Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions

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, Fifth Edition 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 todayCovers the future of healthcare and social justiceProvides the latest theories on teaching, learning and assessing clinical reasoning - ideal for educators and researchersEasy to read with figures, tables and chapter summariesCase studies integrate theory with practiceExamines clinical reasoning as a core competencyIncludes team-based care/teaming and the role of shared decision makingNew themesNew ways of teaching and assessmentNew practical approaches to application of theory and developing a curriculum

Contributor: Joy Higgs (Edited by), Gail M. Jensen (Edited by), Stephen Loftus (Edited by), Franziska V. Trede (Edited by), Sandra Grace (Edited by)

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