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Research in clinical reasoning: past history and current trends

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Research in clinical reasoning has been conducted for over 30 years. Throughout this time there have been a number of identifiable trends in methodology and theory. PURPOSE: This paper identifies three broad research traditions, ordered chronologically, are: (a) attempts to understand reasoning as a general skill--the "clinical reasoning" process; (b) research based on probes of memory--reasoning related to the amount of knowledge …

Authors

Norman G

Journal

Medical Education, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 418–427

Publisher

Wiley

Publication Date

April 2005

DOI

10.1111/j.1365-2929.2005.02127.x

ISSN

0308-0110