Diagnostic Reasoning: Where We've Been, Where We're Going

Teaching and Learning in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages

  Monteiro, Sandra M ^a   Norman, Geoffrey ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

clinical reasoning diagnosis; cognition; dual processing; problem solving

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COGNITION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW; THINKING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COGNITION; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; THINKING;

EID: 84888025992     PISSN: 10401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10401334.2013.842911     Document Type: Review

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