Foundational Concepts in Clinical Reasoning
Clinician Mentorship Program
Weekly, Self-Paced Modules:
Module content moves you through the EVOLVE Clinical Reasoning Framework, allowing you to apply new ideas into live discussions and your clinical practice. Modules also introduce the role of clinical reasoning in building expertise, understanding the evidence for clinical application, personal and professional bias in clinical practice, and specific considerations in rural and remote practice.
Full-Text, Downloadable Literature:
Journal Club offers the opportunity to explore literature and assess the quality of evidence and its applicability to your specific practice.
Live, Virtual Q&A’s:
Q&A sessions are offered weekly as live, 1-hour virtual events where you are encouraged to ask questions related to each week’s module.
Case Discussions:
Group Mentorship sessions enable peer-learning and collaborative case discussions in a supportive and open-minded environment as you apply module content into case studies and vignettes.
1:1 Mentorship:
1:1 Mentorship offers you customized support, discussion and ongoing clinical reasoning practice. Sessions not only apply weekly lecture content to real-life scenarios, but also encourage the discussion of complex cases and individual clinical challenges.
Multiple Mentor Option:
In addition to your primary 1:1 Mentor who will guide you through the initial weeks of the program, the Multiple Mentor Option allows you to schedule your 1:1 session with a mentor of your choice. Choose based on different areas of specialty, interest, or practice focus.
The Resource Library
The Resource Library offers access to full-text literature, as well as helpful links and resources for you to apply to your clinical practice and clinical reasoning development.
Canadian-trained FCAMPTs:
Evolve mentorship sessions count towards direct mentorship hours required of Advanced Manual Therapy Programs. Our mentors are Canadian-trained FCAMPTs and registered Mentors with the Orthopaedic Division of the CPA.
Unlimited Access:
Throughout the Program, you’ll have unlimited access to mentors. During regularly scheduled Office Hours you’ll have virtual access, in real-time. Outside of Office Hours, you’ll have full access via email and course discussion forums. To ensure you are supported, mentors commit to 48-hours response time.
Member-Only Opportunities:
Through the Program and beyond, you’ll have continued access to Module Content, Community Discussion Forums, and Member-Only Opportunities.
0.1 Welcome to the Program
0.2 Navigating the course player
0.3 Course outline & deliverables
Course Outline
0.4 Live Event Schedule
0.5 Maximizing the experience
0.6 Expectations & Goal setting
0.7 Final instructions
TASK | Schedule your 1:1 Intake Interview
ACTIVITY | "What is your learning style?"
SHARE | Your Learning Style
ACTIVITY | Warm-Up Case
COMMUNITY | Tell us a bit about you
FEEDBACK | Live Session Summary + Take-aways
RECORDING | Live Session - 30 Sep 2022
POST-MODULE | Survey
TASK | Schedule your 1:1 Mentorship session
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Clinical Reasoning: Models, frameworks and concepts
1.2 - Part 1 | What is Clinical Reasoning?
1.2 - Part 2 | Models + Frameworks
1.2 - Part 3 | Sources of Error
1.2 - Part 4 | Supporting your development
1.3 Exploring the elements of clinical decision making
1.3 - Part 1 | Knowledge + Skills
1.3 - Part 2 | Clinician Experience
1.3 - Part 3 | The Patient Narrative
1.4 Understanding the evidence for clinical application
1.4 - Part 1 | Evidence-Informed Practice
1.4 - Part 2 | Reliability, Validity and Detecting Change
1.4 - Part 3 | Levels of Evidence + Study Design
QUIZ | Applying the evidence to clinical practice
1.5 Advancing our clinical reasoning | The role for deliberate practice in expertise
1.5 - Part 1 | Deliberate Practice
1.5 - Part 2 | Critical Thinking
1.5 - Part 3 | Reflective Practice
1.5 - Part 4 | Mentorship
1.5 - Part 5 | Expertise
ACTIVITY | Components of Clinical Reasoning
JOURNAL CLUB | What makes an expert?
JOURNAL CLUB | Hip MWM and Hip OA - Let's appraise the evidence
RECORDING | Live Q+A - Week 1 (07 Oct 2022)
OPTIONAL | EBP debate at Physiotherapy UK 2015
POST-MODULE 1 | Survey
TASK | Schedule Group Mentorship session
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Patient Interview
2.2 - Part 1 | Subjective History
2.3 Understanding the patient narrative
2.3 - Part 1 | Communication
2.3 - Part 2 | Patient Autonomy
2.3 - Part 3 | Motivational Interviewing
Optional activity: 'A lesson in empathy'
2.4 Goal Setting + Participation
2.4 - Part 1 | ICF Model
2.4 - Part 2 | Rehabilitation Problem Solving Form (RPS-Form)
2.4 - Part 3 | Goal Setting
2.5 Mapping the pain experience
2.5 - Part 1 | Types of pain
2.5 - Part 2 | The radar plot
2.5 - Part 3 | Domains + Pain drivers
2.6 Screening: Flags, contraindications and risk factors - Intro
2.6 - Part 1 | Red Flags
2.6 - Part 2 | Yellow Flags
2.6 - Part 3 | Work considerations
2.6 - Part 4 | Contraindications + Risk factors
CASE | Primary Case Introduction
ACTIVITY | Radar Plot
ACTIVITY | Goal setting
ACTIVITY | Quick Reflection
RECORDING | Group Session - Week 2 (10 Oct 2022)
JOURNAL CLUB | A new clinical model for pain assessment
POST-MODULE 2 | Survey
TASK | Schedule Group Mentorship session
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Developing a clinical hypothesis
3.2 - Part 1 | Biases + Assumptions
3.2 - Part 2 | Generating from the problem list
3.3 Hypothesis categories
3.3 - Part 1 | The person
3.3 - Part 2 | The pathology
3.3 - Part 3 | The plan + prognosis
3.4 Interpreting the information: The role of prediction rules
3.4 - Part 1 | What are Clinical Prediction Rules?
3.4 - Part 2 | Applying CPRs
3.5 When to refer: Identifying flags and utilizing a team-based approach
CASE | Primary Case + Outcome Measures
ACTIVITY | Complete the Anatomy Star
ACTIVITY | Generate a problem list + your hypotheses
JOURNAL CLUB | Evaluating diagnositc accuracy of "red flag" screening questions to inform a diagnostic rule.
JOURNAL CLUB | International Framework for Red Flags for Potential Serious Spinal Pathologies
POST-MODULE 3 | Survey
RECORDING | Live Q+A Session - 21 Oct 2022
TASK | Schedule Group Mentorship session
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Organizing the clinical exam + creating the exam strategy
ACTIVITY | RPS Form
ARTICLE | Applying ICF + RPS Form
4.3 Applying the evidence: Clusters and diagnostic validity
4.3 - Part 1 | Review of key concepts
4.3 - Part 2 | Applying clinical tests
4.3 - Part 3 | Clinical clusters
ACTIVITY | Apply a Cluster to a Clinical Scenario
4.4 Considering the patient: Exam tolerance and adapting strategies
ACTIVITY | Quick reflection
JOURNAL CLUB | Clinical classification in low back pain: best evidence diagnostic rules
RECORDING | Group Session - Week 4 (24 Oct 2022)
POST-MODULE 4 | Survey
RECORDING | Live Q+A Session - 28 Oct 2022
TASK | Schedule your 1:1 Mentorship session
5.1 Introduction
CASE | Primary Case Objective Findings
5.2 Refining the hypothesis
ACTIVITY | Primary hypothesis
5.3 Establish a management plan
5.3 - Part 1 | Using the problem list
5.3 - Part 2 | Plan strategy
ACTIVITY | Choosing outcome measures
JOURNAL CLUB | Best evidence rehabilitation for chronic pain | Part 3: Low Back Pain
5.4 Patient education: Communication + Language
5.4 - Part 1 | Clinician language
5.4 - Part 2 | Communication strategies
5.4 - Part 3 | Communicating Risk
5.5 Patient education: Knowledge Translation
5.5 - Part 1 | Creating a resource
PROJECT | Knowledge Translation + Resource Creation
5.6 Patient education: Patient expectations and satisfaction
JOURNAL CLUB | Patient expectations of benefit from interventions for neck pain
5.7 Patient education: Informed Consent
5.8 Patient education: Mechanisms of manual therapy
5.8 - Part 1 | Mechanisms explained
5.8 - Part 2 | Applying the theory to practice
POST-MODULE 5 | Survey
RECORDING | Live Q+A Session - 04 Nov 2022
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