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Table 1 Sub-themes obtain form student answers

From: Exploring medical students’ perceptions of individual and group-based clinical reasoning with virtual patients: a qualitative study

 

Individual clinical reasoning

Individual & group clinical reasoning

Positive

aspects

giving them the freedom to make decisions

making them conscious of being team members

 

observe consequences from individual mistakes

recognizing their faulty or incomplete information

 

conduct self-evaluations

bringing different views together on common ground

  

supporting active learning

  

providing new knowledge and perspective

  

increasing learning permanence

Negative

aspect

N/A

causing difficulties in communication and decision-making processes