Preparing medical students for clinical decision making: A pilot study exploring how students make decisions and the perceived impact of a clinical decision making teaching intervention

Abstract

Students continue to feel unprepared for the responsibility of clinical decision making. A teaching intervention, including simulated individual clinical scenarios, later in undergraduate training, appeared to be useful in improving medical students' decision making, specifically in relation to making a diagnosis, prioritising, asking for help and multi-tasking, but further work is required.