Education strategies to foster health professional students' clinical reasoning skills

Nursing and Health Sciences

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 244-250

  Rochmawati, Erna ^a   Wiechula, Rick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clinical reasoning skills; Education strategies; Health professional education; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; NURSING EDUCATION; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; REVIEW; TEACHING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, NURSING, GRADUATE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; SCHOOLS, NURSING; TEACHING;

EID: 77954154823     PISSN: 14410745     EISSN: 14422018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2018.2009.00512.x     Document Type: Review

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