ABSTRACT VIEW
USE OF THE FIGURE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES TO IMPROVE CLINICAL REASONING IN THE DEGREE IN PHYSIOTHERAPY
R. Martín-San Agustín1, A. Escriche-Escuder1, N. Moreno-Segura1, B. Tronchoni-Crespo1, C. Lopez-Cubas1, M. Sánchez-Barbadora2
1 University of Valencia (SPAIN)
2 Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Europea de Valencia (SPAIN)
Introduction:
Humanism is based on treating people with dignity and respect, adopting relationship models centered on individuality and comprehensive care. In physical therapy degree programs, it is essential that humanistic aspects such as clinical reasoning, communication and critical thinking are taught to improve patient care in the future. In turn, within the literature, we can find stories of patients or health professionals or books close to philosophy or psychology that help us to humanistic learning, with examples of the professional-patient relationship, successes and failures within the praxis, tools for better communication with the patient, improve the use of deductive reasoning or promote critical thinking that facilitates less permeability of the professional or students to possible pseudotherapies. For this reason, this project carried out in the Degree of Physiotherapy of the University of Valencia aims to improve the learning of clinical reasoning, communication and critical thinking through the use of readings, all collected in a book club entitled “Read, grow, help”.
In particular, this communication deals with whether implementing the Book Club in second year through a reading on deductive reasoning improves clinical reasoning skills during the clinical interview, using for this purpose the book “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, by journalist and psychologist Maria Konnikova. In this reading, the writer uses the figure of Sherlock Holmes as a clear example of deductive thinking, making a comparison of Sherlock Holmes' deductive reasoning with Watson's intuitive reasoning. In addition, the book discusses how the mind, reasoning and memory work from the perspective of neuroscience and psychology.

Methodology:
One hundred and fifty second-year students from the University of Valencia’s Degree in Physiotherapy participated in this study. In the subject “Pathology and Therapeutic Approach of the Locomotor Apparatus”. The students had to read the book “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes” and make a video reflecting on the reading and its extrapolation to physical therapy, which they had to upload in reel format to an Instagram account created for that purpose. Afterward, the students completed a survey with 5 questions regarding their perception of the tool, which each question was rated on a 7-point scale, with 1 indicating "totally disagree" and 7 indicating "totally agree".

Results:
133 students filled out the survey. To questions about whether students felt they had learned from this book and that what they learned related to physical therapy, they scored 5.2 and 5.4, respectively. Overall satisfaction was 4.37. Creating a video for Instagram scored the lowest at 2.6.

Conclusions:
According to the results of this study, the learning of deductive reasoning, as explained in the proposed reading, and its extrapolation to clinical reasoning in the learning of this by physiotherapy students can be effective and shows acceptable student satisfaction. Even so, the use of social networking tools such as Instagram is not well received by students.

Keywords: Book club, Sherlock Holmes, physiotherapy, deductive reasoning, clinical reasoning.

Event: EDULEARN25
Track: Discipline-Oriented Sessions
Session: Health Sciences Education
Session type: VIRTUAL