Table 1.

Key contexts and metaskills of clinical reasoning (adapted from Higgs and Jones [24])

Contexts	Practitioner	• Practice knowledge • Practice experience • Values and beliefs • Own professional practice
	Patient	• Values and beliefs • Health and illness experiences • Knowledge and experience of the health discipline • Knowledge and experience of other health disciplines and the health care system
	Community	• Patient’s family and friends • The health discipline • Local and global health systems • Workplace
Metaskills		• Reflexivity • Metacognition • Emotional intelligence • Analytic skills and pattern recognition • Knowledge generation • Practice-model authenticity • Ability to derive knowledge and practice wisdom from reasoning and practice • Use of critical, creative conversation to make decisions