Clinical Reasoning & Presentation

Making Expert Thinking Visible

Clinical care depends not only on what clinicians know, but on how they gather information, decide what matters, integrate evidence, and communicate judgment. This section focuses on clinical reasoning as a skill, examining how clinicians move from a defined problem to targeted questions, organize information, synthesize findings into an assessment, and present cases in ways that make their thinking clear and defensible. Rather than teaching diseases or documentation templates, this content uses exemplars to make expert reasoning visible. The goal is to show how experienced clinicians use structure in service of meaning, deciding what to foreground, what to defer, and where to commit.