Thinking Out Loud: Teaching and Role-Modelling Clinical Reasoning

Thinking Out Loud: Teaching and Role-Modelling Clinical Reasoning runs at the Ross Lucas Medical Sciences Building on Wednesday 18 November, starting at 14:30. It's an education session for staff who facilitate small-group clinical cases and for those who provide clinical teaching or supervision. The whole thing is free to attend.

The session is part of the University of Lincoln's new independent LMS medical curriculum, which builds clinical reasoning into the programme across all five years. The focus here is on how to actually teach it. By the end, you should be able to explain why clinical reasoning is so hard to teach explicitly, and you'll walk away with at least two structured techniques to make students' reasoning visible — illness script formation and the clinical reasoning cycle are two of them. You'll also get to grips with the Lincoln Medical School Clinical Reasoning Toolkit.

Beyond the tools, there's a practical side to the role-modelling part: how to consciously show your own reasoning in everyday teaching, including how to handle uncertainty and error when you're working with students. It's less about the theory and more about the day-to-day of teaching clinical cases.

It's at the Ross Lucas Medical Sciences Building on Brayford Pool, Lincoln, LN6 7FS, on Wednesday 18 November from 14:30. Entry is free.