title: Twelve tips for teaching expertise in clinical reasoning.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Clinical reasoning is one of the most critical skills to teach to medical learners, yet clinician educators rarely receive adequate training on how to teach this topic.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To enhance clinician educators' ability to teach clinical reasoning.
  
  
  METHODS
  I conducted a review of cognitive, medical decision making, and expertise theory literature to develop practical tips that could be applied to typical teaching encounters.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Through the literature review, twelve tips were designed to provide a blueprint for teaching clinical reasoning on the wards or in the clinics.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Teaching clinical reasoning is important and feasible. Teachers who explicitly teach problem solving and decision making may help learners to improve their diagnostic accuracy and treatment choices.
authors.affiliation: Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA. jrencic@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rencic
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004501:Education, Medical; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D013850:Thinking