Triple Taxon Test/Technique: An Innovative Method for Self-Learning and Self-Evaluation in Health Problems

Abstract

To manage a patient, physicians, and medical students need to collect the patient’s data and information in different ways, evaluate, interpret, analyze clinical reasoning, and, after diagnosis, take action to solve the patient’s problem. For this purpose, they must pass at least three summarized categories of the cognition domain. These three categories include: remembering, interpretation, and problem-solving. In this article, we intend to introduce an innovative case-based practice or test technique to our audiences, which includes all three above-mentioned categories. We have named this method TTT (Triple Taxonomy Tests/technique) or MTQ (Mixed Taxonomy Questions). This form of case-based test/technique is applicable in self-learning, self-assessment, or official evaluations, which is explained below in the form of an example.