What is it about?
Simulation is an effective and efficient teaching technique used in medical education and healthcare practice. Simulation educators use powerful reflective feedback strategies to improve performance of learners. This paper describes the use of such technique and facilitated reflection to bring awareness and mitigating mental models to avoid threats to clinical diagnosis resulting from failure of heuristic clinical decision making.
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Why is it important?
Cognitive contributions to diagnostic errors have been recognized in literature. Reaching the correct diagnosis is the most critical step in the journey of a patient in the healthcare system. Without a correct diagnosis, missed opportunities and delays until effective therapy is provided is a real threat to patient safety. Beyond the scope of knowledge and awareness about the potential of diagnostic errors caused by failures in human cognition, medical educators need to capitalize on the use of powerful experiential teaching techniques for physicians in training.
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Writing this article was of great importance and pleasure working together with co-authors to materialize and disseminate our work.
Ghazwan Altabbaa
University of Calgary
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This page is a summary of: A simulation-based approach to training in heuristic clinical decision-making, Diagnosis, April 2019, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/dx-2018-0084.
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