Figure 2.

Practical use of types of clinical reasoning in the management of clinical encounters using the analytical model of clinical reasoning applicable to veterinary clinical encounters. After each step in the clinical reasoning (shown by the lighter rectangles), the learner should seek the appropriate mental representation (e.g., illness scripts) to match with the presented problem/syndrome (seeking a diagnosis or an appropriate management strategy). If the diagnosis is reached, the next stage of the clinical reasoning should be management, as mutually agreed with the client. Reflection and self-monitoring should be used after each decision-making step that may result in a change to the accepted decision (self-monitoring).