Erik Stolper presented in behalf of the Maastricht-Antwerp group the first results of a study ‘Analytical and non-analytical reasoning in tutorial dialogues and the use of knowledge’. A tutorial dialogue (TD) is a one-to-one teaching dialogue between a GP trainer and a GP trainee. 17 TD were included focussed on diagnostic reasoning.

The research questions were: what is the structure of a TD? How are analytical reasoning and non-analytical reasoning presented in the TD? And how is the use of knowledge?