INTRODUCTION Evidence suggests that pre-clerkship courses in clinical skills and clinical reasoning positively impact student performance on the clerkship. Given the increasing emphasis on reducing diagnostic reasoning errors, it is very important to develop this critical area of medical education. An integrated approach between clinical skills and clinical reasoning courses may better predict ...

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OBJECTIVES The development of clinical reasoning and decision-making skills is often limited in medical school curricula. In reality, medical graduates acquire these skills during their first few years of residency. For many, this can be stressful as they may be working under limited supervision as a part of their rotations. METHODS Student-led Grand Rounds was developed to transfer both expl...

OBJECTIVES To identify the factors associated with medical students' clinical reasoning (CR) use and evidence-based medicine (EBM) use in the clinical setting. METHODS Our cross-sectional study surveyed 44 final-year medical students at an emerging academic medical center in Singapore. We queried the students' EBM and CR value and experiences in the classroom and clinical settings. We compare...

background : scientific journals are the most credible and updated information resources for valid information in the various fields of science and technology. the present study investigates the status of iranian scientific journals in disseminating medical information to the world of science. methods : total 163 iranian medical journals accredited by national medical journals commission of ira...

It has come to the attention of IOP Publishing that this article should not have reached publication because a lack consent use data in paper and an undeclared conflict interest by authors affiliated with company, Beijing star medical equipment co., produced product discussed paper. The who are company did provide do claim ownership over it. Consequently, been retracted Publishing. agree retrac...

OBJECTIVE To examine students' attitudes and potential behaviour towards informing a 12-year-old patient of her terminal prognosis in a situation in which her parents do not wish her to be told, as they pass through a modern medical curriculum. DESIGN A cohort study of students entering Glasgow University's new medical curriculum in October 1996. METHODS Students' responses obtained before ...

Defining it Like the fable of the blind men and the elephant, each of whom, feeling a different part of the elephant, described it in very different ways, clinical reasoning is a vast, complex construct that is described and used in different ways by different people. There is no generally accepted definition of clinical reasoning and, indeed, many articles about clinical reasoning never define...

This article highlights some observations made in the American Occupational Therapy Association/American Occupational Therapy Foundation Clinical Reasoning Study, an ethnographic study of 14 occupational therapists working in a large teaching hospital. Concepts and premises that frequently appear in the clinical reasoning in medicine literature are discussed and compared and contrasted to obser...