Plenary Speaker 2020
What do we know about teaching clinical reasoning?
Dr Nicola Cooper
Thinking and decision making in clinical practice (a.k.a. clinical reasoning) has been the subject of a vast amount of research over the last 40 years. While medical schools and postgraduate training programmes teach knowledge, skills and behaviours required to practice medicine, there is a consensus that explicit 'diagnosis education' is missing from curricula. This is a problem, because diagnostic error is a major patient safety issue, and most diagnostic errors occur due to failure to synthesise all the available information - for various reasons. This plenary will give a brief overview of what we know about teaching clinical reasoning and highlight a few key areas to illustrate how what is taught, how it is taught, and when it is taught can facilitate clinical reasoning development more effectively within existing curricula.
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Dr Nicola Cooper is a Consultant Physician based at the University Hospitals of Derby & Burton NHS Foundation Trust. She is also a Clinical Associate Professor in Medical Education, teaching on the Masters in Medical Education at the University of Nottingham, and is part of a team researching clinical decision making and how best to teach it. Nicola is a training programme director, supervisor, teacher and author. She co-edited the ABC of Clinical Reasoning (Wiley, 2018) and is the chair of the UK Clinical Reasoning in Medical Education group (www.creme.org.ukLink opens in a new window) which has representation from over half of UK medical schools. |