Overview
- Is an easily accessible overview of the backgrounds and history of clinical reasoning education
- Covers approaches to the assessment of clinical reasoning ability
- Describes a method that can be applied in any medical school
- Aligns with current thinking about student-centered, active, modern medical education
Part of the book series: Innovation and Change in Professional Education (ICPE, volume 15)
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This volume describes and explains the educational method of Case-Based Clinical Reasoning (CBCR) used successfully in medical schools to prepare students to think like doctors before they enter the clinical arena and become engaged in patient care. Although this approach poses the paradoxical problem of a lack of clinical experience that is so essential for building proficiency in clinical reasoning, CBCR is built on the premise that solving clinical problems involves the ability to reason about disease processes. This requires knowledge of anatomy and the working and pathology of organ systems, as well as the ability to regard patient problems as patterns and compare them with instances of illness scripts of patients the clinician has seen in the past and stored in memory. CBCR stimulates the development of early, rudimentary illness scripts through elaboration and systematic discussion of the courses of action from the initial presentation of the patient to the final steps of clinical management.
This volume describes and explains the educational method of Case-Based Clinical Reasoning (CBCR) used successfully in medical schools to prepare students to think like doctors before they enter the clinical arena and become engaged in patient care. Although this approach poses the paradoxical problem of a lack of clinical experience that is so essential for building proficiency in clinical reasoning, CBCR is built on the premise that solving clinical problems involves the ability to reason about disease processes. This requires knowledge of anatomy and the working and pathology of organ systems, as well as the ability to regard patient problems as patterns and compare them with instances of illness scripts of patients the clinician has seen in the past and stored in memory. CBCR stimulates the development of early, rudimentary illness scripts through elaboration and systematic discussion of the courses of action from the initial presentation of the patient to the final steps of clinical management.
The book combines general backgrounds of clinical reasoning education and assessment with a detailed elaboration of the CBCR method for application in any medical curriculum, either as a mandatory or as an elective course. It consists of three parts: a general introduction to clinical reasoning education, application of the CBCR method, and cases that can used by educators to try out this method.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Backgrounds of Educating Preclinical Students in Clinical Reasoning
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The Method of Case-Based Clinical Reasoning Education
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Principles and Practice of Case-based Clinical Reasoning Education
Book Subtitle: A Method for Preclinical Students
Editors: Olle ten Cate, Eugène J.F.M. Custers, Steven J. Durning
Series Title: Innovation and Change in Professional Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64828-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64827-9Published: 17 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87882-9Published: 29 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64828-6Published: 06 November 2017
Series ISSN: 1572-1957
Series E-ISSN: 2542-9957
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 207
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Medical Education, Curriculum Studies, Professional & Vocational Education