Purpose The prevailing paradigms of clinical reasoning conceptualize context either as
noise that masks, or as external factors that influence, the internal cognitive processes …

Objectives Improving diagnosis-related education in the health professions has great
potential to improve the quality and safety of diagnosis in practice. Twelve key diagnostic …

This chapter describes selected social cognitive theories (SCTs) that are applied to
healthcare profession education today. It begins with the historical development and …

A decade ago, diagnostic errors represented a blind spot in health care–a problem that
somehow was overlooked in the early discussions of patient safety [1]. Thankfully, we have …

Background Improving clinical reasoning education has been identified as an important
strategy to reduce diagnostic error—an important cause of adverse patient outcomes …

Internal medicine trainees learn a variety of clinical skills from resident clinical teachers in
the inpatient setting. While diagnostic reasoning (DR) is increasingly emphasized as a core …

From dual process to a family of theories known collectively as situativity, both micro and
macro theories of cognition inform our current understanding of clinical reasoning (CR) and …

Clinical teaching lies at the heart of physicians' training; however, it is often opportunistic,
haphazard, and lacks a theoretical foundation. Medical education is a profession that …

Despite decades of research in understanding and improving clinical reasoning, diagnostic
error continues to be a pernicious and pervasive problem globally [1]. One reason for this …

Objectives Participation in case-based diagnostic reasoning (DR) conferences has
previously been limited to those who can attend in-person. Technological advances have …