Dr Husam Al-Anbari

Evaluation of Clinical Reasoning Methods used by Junior Doctors in approaching patients with Leg Pain Dr Husam Al-Anbari

It is agreed that diagnosis is at the heart of medicine. To make a diagnosis, health practitioners need a proper clinical reasoning approach and this is particularly complex in medical problems where chronic pain features. In general practice, junior practitioners face challenges such as time constraints, lack of experience, and dealing with a variety of medical problems. Pain is invisible and presents a challenging clinical reasoning and diagnostic problem. Although there is a large clinical reasoning education literature, less has been written about how to effectively teach clinical reasoning in general practice settings. I tried to explore how junior general practitioners clinically reason when treating patients with leg pain.and to critically analyse, my own method of teaching clinical reasoning especially when I used my own way of clinical thinking which is "Think Anatomy Think Red Flags"