Doctors and nurses differ in their clinical reasoning approaches, and these differences are not well known. This has impact on interprofessional collaboration, communications about clinical reasoning and educational research on clinical reasoning. Building on our literature review, this debate seeks to enlighten similarities and differences in doctors’ and nurses’ clinical reasoning and aims to clarify the level of this unawareness. The debate issues will be the focus of reasoning (explaining or understanding), professional concepts of diagnosis, goals of reasoning and professional models (illness and wellness). Ideally, all members of interprofessional teams, as well as teachers and researchers should be curious about each other’s reasoning approaches.
