Against the backdrop of English being academic lingua franca, Chinese medical doctors are under tremendous pressure to get their research published in English-medium journals. This paper reports on a multiple-case study doctors’ scholarly publishing English. Drawing multiple types data collected from two at major hospital affiliated with top research-intensive university mainland China, we expl...

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CONTEXT Clinical reasoning plays a major role in the ability of doctors to make diagnoses and decisions. It is considered as the physician's most critical competence, and has been widely studied by physicians, educationalists, psychologists and sociologists. Since the 1970s, many theories about clinical reasoning in medicine have been put forward. PURPOSE This paper aims at exploring a compre...