Books
Recommended books for teachers and learners.
Teaching Clinical Reasoning provides best practices in teaching diagnostic reasoning to help both teachers and students alike.
This book combines a general background in clinical reasoning education and assessment with a detailed elaboration of the CBCR method for application in any medical curriculum.
Extensively re-written and updated, the ABC of Clinical Reasoning 2e is a good introduction to the topic for students, postgraduates and teachers.
John Brush. The science of the art of medicine: A guide to medical reasoning. Dementi Milestone Publishing, 2015.
Higgs, Jones, Loftus, Christensen [Eds]. Clinical reasoning in the health professions 4th ed. Elsevier, 2018.
Uttam Shiralkar. Surgical metacognition: smarter decision-making for surgeons. Surgical Psychology Publishing, 2023.
Steven McGee. Evidence-based physical diagnosis 5th ed. Elsevier, 2021.
Del Mar, Doust and Glasziou. Clinical thinking: evidence, communication and decision-making. Blackwell-BMJ, 2006.
Daniel Ofri. What doctors feel: how emotions affect the practice of medicine. Beacon Press, 2013.
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Popular book from the physician who inspired the TV show 'House'.
Particularly useful for understanding probability and risk in clinical decision making.
An in depth review of the major issues, in particular focusing on where the diagnostic process fails, and where improvements might be made.
