Evidence based practice (EBP) / Raisonnement clinique 2

lknr1210  2025-2026  Louvain-la-Neuve

Evidence based practice (EBP) / Raisonnement clinique 2
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2.00 credits
15.0 h + 15.0 h
Q2
Language
French
Prerequisites

The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.
Main themes
Clinical reasoning part:
  1. Clinical reasoning processes in physiotherapy (model common to different sectors)
  2. Based on simple clinical vignettes/simulated cases, students will develop their clinical reasoning.
  • Collect essential information in a history
  • Analyze the information collected and generate hypotheses (prognosis, risk factors, limitation of activity and participation, patho-biological mechanisms, etc.)
  • Physical examination
  • Treatment objectives (SMART)
  • Treatment
  • Treatment evaluation
EBP part:
  1. Research question (PICO) on etiological, diagnostic (test/questionnaires/...), therapeutic and prognostic points.
  2. Question the databases (Pubmed, Medline, Embase, etc.)
  3. Validity of articles (bias analysis)
  4. EBP approach to questionnaires and clinical tests:
  5. Use of questionnaires: psychometric qualities/limits.
  6. Use of clinical tests: psychometric qualities
  7. Prioritizing evidence (GRADE, Oxford)
Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

  • Describe the basic principles for constructing and validating questionnaires (2.2)
  • Describe the use and limitations of use of questionnaires (2.2)
  • Describe the basic principles of clinical tests/tools, their validations/uses and psychometric qualities. (2.3)
  • Describe the processes of integration of information received during the history and clinical examination. (2.4)
  • Describe the basic principles for making a prognosis (2.6)
  • Describe the process for setting the stages of care (2.7)
  • Describe the basic principles of continuous assessment and treatment adaptation. (3.2)
  • Describe the steps in formulating a research question (6.2)
  • Explain the tools that make it possible to prioritize evidence (6.3)
Integrative and reflective skills
At the end of this teaching unit, in a typical patient care situation (clinical vignette or simulated case; 11.3), according to an EBP approach (1.1) in physiotherapy, the student is able to:
  • Conduct clinical reasoning and argue decisions (1.2)
  • Describe the basic principles of history taking and the categories of hypotheses allowing it to be interpreted and apply them to clinical vignettes. (2.2)
  • Make a diagnosis based on clinical vignettes (2.4)
  • Identify and describe the clinical, personal and contextual elements that can influence the prognosis, specific to the pathological situation on clinical vignettes (2.6)
  • Formulate treatment goals based on clinical vignettes (2.7)
  • Evaluate/Adapt/Stop an intervention (3.2)
  • Formulate a clear and precise research question (6.2)
  • Query different search bases (6.2)
  • Identify biases in a scientific article using appropriate scales (6.3)
 
Other information
This course is reserved for FSM students. Access is possible to other UCLouvain students on the basis of an application to be submitted to the course coordinator.
Faculty or entity
> FSM


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Learning outcomes
Bachelor in Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation
KINE1BA
2
LFSM1102 AND LFSM1003 AND LFSM1105 AND LKNR1105