CASE WRITING AND ITS USE IN MEDICAL EDUCATION

By its nature, the medical problems are ambiguous and encountered in different ways. For physicians, their solution is a complex phenomenon and physicians reach diagnosis and treatment decisions by using different reasoning methods. Case-based reasoning is one of these, and is attracting attention as an important area of today's medical education. Clinical reasoning researches of Barrows and Tamblyn emphasized that students were more eager to learn and learn better when solving problems of patients. That evidence has placed case-based learning at the center of medical education activities