Clinical Reasoning Education at US Medical Schools: Results from a National Survey of Internal Medicine Clerkship Directors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent reports, including the Institute of Medicine's Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, highlight the pervasiveness and underappreciated harm of diagnostic error, and recommend enhancing health care professional education in diagnostic reasoning. However, little is known about clinical reasoning curricula at US medical schools.

Objective

To describe clinical reasoning curricula at US medical schools and to determine the attitudes of internal medicine clerkship directors toward teaching of clinical reasoning.

Design

Cross-sectional multicenter study.

Participants

US institutional members of the Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine (CDIM).

Main measures

Examined responses to a survey that was emailed in May 2015 to CDIM institutional repre

SUBMITTER: Rencic J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5653563 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature