Clinical Judgment Process Analysis

Over the last 20 years an increasing development of the understanding of how physicians combine medical knowledge and clinical skills in the clinical judgement process. This process, the creation of a problem representation referring to what the physician thinks occurring with the patient based on the synthesis and integration of two key elements. The first element includes the information collected from the patient through an accurate and the complete medical history. The second element includes a focused physical examination, and the physician’s working medical knowledge.
According to Eric S. Holmboe, Rebecca Lipner, and Ann Greiner, “A physician must accurately and skillfully perform substantial information processing and clinical judgement