Reasoning First

AI can now produce a differential, a SOAP note, or a care plan that sounds confident in seconds, without a learner having done any of the thinking that work used to represent. Reasoning First is a workbook built for exactly that moment: redesigning assignments, rubrics, and feedback so clinical judgment stays visible, teachable, and worthy of trust, even when a tool can generate something that looks like the finished product.

Across fifteen chapters and thirteen appendices, you'll get three fully worked clinical cases with complete reasoning walkthroughs, a six-domain rubric for scoring thinking instead of polish, oral defense formats, integrity and disclosure language you can paste directly into a syllabus, a bias and equity audit, and a dedicated set of blank, print-ready templates so you can put any of it in front of students this week.

This is Book Three in the ReasonFirst series, and the most complete: less about the tool, more about protecting the judgment it's supposed to support. AI drafts. The clinician decides.