Integrating Clinical Reasoning Into Medical Students' First Weeks of Education Improves Understanding of Cranial Nerve Anatomy.

Clinical reasoning is essential to the practice of medicine. Such reasoning involves analytical (deductive) and non-analytical (recall) processes. Non-analytical reasoning is taught extensively in medical schools, and it dominates medical students' time as they review question banks and lecture notes, watch videos online, and memorize flashcards, algorithms, and illness scripts.