What every teacher needs to know about clinical reasoning
Educación MédicaPublished 1 June 2005
Eva Kevin W.
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Abstract
CONTEXT One of the core tasks assigned to clinical teachers is to enable students to sort through a cluster of features presented by a patient and accurately assign a diagnostic label, with the development of an appropriate treatment strategy being the end goal. Over the last 30 years there has been considerable debate within the health sciences education literature regarding the model that best describes how expert clinicians generate diagnostic decisions.
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