The aim of the study was to evaluate how Hong Kong Occupational Therapy students
develop their clinical reasoning abilities and progress through the stages of their …

In this rapidly changing health care environment, practitioners and educators need to be
flexible thinkers and skilled in clinical reasoning. Practitioners must use divergent …

Objective. Clinical reasoning concepts can be viewed as descriptions of mental operations
or as a thinking frame—a structure to organize and support clinical thinking. This study …

The purpose of this study was to examine occupational therapy clinical educators'
perceptions of how they develop clinical reasoning skills in their students during Level II …

Problem‐based learning (PBL) in occupational therapy (OT) education has become
increasingly important. However, the efficacy in identifying clinical reasoning skills has not …

Given the current focus on the importance of clinical reasoning in occupational therapy
education, various ways to examine and evaluate clinical reflection and reasoning skills …

This handbook was created in the spring of 1999, during our final year of Occupational
Therapy at the School of Medical Rehabilitation,(University of Manitoba). The handbook was …

Several reasoning styles are used by occupational therapists when they evaluate clients'
problems. This study investigated the influence of the occupational therapy curriculum in …

A mandatory component of the training of occupational therapy assistant (OTA) students is
the development of their clinical reasoning skills. As the demand for OTAs continues to …

Clinical reasoning is defined by Alsop and Ryan (1996, p155) as 'thinking and talking about
the way you work and giving reasons for what you do...[it] forms the basis of all therapeutic …