Teaching for clinical reasoning – helping students make the conceptual links

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dc.contributor.authorMcMillan, Wendy
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-27T12:11:07Z
dc.date.available2014-05-27T12:11:07Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractINTRODUCTION: The paper provides a theoretical framework for understanding how conceptual learning is achieved, and the way in which conceptual understanding influences clinical reasoning and the ability to transfer theoretical understandings to the clinical contact. From this point of departure, the paper describes teaching strategies that facilitate the kinds of learning that students need in order to develop conceptual understanding and to be able to transfer knowledge from the theoretical to the clinical context. The value of concept mapping as a strategy for assisting the development of conceptual understanding, and for facilitating later transfer, is highlighted. The paper makes a specific contribution to dental education in that it extrapolates understandings about conceptual learning, concept mapping and clinical reasoning from the medical and higher education contexts and facilitates application of these concepts in dental education. However, insights from the paper will have general applicability to other fields of health sciences education since the paper highlights the role that conceptual understanding plays in the transfer of preclinical knowledge to the clinical application context.en_US
dc.description.accreditationWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.identifier.citationMcMillan, Wendy. (2010). Teaching for clinical reasoning – helping students make the conceptual links. Medical Teacher, 32(10): e426-e442en_US
dc.identifier.issn0142-159X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/1084
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.publisherInforma Healthcareen_US
dc.rightsCopyright Informa Healthcare. This is the author's final version and may be freely used provided that the source is acknowledged.
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.3109/01421591003695303
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectConceptual learningen_US
dc.subjectClinical reasoningen_US
dc.titleTeaching for clinical reasoning – helping students make the conceptual linksen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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