Clinical Reasoning : Practice Makes Perfect

by - April 18, 2017

Clinical reasoning is just one of those things that take time to develop (or so they tell us in OT school). It's not something that we are born with, or go into fieldwork automatically knowing what to do. Clinical reasoning takes hands-on practice and real-life scenarios to play out, and maybe even learning from a few mistakes that have been made along the way. It is defined as "the thought process used to evaluate clients and design/carry out intervention.  Involves thinking and feeling and is used to make decisions in every step of the OT process." This means that everything that I am learning right now, in my classes, assignments, and tests will impact my growing clinical reasoning. I can also begin working these clinical reasoning muscles by looking through our OT lens and begin to ask questions and formulate answers or reasoning. One day this will all come naturally but until then...Practice makes perfect. 

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2 comments

  1. Lauren MurphyApril 24, 2017 at 11:39 AM

    I agree, that clinical reasoning is a skill that is developed slowly as we spend more time learning and working in our field.

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  2. UnknownApril 24, 2017 at 11:48 AM

    Very well said! Can't do fieldwork and learn how to fine tune our clinical reasoning.

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