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Table 1 The description of intervention and control group’s workshop

From: Teaching clinical reasoning to undergraduate medical students by illness script method: a randomized controlled trial

Component

Time (Minutes)

Intervention Group

Control Group

Introduction

30

Didactic lecture

Essential components of the clinical diagnostic process

Didactic lecture

Edema

Main Topic

180

Problem representation and developing illness script

Lecturing three diseases (Cirrhosis, CHF, and Nephrotic syndrome)

Break

30

  

Small-Group Discussion

180

Differential diagnosis discussion about a case of pedal edema

Discussion about three diseases (Cirrhosis, CHF, and Nephrotic syndrome)

Debrief

30

Open discussion

Open Discussion