Developing Clinical Reasoning in Medical Students - A Scoping Review

Clinical reasoning is, perhaps, the most important competence of the physicians’ job, or at least a fundamental aspect of medical practice; thus, teaching clinical reasoning must be in the core of medical curricula. Although developing students’ clinical reasoning skills is an interesting journey, medical educators might also consider this journey as long and frustrating because, apparently, there are no ‘quick fixes’ to teach clinical reasoning. Aware of the need to have an overview of that issue, which may help to guide the specific queries of clinical teachers in order to transform their educational practice, we conducted a scoping review examining the nature, gaps, and extent of research in this field.