By Joy Higgs AM PhD MHPEd BSc PFHEA, Gail M. Jensen PhD PT FAPTA, Stephen Loftus PhD MSc BDS, Franziska V. Trede PhD MHPEd Diploma of Physiotherapy, Sandra Grace PhD MSc DipEd BA

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