The aim of the study was to explore how physiotherapy students develop their clinical reasoning skills during clinical placements and what are the facilitators and barriers. This case study employed qualitative methods and semi-structured interviews to understand participants' lived experiences. The study targeted both students and their clinical educators using a purposive sampling method to recruit participants. Nine physiotherapy students and 26 clinical educators participated in this study. The findings showed that the barriers to clinical reasoning include the gaps in knowledge, skills in conducting clinical assessments, identifying patient problems and deciding on the interventions, whereas previous placement experience and supportive strategies for clinical education were useful in facilitating the clinical reasoning.
Ramakrishnan et al. (Sat,) studied this question.