title: Cognitive complexity, rhetorical sensitivity: contributing factors in clinical skill?
abstract: Rhetorical sensitivity and cognitive complexity, measures of interpersonal sensitivity and complexity of interpersonal construct systems, were investigated in this study as they relate to clinical skill. A clinical evaluation tool was developed and validated in order to identify outstanding and failing clinicians. Cognitive complexity and rhetorical sensitivity data were collected and analyzed to compare two groups of clinicians representing the extremes of clinical ability. Outstanding and failing clinicians were not differentiated on the basis of these measures. The clinical implications of these findings were addressed.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003071:Cognition; D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D010556:Personality Tests; D013066:Speech-Language Pathology / Q000592:standards*; D013336:Students, Health Occupations / Q000523:psychology