Online Course
Decision Making in Clinical Practice
Review the processes you use to improve your clinical reasoning

1-1.5 hours

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Dale Whelehan
Course instructor

Behaviour Scientist, Physiotherapist and CEO of 4 Day Week Global

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Introduction

Most of our time in clinical practice involves thinking and making decisions, but are we making the best decisions for our patients? Clinical reasoning is proposed as the most important skill of any clinician as it underlies all our decisions that guide our diagnoses and patient management. Research in the field of medicine shows that poor clinical decisions account for up to 80,000 deaths annually in hospitalised patients in the USA. In this course, Dale Whelehan will discuss the most commonly used approaches to clinical decision making (CDM) while also identifying the factors that influence it. This will allow you to assess your own approach to CDM and identify the variables that negatively influence the decisions you make.

Aims

This course aims to improve your understanding of the processes underlying clinical decision making and the factors that impede it.

Outline

This course is made up of videos, reading, forum posts and a final quiz. The course content is split into the following sections:

  1. Video
  2. Reading activity
  3. Quiz

Target audience

This course is aimed at Physiotherapy and Physical Therapy clinicians, students and assistants. Other interested professionals such as athletic trainers, occupational therapists, nurses or medical doctors interested in this subject are also invited to participate.

Practicalities

Availability - this course is online and can be completed on your own schedule.

Hours of Learning - No deadlines are applied to this course and it can be started and completed in your own time according to your personal schedule. We expect the required elements to take around 1-1.5 hours depending on your schedule and learning style. Additionally there are many optional resources provided and if you choose to review these the course could take longer to complete.

Types of Activities - Watching videos, reading, a final quiz and participating in an international discussion forum.

Certificates - At the end of the course, when you have completed all of the required elements, you will be able to download a certificate of completion and 1 Plus points will be added to your personalised learning dashboard.

Requirements to complete this course

In order to complete this course and receive a course completion certificate plus CEUs/CCUs/CPD points you will need to:

  1. Respect the Plus Community Culture.
  2. Log all the required learning activities as complete (represented by the orange icons!).
  3. Actively and appropriately participate in the course discussions.
  4. Pass a final quiz with a score of 80% or more.
  5. Complete a course evaluation form.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course you will be able to:

  • define the concept of clinical decision making (CDM)
  • identify the two most commonly used approaches to CDM
  • justify the integration of System 1 and System 2 processes in CDM following the dual processing-theory
  • identify at least 10 factors, both intrinsic and extrinsic, that influence CDM
  • explain the impact of erroneous CDM on health care

Instructor financial and non-financial disclosures

No relevant relationships disclosed by instructor.

Accessibility

For special needs or accommodations please contact us with details of how we can meet your needs.

Featured reviews
It is a short course to improve our cognitive approaches regarding patients and outcomes. The final quiz was challenging and fun!
Rafael Nicolas Koch
Physiotherapist
Australia