How to Detoxify the Clinical Reasoning Process
Lecturer: Lars Avemarie
SUMMARY
The masterclass focuses on enhancing clinical reasoning by addressing cognitive errors and biases that can lead to suboptimal patient care. Lars emphasizes the importance of critical thinking in the clinical setting, drawing parallels between clinical reasoning and critical thinking as subgenres. The masterclass highlights the prevalence of cognitive biases such as confirmation bias, overconfidence, and the blind spot bias, which can affect clinical decisions. Lars stresses the need for clinicians to remain skeptical, question current ideas, and avoid emotional attachments to specific interventions to ensure only high-quality ideas influence their reasoning.
Additionally, Lars Avemarie discusses the inadequacies in pain education among healthcare providers, pointing out that veterinarians receive more hours on pain management than other health professionals. The masterclass encourages clinicians to expand their understanding of pain through evidence-based learning and to challenge historical views that may no longer be optimal. By advocating for continuous scrutiny and critical evaluation of clinical ideas, the masterclass aims to foster better patient outcomes through improved clinical reasoning. Recommended reading materials and resources are provided to further explore critical thinking and clinical reasoning.
LECTURER
Lars is a physiotherapist, writer, internationally acclaimed lecturer, teacher, and personal trainer. He has a unique blend of knowledge about pain research, neuroscience, physiotherapy, rehabilitation, evidence-based medicine, science, and critical thinking. Lars has worked over a decade full-time in the health industry, as both a manager and as an exercise and rehab specialist on a corporate level. He is specialized in training clients with injuries and/or chronic pain.