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Table 4 Rating scheme for structured discussions

From: How to enhance and assess reflection in specialist training: a mixed method validation study of a new tool for global assessment of reflection ability

 

QUANTITATIVE

QUALITATIVE

SOLO 2

SOLO 3

SOLO 4

SOLO 5

Ability to reflect on topical issue and one’s own work, role and options.

”Uni-structural”

”Multi-structural”

”Relational”

”Extended abstract”

Educator

Memorise, identify, recognise, count, define, find label, match, name, quote, recall recite, order, tell, write imitate

Classify, describe, list, report, discuss, illustrate, select, narrate, compute, sequence, outline, separate

Apply, integrate analyse, explain, predict, conclude, summarise, review, argue, transfer, make a plan, characterise, compare, contrast, differentiate, organise, debate, make a case, construct, review and rewrite, examine, translate, paraphrase, solve a problem

Theorise, hypothesise, generalise, reflect, generate, create, compose, invent, originate, prove from first principles, make an original case, solve from first principles

Considerations about prior qualifications, level, and needs in the target group

    

Considerations about adaptation to prior qualifications, level, and needs in the target group

    

Considerations about teaching method(s)

    

Considerations about factors enhancing and inhibiting learning

    

Considerations about own work, role and options in relation to teaching colleagues and staff

    

Global rating

    

Different types of patient encounters

Memorise, identify, recognise, count, define, find label, match, name, quote, recall recite, order, tell, write imitate

Classify, describe, list, report, discuss, illustrate, select, narrate, compute, sequence, outline, separate

Apply, integrate analyse, explain, predict, conclude, summarise, review, argue, transfer, make a plan, characterise, compare, contrast, differentiate, organise, debate, make a case, construct, review and rewrite, examine, translate, paraphrase, solve a problem

Theorise, hypothesise, generalise, reflect, generate, create, compose, invent, originate, prove from first principles, make an original case, solve from first principles

Considerations about implications for patient communication in different kinds of patient encounters (consultation, phone calls, e-mail, home visits)

    

Considerations about own role in relation to home visits

    

Considerations about impact of individual, societal, cultural, and contextual circumstances in relation to patient communication and presentation of symptoms

    

Considerations about patient communication using an interpreter

    

Considerations about impact on communication in case of interruptions, need for prioritising several simultaneous tasks, communication about several topics at a time, and communication with numerous persons at a time

    

Global rating