title: The effect of short-term workshop on improving clinical reasoning skill of medical students.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Clinical reasoning process leads clinician to get purposeful steps from signs and symptoms toward diagnosis and treatment. This research intends to investigate the effect of teaching clinical reasoning on problem-solving skills of medical students.
  
  
  METHODS
  This research is a semi-experimental study. Nineteen Medical student of the pediatric ward as case group participated in a two-day workshop for training clinical reasoning. Before the workshop, they filled out Diagnostic Thinking Inventory (DTI) questionnaires. Fifteen days after the workshop the DTI questionnaire completed and "key feature" (KF) test and "clinical reasoning problem" (CRP) test was held. 23 Medical student as the control group, without passing the clinical reasoning workshop DTI questionnaire completed, and KF test and CRP test was held.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The average score of the DTI questionnaire in the control group was 162.04 and in the case group before the workshop was 153.26 and after the workshop was 181.68. Compare the average score of the DTI questionnaire before and after the workshop there is a significant difference. The difference between average KF test scores in the control and the case group was not significant but between average CRP test scores was significant.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Clinical reasoning workshop is effectiveness in promoting problem-solving skills of students.
authors: Associate Professor, Amirkabir Hospital, Department of Pediatric Nephrology, School of Medicine, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran. parsayousefichaijan@yahoo.com.
authors: Parsa
authors: P
authors: Yousefichaijan
authors: MD, Amirkabir Hospital, Department of Pediatric, School of Medicine, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran. farshadjafari@yahoo.com.
authors: Farshad
authors: F
authors: Jafari
authors: Assistant Professor, Amirkabir Hospital, Department of Pediatric, School of Medicine, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran. m_khabazi77@yahoo.com.
authors: Manijeh
authors: M
authors: Kahbazi
authors: Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran. rafeie@yahoo.com.
authors: Mohammad
authors: M
authors: Rafiei
authors: MD, Student Research Committee, Emergency Medicine Department, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran. abdolghader.pakniyat@gmail.com.
authors: AbdolGhader
authors: A
authors: Pakniyat
keywords: Clinical reasoning; Pediatric medicine; Problem solving; Student