Two ways to develop your clinical reasoning skills
Develop your reasoning on training cases, then test it on a real clinical case under real clinical time pressure — just like a real appointment, with nobody to tell you what to do or which investigations to complete.
Asking for an investigation such as a radiograph costs you time, exactly as it takes time to expose and develop one in the surgery. You have to assess and report on what comes back, and reason your way to the diagnosis. At the end, you find out whether you got it right.
One skill at a time, worked in stages
Each case builds the skills a sound assessment rests on:
- Asking the right questions
- Matching a provisional diagnosis to the complaint and to what your questions found
- Matching the right investigations to that provisional diagnosis
- Interpreting the results to standard — including reporting the radiographs
- Formulating a diagnosis
- Creating appropriate treatment options and a plan
Worked through blue, orange and green sections covering the main aspects of clinical assessment, as professional standards expect.
A real patient in a real appointment, on a real clock
Cases from practice, with no stages and no prompting. You get the presenting complaint, and everything you ask for costs appointment time — exactly as it does when someone is in the chair.
- StagesNone. You decide what to do and when
- ClockRunning. Requests cost chair time
- FeedbackThe same — plus what actually happened next
- ReviewTalk the case through one-to-one with Dr Magdy
- TutorialGo deeper on the diagnosis and the management
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What will it be — training, or dare to try a real case?
It’s sensitive around there?
A straightforward complaint with a single cause to find. Worked in stages, so you see the sequence expected by professional standards.
- StagesBlue · Orange · Green
- ClockOff
- TimeAbout 10 minutes
One attempt, subscribe for more.
I can’t eat that side?
An emergency appointment. The complaint and nothing else, on a running clock, with one attempt — the way it arrives on a Monday morning.
- StagesNone
- Clock25 minutes
- TimeAbout 15 minutes
One attempt, subscribe for more.
The trials are the simple ones.
Everything past them comes from a working practice — the vague complaints, the misleading findings, the ones where the obvious answer is the wrong one. Each with what happened next, and what it cost.
Work through them at your own pace. Cancel whenever you like.
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