Overview
Enhancing your skills and methodologies in clinical teaching is essential for improving learners’ competence and performance. By participating in this professional development opportunity, you will gain access to research-based and practice methods designed to enhance your clinical reasoning skills. Kirk Bronander MD, an experienced clinical educator, will share his extensive knowledge on this subject. By taking this course, you will be better prepared to improve your clinical reasoning skills and, in turn, be able to share these insights with the UNR Med students you work with during their clerkships. This will not only enhance your teaching effectiveness but also contribute to the success and competence of the next generation medical professionals.
This session topic is part of a clinical teaching professional development series presented by the Office of Community Faculty. To view all session topics in this series, please click on Office of Community Faculty Program Series. These courses are FREE with an active Community or Joint Faculty appointment at UNR Med. Please email adamwilkinson@med.unr.edu if you have any questions.
Learning Objectives
Following participation in this course, participants should be able to:
- Define an illness script and describe a common illness script in their everyday practice
- Identify when they are using intuitive reasoning and when analytical reasoning is being utilized to make a diagnosis
- Apply a problem representation to a clinical case and describe its utility in clinical reasoning