Course: Clinical Reasoning in Teaching

This course will promote the application and teaching of clinical reasoning (CR) concepts and will enable the teaching of the most appropriate approaches in different simulation scenarios and clinical situations for university teaching, recognizing the importance of CR as a tool for making appropriate diagnostic decisions and planning and implementing appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic plans.

General

To teach participants key concepts of clinical reasoning so that they can use these skills for diagnostic and therapeutic management in the courses of Internal Medicine, surgery, gynecology and obstetrics, and pediatrics.

Specifics

• To assess the role of uncertainty in the medical field, and how this reality should be accepted and properly communicated to patients
• Describe and contrast the two types of processes of the dual system of thinking when addressing a clinical problem in different types of diseases.
• Describe the elements of clinical reasoning to obtain relevant, hypothesis-guided information during history and physical examination.,
• Analyze and design an appropriate representation of the problem in order to design an effective diagnostic management approach.
• Recommend and address the appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic management, highlighting the importance of context, knowledge, and experience in decision-making.
• Teaching about the importance of metacognition and deliberate experience as part of clinical reasoning

The course is aimed at residents and/or specialists with an affinity for university teaching, and broadly at all doctors who are interested in deepening their understanding of clinical reasoning and who seek to know, understand, analyze, interpret and question the different approaches that are most appropriate in different simulation scenarios and clinical situations.

Participants who successfully complete the course will have developed professional skills to:

• Key knowledge of clinical reasoning so that they can use these skills for diagnostic and therapeutic management.
• Teaching with broader approaches in simulation courses in medical clinic, surgery, gynecology and obstetrics, and pediatrics