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Welcome To Exercise Your Clinical Reasoning

Be A Better Clinician

Enjoy Your Work More

OUR PRODUCTS


During your career as a health practitioner, it is common to focus your further education on knowledge building related to specific health conditions and the development of clinical skills. While knowledge and skill development are fundamental aspects, they are only part of the progression of your clinical career. 

 

Developing clinical reasoning is another key element of clinical development for any health practitioner. However, it is much less common to spend dedicated time on developing clinical reasoning skills. It is a misconception that experience alone evolves your clinical reasoning. While it is a part of the picture, experience alone has been shown to contribute very little to improving clinical reasoning skills.

 

In our clinical work, we are fortunate to be able to dedicate time to different aspects of clinical reasoning on a regular basis. This has been an incredibly rewarding experience for us, which makes going to work more interesting and fun. We have developed Exercise Your Clinical Reasoning from our experience and learnings from those who guided us, as a platform for other health practitioners to enhance their own clinical reasoning skills. 

Brought to you by Tim and Darren

Tim and Darren are great mates, who have been working together for over a decade to help people become the best clinicians they can. Exercise Your Clinical Reasoning is a continuation of that journey.

Tim Mitchell

Tim is a Specialist Physiotherapist with a clinical focus on the management of complex and chronic injuries and pain disorders. He has broad experience across consultant spinal surgical and chronic pain clinics, orthopaedic clinics, acquired brain injury, rheumatology as well as elite and recreational athletes. He is currently involved in the ongoing care of patients as well as providing second opinions on more complicated cases. He has completed a PhD in the area of low back pain and has a special interest in the translation of logical reasoning into clinical practice. Tim is the lead author on an internationally recognised eBook on musculoskeletal pain management. (https://www.musculoskeletalframework.net/). He provides education on musculoskeletal pain nationally and internationally.

Darren Beales

Darren is a clinician-researcher with a passion for understanding all aspects of pain. As a clinician, Darren is a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist (as awarded by the Australian College of Physiotherapists), the highest formal level of clinical recognition for physiotherapists in Australia. In his clinical role Darren spends a lot of time with people with pain. He interacts extensively with their management team to try and facilitate a consistent understanding and approach to management. As a researcher Darren has a PhD and has authored over 100 publications in high quality peer reviewed journals. His research work is broad, ranging from understanding factors that drive pain through to efforts to enhance the management of pain and facilitate the progression of knowledge into practice.