Learning Clinical Reasoning |  | Authors: Jerome P Kassirer, John B Wong, Richard I Kopelman
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Edition: Second Edition
Pages: 352
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ISBN: 078179515X
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Learning Clinical Reasoning uses a case-based approach to teach students the basics of clinical reasoning. The first section explains the chief components of the clinical reasoning process, such as generating and refining diagnostic hypotheses, using and interpreting diagnostic tests, assembling a working diagnosis, therapeutic decision-making, and examining and applying evidence, and also includes a discussion of cognitive errors. The second section contains 69 cases in which clinicians "think out loud" about diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas, and the authors critique these clinicians' reasoning. This edition has thirty new cases from the New England Journal of Medicine and other sources and expanded discussions of evidence-based medicine, clinical practice guidelines, and cognitive errors. |
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a must read for those who want to become expert clinicians April 8, 2004
Rahul K Patel (Dallas, TX)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book has profoundly influenced my medical training. I have not encountered any other book that attempts to dissect the thought processes of an expert clinician in such a cogent, easy to read format. The first half of the book consists of didactics and background on concepts such as Bayes' theorem, while the second half consists of clinical cases, discussed in similar fashion to the clinical problem solving cases seen in the New England Journal of Medicine. These cases are discussed by a variety of clinicians, from residents to experienced clinicians, with a subsequent review by the authors of the mistakes or strengths of each discussant's diagnostic process.
After reading this book, one can have a sense for what are the strong and weak heuristics used by clinicians in diagnosing a patient.
I feel that every medical school should implement this type of book in its curriculum - as physicians we are almost never given any instruction on how to think like an expert clinician, other than watching by example. This book gives a formal instruction on the matter.
You can't find a better one ! November 6, 1997
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
it's a great book, it has enhaced my understanding, not just of clinical reasoning but as well my understanding of my way of thinking, my understanding of life in general & other peoples way of thinking
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