Identification of Health Systems Science in a Problem-Based Learning Clinical Reasoning Exercise

A Rowland-Seymour; D Mann; M K Singh; S L Padrino; A L Wilson-Delfosse

doi:10.1007/s40670-021-01490-w

Identification of Health Systems Science in a Problem-Based Learning Clinical Reasoning Exercise

Med Sci Educ. 2022 Jan 8;32(1):51-55. doi: 10.1007/s40670-021-01490-w. eCollection 2022 Feb.

Authors

A Rowland-Seymour¹, D Mann¹, M K Singh¹, S L Padrino¹, A L Wilson-Delfosse¹

Affiliation

¹ School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH USA.

Abstract

The creation of developmentally appropriate and meaningfully complex clinical reasoning exercises in the pre-clerkship curriculum is a common challenge for many medical schools. We provide an overview of one component of the pre-clerkship clinical reasoning curriculum at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and present evidence that inclusion of Health Systems Science in this exercise facilitates integrated thinking in a Problem-Based Learning curriculum.

Keywords: Clinical reasoning pre-clerkship education; Health Systems Science (HSS); Problem-Based Learning (PBL); Social Determinants of Health (SDH).