Role of social comparison in preparedness for practice as a junior doctor in Singapore: a longitudinal qualitative study.

Objectives: To date, most research on medical graduates' preparedness for practice has conceptualised preparedness as something possessed by the individual. However, new doctors work within social settings with other people and, given this, we argue that preparedness has a social and comparative dimension. The aim of this paper is to explore medical students'/graduates' self-assessments of their preparedness for practice using the lens of social comparison theory.

Inducing System-1-type diagnostic reasoning in second-year medical students within 15 minutes.

Diagnostic reasoning literature debates the significance of "dual-process theory" and the importance of its constituent types of thinking: System-1and System-2. This experimental study aimed to determine whether novice medical students could be trained to utilize System-1 thinking when making diagnoses based on chest X-rays. Second-year medical students were recruited and presented with a series of eight online chest X-rays cases.