Assessment of diagnostic skills in specialist examinations should include lessons learnt from misdiagnosis.

BACKGROUND:Poor authenticity in high stake clinical exams adversely effects validity. We propose including known misleading diagnostic factors and contextual biases in the assessment of diagnostic skills amongst advanced specialty trainees. We hypothesise that this strategy offers a more realistic a...

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Main Authors: Ehud Zamir, Kaye Atkinson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3797684?pdf=render