Developing, implementing, and disseminating an adaptive clinical reasoning curriculum for healthcare students and educators Erasmus Project

Project Title

Developing, implementing, and disseminating an adaptive clinical reasoning curriculum for healthcare students and educators

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Knowledge Alliances for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Clinical reasoning is a complex set of abilities healthcare students have to learn during their studies and continue to further develop in the workplace. Clinical reasoning encompasses the application of knowledge to collect and integrate information from various sources to arrive at a diagnosis and management plan for patients in a shared decision-making process. Due to its multifactorial nature and unconscious components it is both, difficult to learn and teach.A lack of clinical reasoning abilities is a primary cause of cognitive errors in patient care and threats to patient safety including unnecessary pain, treatments, or procedures for patients and increasing the costs of healthcare (Graber 2005). In the European Union the number of errors and adverse events in healthcare is estimated at 8-12% (WHO). Despite the importance of clinical reasoning for the workplace of healthcare professionals and patient safety there is still a lack of structured and explicit teaching, learning, and assessment of clinical reasoning in healthcare education (Rencic 2017). Such a training can help to improve patient safety and reduce costs – two priorities of the EU Health policy.Therefore, the aim of this project is to fill this gap and conceptualize, develop, evaluate, and disseminate a clinical reasoning curriculum in healthcare education for students and a train-the-trainer course for educators on how to teach clinical reasoning.Both, the train-the-trainer course and the student curriculum will leverage best practices in instruction and assessment and clinical reasoning theory and combine online and face-to-face teaching components to achieve optimal learning effects. To facilitate dissemination, the curriculum will be adaptable to existing curricula, enabling curriculum managers and educators to adopt it in a step-wise approach and integrate it into existing courses. This process will be supported by publishing guidelines.

Project Website

http://did-act.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 998908 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITAET AUGSBURG & Country: DE

Project Partners

• UNIVERZA V MARIBORU
• OREBRO UNIVERSITY
• DIGITAL EDUCATION HOLDINGS LTD
• UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLONSKI
• UNIVERSITAET BERN
• INSTRUCT GEMEINNUTZIGE GMBH