has been able to do this for you?

  5. Which learning activities in the course have been most useful to you in your learning of clinical reasoning? And which learning activities in the course have been less useful to you?

  6. What stage of the course do you think is the best time to learn clinical reasoning?

 FINISHING QUESTION

  7. All of Medical Education Unit academic staffs have run away, and you’re the only one left. How would you set it up?