Let's Think Through This Together: Helping Learners Develop Clinical Reasoning Skills and Helping Faculty Add to Their Entrustable Professional Activities and Curricular Milestone Toolboxes (SA503)

As learners acquire medical knowledge and facts, they must mentally consider, organize, and select the next logical step in a patient's diagnosis or treatment. This medical problem solving, or clinical reasoning, is skill development that requires critical thinking and organized processing. As educators, explaining one's own clinical reasoning or “showing your work” is powerful role modeling that aids learner development. Furthermore, assessing a learner's clinical reasoning is important for faculty differentiating between a learner's good guess or sound acquisition of a thoughtful problem-solving approach.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - Category: Palliative Care Authors: Source Type: research