Clinical Reasoning and Differential Diagnosis: Evaluate Your Skills
by Josep Pastor
January 2020
Clinical Reasoning and Differential Diagnosis: Evaluate Your Skills is an essential veterinary resource designed to strengthen diagnostic thinking and clinical decision-making in real-world practice. This book goes beyond theory, guiding readers through the thought processes required to move from clinical signs to accurate diagnoses.
Built around problem-based and case-driven learning, this book challenges veterinarians and students to actively evaluate data, recognize diagnostic patterns, and construct effective differential diagnosis lists. Each case mirrors real clinical scenarios, encouraging critical thinking rather than memorization.
After explaining how clinical reasoning can be applied to identify a patient’s problems, focus on the most relevant issue, and determine its causes, this book describes complex case studies from a physiological and diagnostic perspective. Readers will be asked to answer a series of questions to assess their knowledge and acquire the necessary skills for properly establishing a diagnosis.
