Collaboration in clinical reasoning for e-health environment

Abstract

The medical education has for objective to help students to learn and reason like doctors. Many faculties of medicine have implemented teaching and learning activities like the clinical reasoning learning (CRL) sessions, for improving students’ clinical reasoning skills. The ideal conditions for the organization of these CRL sessions being difficult to meet, collaborative learning environment of the clinical reasoning at distance is an alternative effective pedagogical which can complement the shortcomings of the classical education. In this paper, we describe a collaborative learning environment, clinical reasoning, in proposing a model which allows you to make explicit an implicit process to help on the one hand, the learners to structure their thinking and approach, to better understand and interpret the elements of a clinical situation and to lead to situations rare. On the other hand, help teachers to better support the clinical reasoning of their trainees.