Application of the CITE Mode of Ward Rounds in Teaching Critical Clinical Thinking

Abstract

With the rapid development of critical care medicine (CCM), the particularity and professionalism of critical clinical thinking has become increasingly apparent. To grasp critical clinical thinking quickly and accurately is a key and difficult point in clinical training for young doctors. The CCM team of Peking Union Medical College Hospital summarized the CITE(Case characteristic, Index, Target, Execute) mode of ward rounds. This mode integrated the training of critical clinical thinking into daily bedside rounds and tried to rapidly develop the ability of critical clinical thinking of the young doctors and to achieve continuous and high-quality medical services.

Keywords

• critical care medicine
• critical clinical thinking
• medical education