Teaching Posttraining: Influencing Diagnostic Strategy With Instructions at Test

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 195-209

  Kulatunga Moruzi, Chan ^a   Brooks, Lee R ^a   Norman, Geoffrey R ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analytic processing; Coordination of diagnostic processes; Medical cognition; Medical education; Similarity based processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HUMANS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 80053654577     PISSN: 1076898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024461     Document Type: Article

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