Clinical Reasoning in CanMEDS 2025

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Meredith Young , McGill University

PhD

Associate Professor and Associate Director: Research at the Institute of Health Sciences Education, McGill University

Adam Szulewski, Queen's University

MD, FRCP, MHPE, PhD

Queen's University

Robert Anderson , Northern Ontario School of Medicine

MD, FRCPC

Carlos Gomez-Garibello, McGill University

PhD

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Young M, Szulewski A, Anderson R, Gomez-Garibello C, Thoma B, Monteiro S. Clinical Reasoning in CanMEDS 2025. Can. Med. Ed. J [Internet]. 2023 Mar. 21 [cited 2024 Nov. 24];14(1):58-62. Available from: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/cmej/article/view/75843

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