Implementation of a Clinical Reasoning Course in the Internal Medicine trimester of the final year of undergraduate medical training and its effect on students' case presentation and differential diagnostic skills

2017/11/15 by Sigrid Harendza, Harendza, Sigrid, Ingo Krenz +7
Medicine · #610 Medical sciences #Clinical Reasoning #Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills #Denkfehler #Differentialdiagnose #Empathy and Medical Education #Fallpräsentation #Innere Medizin #Innovations in Medical Education #Medicine #Unsicherheit #analytical thinking #analytisches Denken #case presentation #clinical reasoning #cognitive errors #differential diagnosis #internal medicine #intuitive thinking #intuitives Denken #uncertainty

paper · doi:10.3205/zma001143

openalex publication_date 2017/11/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22

Abstract

The newly developed and established Clinical Reasoning Course leads to a gain in the desired skills from the students' self-assessment perspective and to a more structured case presentation. To establish better options to exercise clinical reasoning, a longitudinal implementation in the medical curriculum seems to be desirable. Faculty training would be useful to implement the concept as standardized as possible.

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