Background: Clinical reasoning is the cornerstone of medical practice. To date, there is no established framework regarding clinical reasoning difficulties, how to identify them, and how to remediate them.
Aim: To identify the most common clinical reasoning difficulties as they present in residents' patient encounters, case summaries, or medical notes.
Problem Being Addressed: As is true in most postgraduate medical education programs, about 10% of the residents in the family medicine residency program at Université de Montréal encounter considerable difficulties in developing their skills.
Objective Of Program: In order to more adequately support the program's teachers in diagnosing these difficulties and in designing, planning, and following up on a remediation strategy, the Residency Program Evaluation Committee devised a tool consisting of a sample remediation plan and a guide to its use.
Program Description: The remediation tool consists of 2 documents.