Clinical reasoning and decision making

Question 1

what is clinical reasoning?

Answer 1

The process by which veterinary surgeons integrate a multitude of clinical and contextual factors to make decisions about the diagnoses, treatment options and prognoses of their patients

Question 2

What methods of clinical reasoning are there?

Answer 2

Type 1 - pattern recognition/illness scripts
Type 2 - Problem based clinical reasoning
Dual-process reasoning (combo of both)

Question 3

Fill in this table comparing type 1 and type 2 reasoning

Answer 3

Question 4

What are the steps in problem-based clinical reasoning?

Answer 4

1.What is the problem?

2.Which body system is involved and how?

3.Where in the body system is the problem located?

4.What is the lesion?

Question 5

What is the difference between a primary and secondary problem?

Answer 5

Primary (structural) problem e.g., infection, neoplasia
Secondary (functional) problem - body system affected by other factors