Smart strategies for doctors and doctors-in-training: Heuristics in medicine

Medical Education

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 721-728

  Wegwarth, Odette ^a,b   Gaissmaier, Wolfgang ^a,b   Gigerenzer, Gerd ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACROLIDE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR NURSING; CLINICAL MEDICINE; CORONARY CARE UNIT; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC REASONING; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRESCRIPTION; PROBABILITY; RESIDENT; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CORONARY DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACROLIDES; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 70350304261     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2009.03359.x     Document Type: Article

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