In our study, the frequency of the use of verbal formats in risk communication appeared to be associated with gender; female physicians communicated risk more often in verbal formats than male physicians.
Prior to the child's choice, the quantities can be presented in non-symbolic format (sets of "gold pieces", which are controlled for density or luminance), in symbolic Arabic format (digits), in symbolic verbal format (spoken number words), or in a combination of these formats.
This tendency of female physicians and female patients to communicate exclusively in a verbal format should also be addressed in the development of medical education programs and tools.
Instead, these data indicate that multiplication facts are represented at least partially in a verbal format.
This additional information, provided in both written and verbal format to the study principal investigator (and first author) in an unsolicited manner at the end of each day of data collection, provides in-depth insights for this paper; where appropriate in the paper, this information is supplemented with quantitative data from the simulated client checklist.
[ 2] Apart from knowledge, skills and attitudes, competence also incorporates a health professional's problem solving skills (e.g. ability to critically think and apply clinical reasoning) and ability to work as a team member and communicate effectively, both in a written and verbal format.
It was also predicted that functional information would be biased towards a verbal format, since much of the function of the pump is hidden and difficult to express in pictures.
Learning advantages for the generation of visualizations could be attributed to learners' translating across modalities, from a verbal format into a visual format.
In sum, both numerical and verbal formats have their pros and cons (see also Lipkus [ 25]).
The majority (73%) of primary care physicians participating in this study used exclusively verbal formats to communicate cardiovascular risk to their patients.
