Clinical Reasoning is the cornerstone of clinical practice.

Foundational Concepts in Clinical Reasoning - Independent Study works through a series of lectures, modules, cases, and real-time mentorship sessions to inform and develop the clinical reasoning process. Participants work independently, through a pre-recorded lecture series, as well as collaboratively, through an active and growing community forum. Mentorship sessions, offered one-on-one, integrate weekly lecture content and apply to real-life scenarios, complex cases, and clinical challenges.
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A word from Meghan Curle, Evolve Founder + Mentor

What to expect from our 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.

  • Community Forum Q&A’s:
    Ask questions related to each week’s module and interact with mentors, instructors and other community members.

  • Case Discussions:

    Experience ongoing 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. 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.

Course curriculum

    1. 0.1 Welcome to the Program

    2. 0.2 Navigating the course player

    3. 0.3 Course outline & deliverables

    4. Course Outline

    5. 0.4 Live Event Schedule

    6. 0.5 Maximizing the experience

    7. 0.6 Expectations & Goal setting

    8. 0.7 Final instructions

    9. TASK | Schedule your 1:1 Intake Interview

    10. ACTIVITY | "What is your learning style?"

    11. SHARE | Your Learning Style

    12. ACTIVITY | Warm-Up Case

    13. COMMUNITY | Tell us a bit about you

    14. TASK | Schedule your 1:1 Mentorship sessions

    15. POST-MODULE | Survey

    1. TASK | Schedule your 1:1 Mentorship sessions

    2. 1.1 Introduction

    3. 1.2 Clinical Reasoning: Models, frameworks and concepts

    4. 1.2 - Part 1 | What is Clinical Reasoning?

    5. 1.2 - Part 2 | Models + Frameworks

    6. 1.2 - Part 3 | Sources of Error

    7. 1.2 - Part 4 | Supporting your development

    8. 1.3 Exploring the elements of clinical decision making

    9. 1.3 - Part 1 | Knowledge + Skills

    10. 1.3 - Part 2 | Clinician Experience

    11. 1.3 - Part 3 | The Patient Narrative

    12. 1.4 Understanding the evidence for clinical application

    13. 1.4 - Part 1 | Evidence-Informed Practice

    14. 1.4 - Part 2 | Reliability, Validity and Detecting Change

    15. 1.4 - Part 3 | Levels of Evidence + Study Design

    16. QUIZ | Applying the evidence to clinical practice

    17. 1.5 Advancing our clinical reasoning | The role for deliberate practice in expertise

    18. 1.5 - Part 1 | Deliberate Practice

    19. 1.5 - Part 2 | Critical Thinking

    20. 1.5 - Part 3 | Reflective Practice

    21. 1.5 - Part 4 | Mentorship

    22. 1.5 - Part 5 | Expertise

    23. ACTIVITY | Components of Clinical Reasoning

    24. JOURNAL CLUB | What makes an expert?

    25. JOURNAL CLUB | Hip MWM and Hip OA - Let's appraise the evidence

    26. OPTIONAL | EBP debate at Physiotherapy UK 2015

    27. POST-MODULE 1 | Survey

    1. TASK | Schedule your 1:1 Mentorship session

    2. 2.1 Introduction

    3. 2.2 The Patient Interview

    4. 2.2 - Part 1 | Subjective History

    5. 2.3 Understanding the patient narrative

    6. 2.3 - Part 1 | Communication

    7. 2.3 - Part 2 | Patient Autonomy

    8. 2.3 - Part 3 | Motivational Interviewing

    9. Optional activity: 'A lesson in empathy'

    10. 2.4 Goal Setting + Participation

    11. 2.4 - Part 1 | ICF Model

    12. 2.4 - Part 2 | Rehabilitation Problem Solving Form (RPS-Form)

    13. 2.4 - Part 3 | Goal Setting

    14. 2.5 Mapping the pain experience

    15. 2.5 - Part 1 | Types of pain

    16. 2.5 - Part 2 | The radar plot

    17. 2.5 - Part 3 | Domains + Pain drivers

    18. 2.6 Screening: Flags, contraindications and risk factors - Intro

    19. 2.6 - Part 1 | Red Flags

    20. 2.6 - Part 2 | Yellow Flags

    21. 2.6 - Part 3 | Work considerations

    22. 2.6 - Part 4 | Contraindications + Risk factors

    23. CASE | Primary Case Introduction

    24. ACTIVITY | Radar Plot

    25. ACTIVITY | Goal setting

    26. ACTIVITY | Quick Reflection

    27. JOURNAL CLUB | A new clinical model for pain assessment

    28. POST-MODULE 2 | Survey

    1. TASK | Schedule your 1:1 Mentorship session

    2. 3.1 Introduction

    3. 3.2 Developing a clinical hypothesis

    4. 3.2 - Part 1 | Biases + Assumptions

    5. 3.2 - Part 2 | Generating from the problem list

    6. 3.3 Hypothesis categories

    7. 3.3 - Part 1 | The person

    8. 3.3 - Part 2 | The pathology

    9. 3.3 - Part 3 | The plan + prognosis

    10. 3.4 Interpreting the information: The role of prediction rules

    11. 3.4 - Part 1 | What are Clinical Prediction Rules?

    12. 3.4 - Part 2 | Applying CPRs

    13. 3.5 When to refer: Identifying flags and utilizing a team-based approach

    14. CASE | Primary Case + Outcome Measures

    15. ACTIVITY | Complete the Anatomy Star

    16. ACTIVITY | Generate a problem list + your hypotheses

    17. JOURNAL CLUB | Evaluating diagnositc accuracy of "red flag" screening questions to inform a diagnostic rule.

    18. JOURNAL CLUB | International Framework for Red Flags for Potential Serious Spinal Pathologies

    19. POST-MODULE 3 | Survey

    1. TASK | Schedule your 1:1 Mentorship session

    2. 4.1 Introduction

    3. 4.2 Organizing the clinical exam + creating the exam strategy

    4. ACTIVITY | RPS Form

    5. ARTICLE | Applying ICF + RPS Form

    6. 4.3 Applying the evidence: Clusters and diagnostic validity

    7. 4.3 - Part 1 | Review of key concepts

    8. 4.3 - Part 2 | Applying clinical tests

    9. 4.3 - Part 3 | Clinical clusters

    10. ACTIVITY | Apply a Cluster to a Clinical Scenario

    11. 4.4 Considering the patient: Exam tolerance and adapting strategies

    12. ACTIVITY | Quick reflection

    13. JOURNAL CLUB | Clinical classification in low back pain: best evidence diagnostic rules

    14. POST-MODULE 4 | Survey

    1. TASK | Schedule your 1:1 Mentorship session

    2. 5.1 Introduction

    3. CASE | Primary Case Objective Findings

    4. 5.2 Refining the hypothesis

    5. ACTIVITY | Primary hypothesis

    6. 5.3 Establish a management plan

    7. 5.3 - Part 1 | Using the problem list

    8. 5.3 - Part 2 | Plan strategy

    9. ACTIVITY | Choosing outcome measures

    10. JOURNAL CLUB | Best evidence rehabilitation for chronic pain | Part 3: Low Back Pain

    11. 5.4 Patient education: Communication + Language

    12. 5.4 - Part 1 | Clinician language

    13. 5.4 - Part 2 | Communication strategies

    14. 5.4 - Part 3 | Communicating Risk

    15. 5.5 Patient education: Knowledge Translation

    16. 5.5 - Part 1 | Creating a resource

    17. PROJECT | Knowledge Translation + Resource Creation

    18. 5.6 Patient education: Patient expectations and satisfaction

    19. JOURNAL CLUB | Patient expectations of benefit from interventions for neck pain

    20. 5.7 Patient education: Informed Consent

    21. 5.8 Patient education: Mechanisms of manual therapy

    22. 5.8 - Part 1 | Mechanisms explained

    23. 5.8 - Part 2 | Applying the theory to practice

    24. POST-MODULE 5 | Survey

Foundational Concepts in Clinical Reasoning | Independent Study

  • 7.5 hours of video content

Foundational Concepts in Clinical Reasoning - Independent Study

Date: Begins on enrollment
Duration: 8 weeks
Cost: $1425*
Location: Online

Progress independently through Evolve's Foundational Concepts Program on your own schedule. Experience weekly live mentorship and direct access to course instructors while progressing through course content and engaging in case-based activities. Module content is released weekly based on your enrollment. This program was designed to allow clinicians to gain access to the program outside of cohort offerings while continuing to ensure the same focused and collaborative learning experience.

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Foundational Concepts in Clinical Reasoning - Winter 2023 Cohort

Date: 17 FEB - 14 APR 2023
Duration: 8 weeks
Cost: $1425*
Location: Online


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Date: 30 Sept - 25 Nov 2022
Duration: 8 weeks
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KEY DATES + DETAILS:

  • Module content released each FRIDAY at 6am PST
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  • Mentorship session availability offered on: Monday: 2-5pm PST, Tuesday 9-11am PST, Wednesday 3-5pm PST

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