The Application Effect of the New Structured Clinical Thinking Training Method in the Standardized Training of Surgical Residents

Clinical reasoning ability constitutes a fundamental competency required for medical practitioners. Traditional pedagogical approaches frequently demonstrate limitations in facilitating the rapid, comprehensive, and systematic development of clinical reasoning frameworks. Through the synthesis of extensive teaching experience, the authors have developed a novel structured clinical reasoning training methodology, a clinical reasoning training methodology was developed by constructing a mnemonic framework using the acronym SMILE-SO-DAD-NO. This cognitive scaffolding tool systematically organizes four core clinical components derived from case analysis protocols. This innovative approach demonstrates significant potential in assisting junior surgical residents to efficiently establish systematic clinical reasoning patterns, thereby enhancing training efficacy and supporting the crucial transition from medical student to competent clinician.