[Clinical reasoning: practical aspects that allow the facilitation of its development].

Abstract

Clinical reasoning is a competence that the doctor develops and that is essential for his medical practice. Clinical reasoning includes aspects related to observation, critical thinking and communication skills with the patient, since it integrates the previous knowledge that the doctor has about a disease or medical problem with obtaining information from the clinical aspects that the patient provides. and with the mental process of processing the clinical information provided by the patient to the health professional during the interrogation or anamnesis, together with the interpretation of the findings in the physical examination and, where appropriate, of the complementary tests, allowing the elaboration of a set of diagnoses likely for efficient clinical decision making. The present work intends to address the subject in the simplest way possible so that the medical teacher takes it into account and facilitates its development in the doctor in training.