title: Teaching medical students clinical reasoning skills.
abstract: To be an effective clinician, a physician must excel at clinical problem solving. Nevertheless, few physicians have been specifically taught clinical reasoning skills during their medical training. This paper describes the format used to teach clinical problem solving to second-year medical students at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
authors.affiliation: University of Connecticut School of Medicine, USA.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Windish
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004501:Education, Medical; D006801:Humans; D010808:Physical Examination; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011340:Problem Solving; D018794:Problem-Based Learning; D012381:Role Playing; D013337:Students, Medical; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*