Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions

Clinical reasoning lies at the core of health care practice and education. Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions, therefore, occupies a central place in the education of health professionals, the enhancement of professional decision making of individuals and groups of practitioners with their clients, and research into optimal practice reasoning.

Section 1 Understanding clinical reasoning

1. Clinical reasoning: Challenges of interpretation and practice in the 21st century
2. Re-interpreting clinical reasoning: A model of encultured decision making practice capabilities
3. Multiple spaces of choice, engagement and influence in clinical decision making
4. Clinical reasoning and models of practice
5. The development of clinical reasoning expertise
6. Expertise and clinical reasoning

Section 2 The changing context of clinical reasoning and practice

7. The context of clinical reasoning across the health professions in the 21st century
8. Changing demographic and cultural dimensions of populations: Implications for healthcare and decision making
9. Clinical thinking, client expectations and patient-centred care
10. Next generation clinical practice guidelines
11. Action and narrative: Two dynamics of clinical reasoning
12. The language of clinical reasoning
13. Evidence-based practice and clinical reasoning: In tension, tandem or two sides of the same coin?
14. Methods in the study of clinical reasoning

Section 3 Collaborative and transdisciplinary reasoning

15. Collaborative decision making in liquid times
16. Ethical reasoning
17. Shared decision making in practice
18. Using decision aids to involve clients in clinical decision making
19. Clinical decision making, social justice and client empowerment
20. Clinical decision making across orthodox and complementary medicine fields

Section 4 Clinical reasoning and the professions

21. Clinical reasoning in medicine
22. Clinical reasoning in nursing
23. Clinical reasoning in physiotherapy
24. Clinical reasoning in dentistry
25. Clinical reasoning in occupational therapy
26. Clinical decision making in emergency medicine
27. Clinical decision making in paramedicine
28. Clinical decision making in optometry
29. Clinical reasoning in dietetics
30. Clinical reasoning in pharmacy

Section 5 Teaching clinical reasoning

31. Pedagogies for teaching and learning clinical reasoning
32. Teaching clinical reasoning in medical education courses
33. Teaching clinical reasoning in nursing education
34. Speech-language pathology students: Learning clinical reasoning
35. Clinical reasoning and biomedical knowledge: Implications for teaching
36. Cultivating a thinking surgeon, using a Clinical Thinking Pathway as a learning and assessment process: ten years on
37. Interprofessional programs to develop clinical reasoning
38. Assessing clinical reasoning

Section 6 Learning clinical reasoning+

39. Learning to communicate clinical reasoning
40. Developing clinical reasoning capability
41. Remediating learning and performance of clinical reasoning in medicine
42. Learning about factors influencing clinical decision making
43. Learning reasoning using simulation
44. Learning to use evidence to support decision making
45. Learning to research clinical reasoning
46. Learning clinical reasoning across cultural contexts
47. Peer learning to develop clinical reasoning abilities