Date/Time
Date(s) - May 23, 2023
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Location
David Braley Health Sciences Centre (Room 2035)

Register here: https://bit.ly/SchmidtLectureMay2023

Room for improvement in the teaching of clinical reasoning?

Dr. Henk Schmidt (Erasmus University)

Developing students’ clinical reasoning skills has traditionally been left to clinical clerkships. These, however, often offer limited practice and suboptimal supervision. Medical schools begin to address these limitations by organizing clinical reasoning “courses” in the preclinical years. The purpose of this talk is to briefly review the variety of approaches employed for teaching clinical reasoning and to present some ideas to improve these practices. A number of studies conducted to test these ideas will be discussed.

Henk Schmidt is a professor of psychology at Erasmus University’s faculty of social sciences and founding dean of its problem-based psychology curriculum. Between 2009 and 2013, he was the Vice-Chancellor (“Rector Magnificus”) of Erasmus University. His research areas of interest are learning and memory, and he has published on problem-based learning, long-term memory, and the development of expertise in medicine. He has published more than 400 articles in refereed journals, chapters in books, and books; alone or together with his 50+ PhD.-students. Dr. Schmidt has been recognized for his achievements in education research and scholarship, including an international medical education research prize at Karolinska Institutet.