Clinical reasoning is the complex thinking and decision-making used to come to a diagnosis and management plan. It’s a core competency of clinical practice - but because it involves many elements and unconscious processes, it’s both difficult to learn and teach.
Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions provides the concepts and frameworks healthcare professionals need to be able to reason effectively, make sound and defensible clinical decisions, and learn from experience as they develop from student to practitioner.
Edited by leading experts in the field from Australia and the US, this fifth edition presents the latest understandings and evidence around clinical reasoning in clinical practice, and how can it be taught and assessed. It’s ideal for both undergraduate and post-graduate health students as well as academic and clinical health educators.
Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions provides the concepts and frameworks healthcare professionals need to be able to reason effectively, make sound and defensible clinical decisions, and learn from experience as they develop from student to practitioner.
Edited by leading experts in the field from Australia and the US, this fifth edition presents the latest understandings and evidence around clinical reasoning in clinical practice, and how can it be taught and assessed. It’s ideal for both undergraduate and post-graduate health students as well as academic and clinical health educators.
- Presents a new understanding of clinical reasoning in the circumstances confronting healthcare systems today
- Covers the future of healthcare and social justice
- Provides the latest theories on teaching, learning and assessing clinical reasoning - ideal for educators and researchers
- Easy to read with figures, tables and chapter summaries
- Case studies integrate theory with practice
- Examines clinical reasoning as a core competency
- Includes team-based care/teaming and the role of shared decision making
- New themes
- New ways of teaching and assessment
- New practical approaches to application of theory and developing a curriculum
Table of Contents
1 The Future of Healthcare2 Contexts of Clinical Reasoning: Navigating a World of Increasing Complexity
3 Clinical Reasoning: Challenges of Interpretation and Practice in the Current Era
4 Re-interpreting Clinical Reasoning: a Model of Encultured Decision-making Practice Capabilities
5 Multiple Spaces of Engagement and Influence in Clinical Decision Making
6 A Critical Social Sciences Model for Practice
7 The Development of Clinical Reasoning Expertise
8 The Language of Clinical Reasoning
9 Expertise and Clinical Reasoning
10 Empowerment and Clinical Reasoning
11 Changing Demographic and Cultural Dimensions of Populations: Implications for
Healthcare and Decision Making
12 Multiple Contexts of Healthcare
13 Next-generation Clinical Practice Guidelines
14 Evidence-based Practice and Clinical Reasoning: How Are the Two Related?
15 Collaborative Decision Making in Liquid Times
16 A Model for Clinical Ethics Reasoning in Adult and Paediatric Medicine
17 Cultivating Clinical Reasoning: the Need for the Health Humanities
18 Shared Decision Making in Practice
19 Using Telehealth in Clinical Education: Opportunities, Challenges and Considerations
20 Methods in the Study of Clinical Reasoning
21 Clinical Reasoning and Biomedical Knowledge Implications for Teaching
22 Clinical Reasoning in Medicine
23 Clinical Reasoning in Nursing
24 Clinical Reasoning in Physiotherapy
25 Clinical Reasoning in Dentistry
26 Clinical Reasoning in Occupational Therapy
27 Clinical Decision Making in Paramedicine
28 Decision Making and Clinical Reasoning in Optometry
29 Clinical Reasoning in Dietetics
30 Clinical Reasoning in Pharmacy
31 Speech Pathology: Facilitating Clinical Reasoning
32 Clinical Decision Making Across Orthodox and Complementary Medicine Fields
33 Towards a Clinical Education Pedagogy for Developing Clinical Reasoning Capability
34 Leading a Faculty in Implementing Clinical Reasoning
35 Developing a Curriculum on Clinical Reasoning
36 Teaching Clinical Reasoning to Preclinical Medical Students
37 Teaching Clinical Reasoning in Nursing Education
38 Interprofessional Programmes to Develop Clinical Reasoning
39 Teaching Clinical Reasoning in Paramedicine
40 Developing Clinical Reasoning Capability
41 Learning to Communicate Clinical Reasoning
42 Learning to Research Clinical Reasoning
43 Clinical Decision Making, Culture and Health
44 Learning About Factors Influencing Clinical Decision Making
45 Peer Learning to Develop Clinical Reasoning Abilities
46 Assessing Clinical Reasoning in Medicine
47 Clinical Reasoning Education: Looking to the Future