Self-Ratings of Confidence in Clinical and Critical Thinking Problem-Solving as a Function of Post-Qualification Experience. A Study of Radiation Therapists

Helena Ferris, Kenneth McKenzie and Kevin Thomas
Additional contact information
Helena Ferris: School of Radiation Therapy, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin
Kenneth McKenzie: Geary Institute, University College Dublin
Kevin Thomas: School of Psychology, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin

No 200713, Working Papers from Geary Institute, University College Dublin

Abstract: Recognising one’s abilities and limits in clinical tasks is a valuable part of professionalism. This study investigated the self-ratings of problem-solving confidence of radiation therapists in two domains: clinical scenarios and critical thinking items. We divided the sixty participants into three groups based on post-qualification experience (PQE), and found that greater PQE was linked with higher self-rated confidence on clinical scenarios, but not in critical thinking items.

Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2007-05-08
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.ucd.ie/geary/static/publications/workingpapers/GearyWp200713.pdf First version, 2007 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucd:wpaper:200713

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Geary Institute, University College Dublin Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Geary Tech ().