Investigation and analysis of cognitive of clinical thinking ability training in medical students

Objective To investigate the basic and necessary conditions of the clinical thinking ability training by understanding the cognitive situation of clinical thinking ability training in medical students.Methods The cluster sampling method was used to select 216 and 189 clinical undergraduate students in Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital in 2013 and 2012 for survey.Cognitive of clinical thinking skills training before and after internships were investigated.The results were statistically analyzed by using SPSS 19.0 software.Results The differences were statistically significant before and after internships of the basic conditions of clinical thinking ability training including regularly teaching rounds,clinical teaching seminars and medical malpractice prevention(P 0.01).The differences were statistically significant before and after internships of the necessary conditions including doctor-patient communication skills,specialist consultation examination and difficult cases internship discussion(P 0.01).Conclusion It is very important to train the clinical thinking ability of medical students.The basic and necessary conditions of training need further studying,exploring and improving.