Original articles
Tools to promote reflection on professional experience: the Situational Judgment Test
Published 2020-12-11
Keywords
- Situational Judgment Test,
- Decentralization,
- Interpersonal skills,
- Critical accidents
Abstract
What tools are available to support reflection by trainees on professional practices? The paper presents the Situational Judgment Test, a method that is being used in the selection of personnel and that we adapted to be of support to higher education Medicine students during their internship. The paper outlines the tool’s features and its planning phases. It focuses on the potential for critical incidents to elicit reflection on the mindsets and mental frames that are conditioning the professional agency.