Adjusting our lens: Can developmental differences in diagnostic reasoning be harnessed to improve health professional and trainee assessment?

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 10 SUPPL. 2, 2011, Pages

  Ilgen, Jonathan S ^a   Bowen, Judith L ^b   Yarris, Lalena M ^c   Fu, Rongwei ^c   Lowe, Robert A ^b,c   Eva, Kevin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 80054122225     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01182.x     Document Type: Article

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