What is it about?
Early medical students are more likely to use their knowledge of disease prototypes rather than prior case examples to perform differential daingosis
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Why is it important?
A deeper understanding of the type of knowledge students use to perform differential diagnosis can inform medical educators in how to better teach to differential diangosis
Perspectives
The more medical educators know about how humans perform differential diagnosis, the less likely diagnostic errors will occur during patient care.
Dr Frank J Papa
University of North Texas Health Science Center
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This page is a summary of: Evidence of the preferential use of disease prototypes over case exemplars among early year one medical students prior to and following diagnostic training, Diagnosis, January 2015, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/dx-2015-0024.
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