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ERIC Number: EJ416733
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1990
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-2577
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Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks: Using Cognitive Feedback to Improve Physicians' Diagnostic Judgments on Simulated Cases.
Wigton, Robert S.; And Others
Academic Medicine, v65 n9 suppl pS5-6 Sep 1990
An educational intervention was effective in improving the judgment of experienced student-health physicians (N=11) in predicting positive culture in simulated patients with pharyngitis. The intervention was three parts: an initial one-hour lecture; three sessions with computer-based cognitive feedback; and monthly reports of the percentage of positive throat cultures. (MLW)
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Decision Making, Feedback, Higher Education, Intervention, Medical Education, Medical Schools, Physicians, Program Descriptions, Simulation
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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