Bartlett, M, Gay, SP, List, PA and McKinley, RK (2015) Teaching and learning clinical reasoning: tutors' perceptions of change in their own clinical practice. Education for Primary Care, 26 (4). 248 -254. ISSN 1475-990X

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Clinical reasoning is an important skill for all clinicians and historically has rarely been formally taught either at undergraduate or postgraduate level. Clinical reasoning is taught as a formal course in the fourth year of the undergraduate programme at Keele School of Medicine by tutors who are all practicing general practitioners. AIM: We aimed to explore the tutors' perceptions about how teaching on the course has impacted on their own consultation skills. DESIGN AND SETTING: All 11 course tutors who had taught on the course for at least one full academic year were invited to take part in recorded individual semi-structured interviews with an experienced, non-clinical, qualitative researcher. The data were analysed using qualitative methods. RESULTS: Eleven tutors participated, with a range of 7 to 32 years of clinical experience. They reported better decision-making, greater use of metacognition, more self-awareness, more reflective practice, more confidence and greater job satisfaction. They also reported positive impacts on their own knowledge and learning, and assumed concomitant benefits for their patients. CONCLUSION: All clinicians in this group perceived benefits on their consultation skills as a result of teaching clinical reasoning. There is a need to provide education, training and continuing professional development in cognitive consultation skills to students, trainees and established practitioners.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Education for Primary Care on 7 October 2015 available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14739879.2015.11494350
Uncontrolled Keywords: continuing professional development, decision-making, general practice
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General) > R735 Medical education. Medical schools. Research
Divisions: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Primary Care Health Sciences
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Depositing User: Symplectic
Date Deposited: 07 Jun 2016 11:10
Last Modified: 12 Jan 2017 11:13
URI: https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/1813

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