Developing Clinical Reasoning Capabilities

Abstract

This chapter addresses five questions: What is clinical reasoning as a metapractice? What are key elements of context in clinical reasoning and professional decision-making and what impact do they have on these practices? How can we categorize the main clinical reasoning and decision-making approaches? How can the learning and teaching of clinical reasoning and health care decisionmaking be facilitated and pursued? At the end of the chapter readers are invited to reflect on how the contents of the chapter have stimulated thoughts about their

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