Argumentation theory is an area of interdisciplinary research that is suitable to characterise several diverse situations of reasoning and judgement in real world practices and challenges.
With a changing mode of service delivery in the community, students in the health care field need to equip themselves with better clinical reasoning skills, judgement, and problem solving abilities.
This category includes such abilities as problem analysis, verbal reasoning, intuitive judgement, practical learning and strategic thinking or planning.
An essay might test higher powers of reasoning and judgement but will be time-consuming to mark and risk considerable variation in standards of marking [ 4].
On the one hand it is a system predicated on and requiring case-based reasoning and judgement, to ensure that funding decisions are based upon individual patient circumstances [ 15].
To explore what Australian experts value in breast screening, how these values are conceptualised and prioritised, and how they inform experts' reasoning and judgement about the Australian breast-screening programme.
Differences in attitude, reasoning and judgement result from divergent systems of values or interpretation of empirical data, and from use of different methodological approaches that may focus on alternative aspects [ 12].
The second phase of the project did not include MEQs as part of the assessment, because independent of this study we had shown that well constructed MCQs were capable of testing the higher order cognitive skills of reasoning and judgement and did so more reliably than MEQs [ 18].
The MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool - Treatment and a clinical interview were used to assess decision-making abilities (understanding, appreciating and reasoning) and judgements of DMC.
Despite these limitations, using physical simulation as a vehicle for improving the fidelity (and thus representativeness) of clinical scenarios is a promising approach to eliciting and evaluating clinicians' reasoning and judgements.
