Clinical reasoning is the complex thinking and decision-making used to come to a diagnosis and management plan. It’s a core competency of clinical practice - but because it involves many elements and unconscious processes, it’s both difficult to learn and teach.

Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions provides the concepts and frameworks healthcare professionals need to be able to reason effectively, make sound and defensible clinical decisions, and learn from experience as they develop from student to practitioner.

Edited by leading experts in the field from Australia and the US, this fifth edition presents the latest understandings and evidence around clinical reasoning in clinical practice, and how can it be taught and assessed. It’s ideal for both undergraduate and post-graduate health students as well as academic and clinical health educators.

Presents a new understanding of clinical reasoning in the circumstances confronting healthcare systems today
Covers the future of healthcare and social justice
Provides the latest theories on teaching, learning and assessing clinical reasoning - ideal for educators and researchers
Easy to read with figures, tables and chapter summaries
Case studies integrate theory with practice
Examines clinical reasoning as a core competency
Includes team-based care/teaming and the role of shared decision making



New themes
New ways of teaching and assessment
New practical approaches to application of theory and developing a curriculum