Background Placebo and nocebo effects embody psychoneurobiological phenomena where
behavioural, neurophysiological, perceptive and cognitive changes occur during the …

Purpose Competency-based medical education (CBME) emphasizes the need for learners
to be central to their own learning and to take an active role in learning. This approach has a …

Cognitive load is a key mediator of cognitive processing that may impact clinical reasoning
performance. The purpose of this study was to gather biologic validity evidence for …

Background Physical therapy, along with most health professions, struggles to describe
clinical reasoning, despite it being a vital skill in effective patient care. This lack of a unified …

Background Clinical reasoning is fundamental to all forms of professional health practice,
however it is also difficult to teach and learn because it is complex, tacit, and effectively …

Deciding on a diagnosis and treatment is essential to the practice of medicine. Developing
competence in these clinical reasoning processes, commonly referred to as diagnostic and …

Aim This paper presents a discussion on the application of a capability framework for
advanced practice nursing standards/competencies. Background There is acceptance that …

Aim: Cognitive load theory (CLT) is of increasing interest to health professions education
researchers. CLT has intuitive applicability to workplace settings, yet how CLT should inform …

Background Although clinical reasoning abilities are important learning outcomes of
physical therapist entry-level education, best practice standards have not been established …

Context specificity, or the variation in a participant's performance from one case, or situation,
to the next, is a recognized problem in medical education. However, studies have not …