The clinical reasoning process is a key element in a physician’s daily practice. Clinical reasoning learning (CRL) is a student-centered educational tool designed to promote early learning of clinical reasoning through expert-assessed simulation of a clinical environment. Our aim was to evaluate third year medical students’ satisfaction with the CRL sessions in general surgery and to show the imp…
Step 2 prep is often treated as a separate task from clerkships, something to fit in around rotations rather than something rotations feed into. But the two are more connected than they might seem. Clinical reasoning, the process of gathering information, narrowing a differential, and choosing a next step, is tested directly on Step 2 and practiced daily on the wards. Studying with that connectio…
