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Table 3 Trainees’ scores in group history taking with individual reasoning activity

From: Assessing clinical reasoning ability in fourth-year medical students via an integrative group history-taking with an individual reasoning activity

Scenarios (Tn)

Group History Taking Score

Key Information Number

Diagnosis Number

Correct “the most likely diagnosis” Rate

1. Hemoptysis (21)

50.1 ± 4.0

7.2 ± 1.5

1.7 ± 0.7

38.1%

2. Abdominal pain (12)

71.7 ± 2.5

4.6 ± 1.9

1.0 ± 0.9

8.3%

3. Fever (16)

66.2 ± 2.6

8.1 ± 0.7

0.6 ± 0.6

29.4%

4. Anemia (11)

56.7 ± 8.7

5.7 ± 0.6

1.0 ± 0.8

18.2%

5. Chest pain (16)

76.9 ± 4.8

7.7 ± 2.2

1.0 ± 0.4

87.5%

Average (76)

63.5 ± 11.4

6.9 ± 1.9

1.1 ± 0.8

38.2%

  1. Tn Trainee’s number; Key Information Number, the written down number of 15 key words; Diagnosis Number, the accurate diagnosis number of three diagnosis answers