Teaching Clinical Reasoning.

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Teaching Clinical Reasoning.

August 26, 2015

Trowbridge RL Jr, Rencic JJ, Durning SJ, eds. Philadelphia, PA: American College of Physicians; 2015. ISBN: 9781938921056.

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Diagnostic errors are often attributed to clinicians' cognitive biases. This publication provides instructional methods to help educators improve how they teach clinical reasoning.

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