HSC Education Days
Document Type
Poster
Publication Date
2-9-2024
Abstract
Haworth and Conrad (2020) defined quality programs as “those which … contribute to enriching learning experiences for students that positively affect their growth and development”. Self-Taught Objectives for Rehabilitation Management (STORM) sessions provide an enriching learning experience to develop students’ clinical reasoning skills. Gilliland and Wainwright (2020) state that, “physical therapist (PT) educational programs need to prepare students to use integrative and adaptive clinical reasoning skills”. Assessment of these clinical reasoning skills can be challenging particularly in a high-stakes environment, but providing students with opportunities to express themselves in a low-stakes environment helps develop these skills. One method of developing clinical reasoning is to utilize a guided learning template that provides probing questions to steer the learner through the various phases of the clinical reasoning process (Eilts, 2022). Similarly, students are provided with objectives and discussion questions in advance of each STORM session, however, once in the session, these objectives and questions are facilitated in a different sequence using case studies to drive the discussion. Thus, students are responsible for the material but in an adaptive manner as mandated by Gilliland and Wainwright (2020). Dumas et al. discuss relational reasoning, a cognitive strategy that can progress the human mind to identify meaningful patterns within any stream of information (2018). The authors state that relational reasoning strategies are fundamental to human thinking, but they can be developed through education. This is particularly relevant for healthcare providers working with patients with highly variable clinical presentations including neurologic dysfunction. This poster highlights STORM sessions including methods, description, implementation, assessment, and outcomes of this clinical reasoning strategy using spinal cord injury and brain injury examples.
Recommended Citation
Leach, Susan J.. "Facilitation and Assessment of Clinical Reasoning in Entry-level Neurologic Physical Therapy Program via Self-Taught Objectives for Rehabilitation Management (STORM) Sessions." (2024). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hsc_ed_day/179
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Presented at HSC Education Day 2024