Initial diagnostic hypotheses bias analytic information processing in non-visual domains

Medical Education

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 496-502

  McLaughlin, Kevin ^a,c   Heemskerk, Laura ^a   Herman, Robert ^a   Ainslie, Martha ^a   Rikers, Remy M ^b   Schmidt, Henk G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c FOOTHILLS HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

*diagnosis; *internship and residency; Clinical competence *standards; Clinical medicine *education; Decision making; Mental processes; Students, medical *psychology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DYSPNEA; HEADACHE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; THORAX PAIN;

ALBERTA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL MEDICINE; DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; THINKING;

EID: 42149126249     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2007.02994.x     Document Type: Article

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