Maria Joana Osorio, MD Poonam Bhatia, MD Giulio Zuccoli, MD Deborah Holder, MD SECTION 1 A 14-year-old girl presented to the neurology clinic complaining of headaches. She described her headaches as mild (intensity 3/10), holocranial, and pounding in character. There was no nausea or vomiting, or photophobia or phonophobia. The patient described in detail a sequence of symptoms from the onset o...

Problem-based learning (PBL) is used all over the world and is recognised as a modern and efficient way of teaching medicine. In most medical schools, these techniques are applied during the pre-clinical phase of the curriculum. We report here our experience with PBL during clerkship rotations. These sessions, called Clinical Reasoning Learning (CRL), have, as a main objective, the organisation...

OBJECTIVE Clinical reasoning concepts can be viewed as descriptions of mental operations or as a thinking frame--a structure to organize and support clinical thinking. This study examined an approach for teaching clinical reasoning as a thinking frame to occupational therapy students. METHOD A quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest design was used with a convenience sample of 10 undergraduate o...