While everyone thinks, not everyone thinks about their thinking. This presentation will provide an overview of key clinical reasoning theory.

This lecture covers:

• The cognitive processes used in clinical reasoning
• The different focus of clinical reasoning in physiotherapy
• Key clinical judgments important to physiotherapy practice
• Common errors in clinical reasoning
• Strategies to minimize errors and improve clinical reasoning

Learning points:

On completion of this presentation along with Psychosocial Focused Reasoning lecture:

1. Participants will increase their understanding of the cognitive processes and essential clinical judgments in clinical reasoning within a biopsychosocial framework.
2. Participants will learn common errors of clinical reasoning.
3. Participants will learn strategies to minimize reasoning errors.
4. Participants will learn strategies to reduce “noise” in physiotherapy judgments and for improving clinical reasoning.