Teaching skills to promote clinical reasoning in early basic science courses

Anat Sci Educ. 2010 Sep-Oct;3(5):267-71. doi: 10.1002/ase.178.

Abstract

Basic and superior reasoning skills are woven into the clinical reasoning process just as they are used to solve any problem. As clinical reasoning is the central competence of medical education, development of these reasoning skills should occur throughout the undergraduate medical curriculum. The authors describe here a method of teaching reasoning skills in a clinical context during a human anatomy course.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Anatomy / education*
  • Clinical Competence
  • Cognition*
  • Curriculum
  • Education, Medical, Undergraduate / methods*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Physician-Patient Relations
  • Problem-Based Learning
  • Students, Medical* / psychology
  • Teaching / methods*