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Direct linkFilipe Leite-Mendes; Luis Delgado; Amelia Ferreira; Milton Severo – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2024
Given the high prevalence of multiple-choice examinations with formula scoring in medical training, several studies have tried to identify other factors in addition to the degree of knowledge of students which influence their response patterns. This study aims to measure the effect of students' attitude towards risk and ambiguity on their number…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Schools, Medical Students, Student Attitudes
Yap, Ana; Johanesen, Priscilla; Walsh, Chris – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2023
Uncertainty tolerance (UT) is integral to healthcare. Providers' responses to medical uncertainty has ramifications on the healthcare system, the healthcare provider and the patient. Understanding healthcare providers' UT, is important for improving patient-care outcomes. Understanding whether and to what extent it is possible to modulate…
Descriptors: Health Services, Ambiguity (Context), Health Personnel, Work Environment
Stephens, Georgina C.; Rees, Charlotte E.; Lazarus, Michelle D. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2021
Tolerance of uncertainty, a construct describing individuals' responses to perceived uncertainty, has relevancy across healthcare systems, yet little work explores the impact of education on medical students' tolerance of uncertainty. While debate remains as to whether tolerance of uncertainty is changeable or static, the prevailing conceptual…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Student Attitudes, Ambiguity (Context), Medical Education
Ilgen, Jonathan S.; Eva, Kevin W.; de Bruin, Anique; Cook, David A.; Regehr, Glenn – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2019
Learning to take safe and effective action in complex settings rife with uncertainty is essential for patient safety and quality care. Doing so is not easy for trainees, as they often consider certainty to be a necessary precursor for action and subsequently struggle in these settings. Understanding how skillful clinicians work comfortably when…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Beliefs, Decision Making, Physicians
Moffett, Jenny; Hammond, Jennifer; Murphy, Paul; Pawlikowska, Teresa – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2021
Although the evidence base around uncertainty and education has expanded in recent years, a lack of clarity around conceptual terms and a heterogeneity of study designs means that this landscape remains indistinct. This scoping review explores how undergraduate health professions' students learn to engage with uncertainty related to their academic…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Medical Education, Student Attitudes
Hancock, Jason; Roberts, Martin; Monrouxe, Lynn; Mattick, Karen – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2015
The practice of medicine involves inherent ambiguity, arising from limitations of knowledge, diagnostic problems, complexities of treatment and outcome and unpredictability of patient response. Research into doctors' tolerance of ambiguity is hampered by poor conceptual clarity and inadequate measurement scales. We aimed to create and pilot a…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Physicians, Entry Workers, Ambiguity (Context)
