Evidence based practice (EBP) / Clinical reasoning 3

lknr1308  2025-2026  Louvain-la-Neuve

Evidence based practice (EBP) / Clinical reasoning 3
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3.00 credits
22.5 h + 15.0 h
Q1 and Q2

  This learning unit is not being organized during year 2025-2026.

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

Based on complex clinical vignettes/simulated cases, students will develop their clinical reasoning:
  • Gathering essential information from a medical history
  • Notions of red flags: taking into account the notions of severity/severity/urgency in the choice of professional and timing
  • Refer to the most appropriate health professional
  • Analysing the information gathered and generating hypotheses (prognosis, risk factors
  • limitation of activity and participation, pathobiological mechanisms, etc.)
  • Clinical examination
  • Treatment objectives, in consultation with the patient
  • Treatment
  • Evaluation of treatment
EBP part :
Integrative process of the different stages of EBP reasoning in clinical vignettes
vignettes/ complex simulated cases.
Learning outcomes

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

  • Describe the processes involved in integrating the information received during the history-taking and clinical examination (2.4)
  • Identify articles for the EBP analysis of a real case and justify the choice (6.3)
Integrative and reflective skills
At the end of this teaching unit, in a typical patient management situation (clinical vignettes/simulated simple or complex cases; 11.3, 11.4), using an EBP approach (1.1) in physiotherapy, the student will be able to :
  • Carry out clinical reasoning in clinical vignettes or complex simulated cases and
  • cases and justify each decision (1.2)
  • Plan the clinical examination on the basis of the history and medical records (2.3)
  • Conduct and interpret a structured clinical examination (2.3)
  • Make a clinical and functional diagnosis (2.4)
  • Identify the limits of his/her care when treating a patient (2.5)
  • Identify the signs, symptoms and risk factors requiring referral of the patient
  • (screening) (2.5)
  • Distinguish between the clinical, personal and contextual factors which may influence the
  • prognosis, specific to the pathological situation (2.6)
  • Establish and justify a prognosis on the basis of the pathology and the personal and
  • contextual factors (2.6)
  • Formulate treatment goals on the basis of the prognosis and the patient's expectations (SMART) (2.7)
  • Evaluate/Adapt/Cancel an intervention (3.2)
  • Analyse the EBP aspect of a conference/congress (1.1)
  • Use articles to analyse the EBP aspect of a real case (internship) and adapt your professional
  • professional practice (6.3)
 
Other information
This course is strictly reserved for FSM students. It is not open to other UCLouvain students.
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
3
LKNR1210