Teaching Hypothesis-Driven History taking at the Bedside: a qualitative study of perspectives, possibilities and precautions

How they used Delve

Clinical educators in NHS Lanarkshire and the University of Glasgow used Delve as the shared platform for storing codes from focus groups with medical students, so that all researchers could access the structured code set while three of them built codes and themes together across meetings.

“Focus groups were analysed using Braun and Clarke's six-step approach to thematic analysis, assisted by the Delve Tool. Delve tool was used as a platform on which to store codes in a structured way, that was accessible by all researchers.”

Field

Medical education / clinical reasoning

Data

Semi-structured focus groups with University of Glasgow undergraduate medical students after two bedside teaching sessions at NHS Lanarkshire hospitals

Approach

Constructivist qualitative study; Braun and Clarke six-step thematic analysis of focus groups, with three authors constructing codes and themes interactively over meetings and all authors refining them

Data types

Focus groups