Self-Monitoring in Graduate Medical Education: An Opportunity for the Think Aloud Interview
Abstract
Accurate physician self-monitoring, in-the-moment self-awareness of performance, may be an important factor for improving patient safety, by reducing diagnostic and therapeutic reasoning errors. While physicians and physicians-in-training have repeatedly demonstrated poor accuracy of global self-assessments, which are assessments removed from the context of a specific task, regardless of any intervention. Self-monitoring offers a promising alternative to global self-assessment. In this thesis, we will first explore the current role of self-monitoring in graduate medical education, identifying gaps in current literature and opportunities for future work. Next, we will describe the think aloud protocol in a qualitative methodology review, highlighting best-practices and common pitfalls for researching self-monitoring to research the more obscure aspects of self-monitoring. Taken together, this work will contribute to the growing understanding of self-monitoring and lay the groundwork for future understanding using the think aloud protocol with long-term goal of contributing to improved patient safety.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 28, 2022
- Accession Number
- AD1212226
Entities
People
- William R. Johnson
Organizations
- Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences