Objectives: Clinical reasoning is at the heart of clinical work; it is affected by different field factors. A clear understanding of the reasoning process could solve practitioners' problems on how to make their underlying theories, assumptions and values more explicit. The aim of this research is to understand how clinical reasoning process is formed in the context of occupational therapists w...

introduction: the importance of medical profession and the role of the physician in society is no secret to anyone. skills and competencies in clinical practice are necessary for the medical profession. in fact, in patient care, doctors require practical skills in addition to scientific knowledge. this study examines the potentials of medical school students in three areas of doing the right th...

Introduction: Diagnosis lies at the heart of general practice.Every day general practitioners (GPs) visit patients with awide variety of complaints and concerns, with often minor butsometimes serious symptoms. General practice has many featureswhich differentiate it from specialty care setting, but during thelast four decades little attention was paid to clinical reasoningin general practice. T...

Clinical assessment is an art which involves systematic, accurate determination of the etiological factors that influences the patient’s symptoms. Since clinical presentation of a symptom can be influenced by multiple contributing factors, evaluating for various etiological factors that influence the symptoms are mandatory for successful treatment. It is a clinician’s most important responsibil...

  Exploration into the concept of "medical expert" dates back to more than 50 years ago, yet yielding three leading theories in the area of clinical reasoning, namely, knowledge structure, hypothetic-deductive, and dual process. Each theory defines “medical expert” in a dissimilar way. Therefore, the methods of assessment through which the experts are identified have been changed during the tim...