Here you will find the process to better your skills, and become a confident clinician.
We all know there is a gap between clinical education and practice.
You have all of this information given to you at accelerated speed in school, then you take a license exam, and suddenly you are thrown in as a new grad clinician. It’s now up to you to apply the knowledge and trainings to real life patients. It feels like school only gets you so far and then drops you off and says, “You’ve got it from here, right?”
It can be a challenge. You ask yourself…
What should I focus on first?
How do I know what I don’t know?
Do I know enough to actually get them better?
The reason for feeling like this is because school can only get you to a certain point in your learning. This is the problem.
The four stages of learning are below.
1. Unconscious Incompetence-You start off being in this stage in school and often again once you start practicing. This is the “You don’t know what you don’t know stage.”
2. Conscious Incompetence-You become aware of your deficiencies in your reasoning and can make a plan to address them.
3. Conscious Competence-You are inefficient in your clinical reasoning process but have emerging skills.
4. Unconscious Competence-This is where your clinical reasoning process turns into a well-oiled machine.
School and clinicals usually get you between Stages 2 and 3 in some clinical areas.
Most people end up feeling overwhelmed and like they are back in Stage 1 once they start practicing on their own. There is so much you still don’t know.
We want to help bridge the gap to work toward Stage 4, Unconscious Competence where you feel confident and have achieved proficiency in your practice.
We accomplish this through focusing on a repeatable, step by step process that you can learn to replicate with all of your patients. This is how you gain confidence over time in your ability to handle whatever type of patient or case comes in the door.
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