UA COM uses the new version of a web-based tool for learning called ThinkShare® (ThinkShareapp.com) in the Clinical Reasoning Course, which incorporates case based instruction.
Why use a web-based tool?
The goal is to prompt students to reflect on decision-making processes as they consider a variety of cases, something health care professionals do to engage in reflective practice (Schön, 1983).
Reflective practice involves reflection at three critical junctures in decision-making: preparation or planning, engagement in activity, and after making and implementing a decision (Plack and Santasier, 2005). This is to ensure that decisions are well-considered and based on evidence, and that the decision maker examines their process for error and learns from their mistakes.
Online Tools Provide Opportunity for Metacognitive Engagement
ThinkShare® encourages students to think metacognitively about the cases as they articulate the rationale for decisions made in developing and narrowing differential diagnoses. Students use these social network software before attending and following a facilitated session with peers. When students submit their ideas about the case, their entries become available to peers who have made such entries and to facilitators. nbsp;
Facilitators Guide Development of Problem-solving Skills
Facilitators review students' entries, including post-case reflections, to gain a sense of not only what students are thinking but how they arrive at their decisions, how they identify or resolve errors they might have made, and skills or knowledge students describe as in need of improvement.
Questions?
Please use the menu to view the Quick Guide, explaining the course structure and how ThinkShare® will be used in hte Clinical Reasoning Course.
If you have additional questions about ThinkShare®, please contact Herman Gordon, PhD. If you have questions about facilitator training or want to facilitate CBI, please contact the Director of FID.
References
Plack MM & Santasier LG. The Reflective Practitioner: Reaching for Excellence in Practice. Commentary, In Pediatrics. pp. 1545-1553, accessed at http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/116/6/1546.full.html; 2005.
Schön D. The reflective practitioner: How professionals think in action. NY:Basic Books; 1983. [Access at Google Books]
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