On Monday 21st November 2022, faculty members of College of Pharmacy attended a face-to-face Faculty Development Session titled: “How Doctors Think? A Neuroscientific Investigation of Clinical Reasoning & Decision making”. The session was delivered by Prof. Jerome Rotgans, Adjunct Associate Professor, Erasmus University (The Netherlands); Head of Psychometric Services Singapore (Psy-S); and Adjunct Professor, GMU (UAE).
During the session, Dr. Jerome presented the dual-process theory of psychological mechanisms running in the backend during clinical reasoning. Dr. Jerome revealed that all decision-makers have two totally independent and competing brain regions, one guides fast automatic reasoning, while the other is slower and more analytical.
The session was followed by a workshop on Tuesday 22nd November 2022 titled: “Making Sense of High-Stake Exams Data (written & OSCE): a model from the College of Dentistry at GMU”. During the workshop, Dr. Jerome engaged with the attendees in a thorough discussion about the practices used in Item response theory (IRT) as a measurement tool for the effectiveness of assessments and its potential practicality in various medical education settings for the estimation of clinical performance.