Perception of the usability and implementation of a metacognitive mnemonic to check cognitive errors in clinical setting

• Main Authors: Chew, Keng Sheng, Van Merriënboer, Jeroen J.G., Durning, Steven J.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: BMC Publishing 2019
• Subjects: LC Special aspects of education; LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education; R Medicine (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/23466/1/Van%20Merri%C3%ABnboer%2C%20Jeroen%20J.G; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/23466/; https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12909-018-1451-4

Background Establishing a diagnosis is a complex, iterative process involving patient data gathering, integration and interpretation. Premature closure is a fallacious cognitive tendency of closing the diagnostic process before sufficient data have been gathered. A proposed strategy to minimize p...