title: Teaching clinical thinking.
abstract: Clinical thinking differs from scientific reasoning and educators have observed that some students have difficulty in transferring the one skill to the other. A review of the literature offers few concrete suggestions to teach this process. The author presents a technique that he has found successful with some interns who had problems with this process.
authors.affiliation: College of Optometry, State University of New York, New York.
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Werner
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D009907:Optometry / Q000193:education*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D013850:Thinking