Table 2 Supportive quotes for theme 2 ‘becoming a holistic clinician’

‘I think any written exam is always going to have the same issue where people are only given a very finite amount of information, and they’re not allowed to seek clarification on it, and to respond to the information they’re given. So I’m a big supporter of on the ward, more clinical-style assessment.’

‘Partly in principle and partly because I know that if I give them what they want, and then it turns out that they wanted the on the wards question, like the response, then I would be furious with myself. But I think I drop a good five per cent every exam I sit by answering things on principle.’

‘I think in the immediate context, as an intern, I would probably go and do a first aid of rehydration and recovery because that is what we are taught to do acutely, and then go about with investigations, history exam, and consulting a senior clinician’

‘I think it’s important because then you get that kind of instinct, the clinical instinct, but you also have like the locations and the clinical information which help us to refine the clinical instinct. Yeah, so by – I know that when we’re being assessed the assessment purely wants us to make certain connections, and so I think okay when I see this clue, what kind of change should I make and what kind of like relationship do they want me to form?’