ABC of Clinical Reasoning - 2nd Edition by Nicola Cooper & John Frain (Paperback)

About the Book

"Excellence in clinical practice is not just about good knowledge, skills and behaviours. As fellow author Pat Croskerry points out, how doctors think, reason, and make decisions is arguably their most critical skill. While medical schools and postgraduate training programmes teach and assess the knowledge and skills required to practice as a doctor, few currently offer comprehensive training in clinical reasoning and decision making. This matters because studies show that diagnostic error is common and results in significant harm to patients, and the majority of the root causes of diagnostic error involve errors in clinical reasoning. Clinical reasoning is complex and takes years to learn. Most of the time it is learned implicitly and in an ad hoc fashion. In this book, we have made it explicit, broken down in to its core components. This book is designed to be an introduction for individuals and also an up-to-date resource for teachers and curriculum planners. Each chapter describes a component of clinical reasoning and its applications for clinical practice, teaching and learning. This second edition has been extensively re-written and updated, and key references and further resources have been included for readers who want to explore topics in more detail. Clinical reasoning is relevant to every clinical specialty in every setting, and it is not confined to medical students and doctors - we have written this book with advanced clinical practitioners and other clinicians in mind as well. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed re-writing and editing it"--

Book Synopsis

ABC of Clinical Reasoning

Being a good clinician is not only about knowledge -- how doctors and other healthcare professionals think, reason, and make decisions is arguably their most critical skill. The second edition of the ABC of Clinical Reasoning breaks down clinical reasoning into its core components and explores each of these in more detail, including the applications for clinical practice, teaching, and learning.

Informed by the latest evidence from cognitive psychology, education, and studies of expertise, this edition has been extensively re-written and updated, and covers:

• Key components of clinical reasoning: evidence-based history and examination, choosing and interpreting diagnostic tests, problem identification and management, and shared decision-making
• Key concepts in clinical reasoning, such dual process theories, and script theory
• Situativity and human factors
• Metacognition and cognitive strategies
• Teaching clinical reasoning

From a team of expert authors, the ABC of Clinical Reasoning is essential reading for all students, clinical teachers, curriculum planners and clinicians involved in diagnosis.

About the ABC series

The ABC series has been designed to help you access information quickly and deliver the best patient care, and remains an essential reference tool for GPs, junior doctors, medical students and healthcare professionals.

Now offering over 80 titles, this extensive series provides you with a quick and dependable reference on a range of topics in all the major specialties.

The ABC series is the essential and dependable source of up-to-date information for all practitioners and students in primary healthcare.

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From the Back Cover

ABC of Clinical Reasoning

Being a good clinician is not only about knowledge -- how doctors and other healthcare professionals think, reason, and make decisions is arguably their most critical skill. The second edition of the ABC of Clinical Reasoning breaks down clinical reasoning into its core components and explores each of these in more detail, including the applications for clinical practice, teaching, and learning.

Informed by the latest evidence from cognitive psychology, education, and studies of expertise, this edition has been extensively re-written and updated, and covers:

• Key components of clinical reasoning: evidence-based history and examination, choosing and interpreting diagnostic tests, problem identification and management, and shared decision-making
• Key concepts in clinical reasoning, such dual process theories, and script theory
• Situativity and human factors
• Metacognition and cognitive strategies
• Teaching clinical reasoning

From a team of expert authors, the ABC of Clinical Reasoning is essential reading for all students, clinical teachers, curriculum planners and clinicians involved in diagnosis.

About the ABC series

The ABC series has been designed to help you access information quickly and deliver the best patient care, and remains an essential reference tool for GPs, junior doctors, medical students and healthcare professionals.

Now offering over 80 titles, this extensive series provides you with a quick and dependable reference on a range of topics in all the major specialties.

The ABC series is the essential and dependable source of up-to-date information for all practitioners and students in primary healthcare.

To receive automatic updates on books and journals in your specialty, join our email list. Sign up today at www.wiley.com/email

About the Author

Nicola Cooper is a Consultant Physician and Clinical Associate Professor in Medical Education at the Medical Education Centre, University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.

John Frain is a General Practitioner, Clinical Associate Professor, and Director of Clinical Skills in the Division of Medical Sciences and Graduate Entry Medicine at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.