1. What are risk-scoring tools?
Clinical decisions
Probability
Currently experiencing
Will experience
(Slovis, 2018)

2. Risk-scoring tools are…
Valuable
Recommended
Use is variable, often low
Better at predicting clinical outcomes than doctors
(Adams and Leveson, 2012) 58
(Plüddemann et al., 2014)
7-60%
(Muller-Riemenschneider et al., 2010)

3. Act as a barrier to the doctor-patient relationship
Previous literature
Distrust in validity
Low adoption
Perceptions
Act as a barrier to the doctor-patient relationship
Too time consuming
Sarazin et al. (2013)

4. WHAT ARE MEDICAL STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS CLINICAL RISK-SCORING TOOLS?
A qualitative study exploring how medical students perceive risk-scoring tools
F.S. Tomlinson
T.A. Willis

5. Methods Recruitment and sampling Convenience sampling 8 participants
4th and 5th year medical students

6. Methods Data Collection Semi-structured interviews Audio-recorded
Transcribed

7. Methods
Data Analysis

8. Findings – Key Themes Risk-scoring tool features Practicalities
Educational Factors

9. Theme 1: Risk-scoring tool features
Potential to be acted upon
Ability to guide history
Evidence base
“Without any guidance on how to interpret the score in terms of management… it’s not all that useful.” (P1)

10. Theme 2: Practicalities
…even if something is fantastic, if it takes too long… a lot of people wouldn’t use it (P3)
Ease of use
Practical incentives

11. Theme 3: Educational Factors
Teaching and learning
Respected Clinicians
Trust
Presence in exams

12. Experience on placement Unnecessary for experienced doctors
Observation
Talking to clinicians
Junior doctors
Useful
Used and found useful
Used and found useful
Junior doctors
Useful
Used and found useful
Junior doctors
Useful
Used and found useful
Junior doctors
Useful
Used and found useful
Useful
Junior doctors
Useful
Used and found useful
Junior doctors
Unnecessary for experienced doctors
“tiresome” “pointless”
Not used

13. What will happen if these views are maintained?

14. Experienced Clinicians
b) Targeted teaching for students
Not useful when experienced b
Medical Students
Experienced Clinicians
Do not use a
Not useful when experienced
a) Targeted teaching for clinicians

15. Implications for Practice and Future Research
Technology
Targeted teaching

16. Limitations
Convenience sampling
Small sample size

17. Conclusion Medical students
Practical barriers were in line with past literature – technology
Risk-scoring tools were believed to hold less value for experienced doctors
Targeted teaching

18. Thank you for listening!