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EXPERT OPINION

Writing Case Reports Can Improve Seven Components in Clinical Reasoning

Toshinori Nishizawa1 Department of General Internal Medicine, St Luke’s International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan;2 Department of Global Health Promotion, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, JapanView further author information
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Kosuke Ishizuka3 Department of General Medicine, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Yuki Otsuka4 Department of General Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, JapanView further author information
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Toshiyuki Nakanishi5 Department of Emergency and General Medicine, Nerima Hikarigaoka Hospital, Tokyo, JapanView further author information
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Akira Kawashima6 Department of General Internal Medicine, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, JapanView further author information
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Taiju Miyagami7 Department of General Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, JapanORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4893-2224View further author information
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Shun Yamashita8 Department of General Medicine, Saga University Hospital, Saga, Japan;9 Education and Research Center for Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Saga, JapanORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5143-8665View further author information
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Pages 195-200 | Received 15 Jan 2024, Accepted 17 Mar 2024, Published online: 22 Mar 2024

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