Clinical reasoning education in the clerkship years: A cross-disciplinary national needs assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Improving clinical reasoning education has been identified as an important strategy to reduce diagnostic error-an important cause of adverse patient outcomes. Clinical reasoning is fundamental to each specialty, yet the extent to which explicit instruction in clinical reasoning occurs across specialties in the clerkship years remains unclear.

Method

The Alliance for Clinical Education (ACE) Clinical Reasoning Workgroup and the Directors of Clinical Skills Courses (DOCS) Clinical Reasoning Workgroup collaborated to develop a clinical reasoning needs assessment survey. The survey questionnaire covered seven common clinical reasoning topics including illness scripts, semantic qualifiers, cognitive biases and dual process theory. Questionnaires were delivered electron

SUBMITTER: Gold JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9387845 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature