Clinical Reasoning Workshop
Clinical Reasoning Workshop 1: The Fundamentals of Clinical Reasoning
Description
This first workshop in a three-part series will provide the participants with essential background information based on the literature on clinical reasoning in the context of medical education. By developing a common understanding of key concepts, participants will use cases and tools to practice explicit reasoning in ways that can be used with their learners in various educational settings.
Objectives
By the end of this workshop, participants will:
- Define clinical reasoning
- Differentiate analytic and non-analytic processing, and the context in which each is used
- Implement strategies to guide your learners in organizing their clinical knowledge to develop clinical reasoning
Clinical Reasoning Workshop 2: What’s in a Question? Effective Questioning Techniques to Foster Clinical Reasoning
Description
This second workshop in a three-part series focuses on the use of carefully crafted questioning to foster clinical reasoning skills in their learners. Participants will critique questions from various clinical examples, and will develop questions that may be used in their own educational settings to push learners to think more critically.
Objectives
By the end of this workshop, participants will:
- Describe effective questioning, and how questioning may promote clinical reasoning
- Critique questions used in a variety of clinical teaching settings/contexts
- Create effective questions for fostering clinical reasoning in their learners
Clinical Reasoning Workshop 3: Expanding your Toolkit for Teaching and Assessing Clinical Reasoning
Description
This final workshop in a three-part series focuses on practical tools for teaching and assessment of clinical reasoning in learners. Participants will identify challenges in their own clinical context. A variety of tools will be shared, and participants will have the opportunity to apply these strategies to different case examples. Participants will identify those strategies that they may implement in their own educational context.
Objectives
By the end of this workshop, participants will:
- Identify challenges to teaching clinical reasoning in busy clinical settings, and methods to address these challenges
- Outline several practical education strategies that clinicians can implement to help learners at different levels develop their clinical reasoning skills
Additional workshop information
Target audience
- Faculty who teach undergraduate and/or postgraduate learners in a clinical environment
- Faculty educators who facilitate Discovery Learning or other small group teaching sessions in the MD program
Facilitation
This workshop series was developed and is conducted by Dr. Karen Forbes and Dr. Jessica Foulds.
Dates and registration
Upcoming workshop information and dates can be found within the registration form below.