Cognitive bias is increasingly recognised as an important source of medical error, and is
both ubiquitous across clinical practice yet incompletely understood. This increasing …

Context The development of clinical reasoning (CR) in students has traditionally been left to
clinical rotations, which, however, often offer limited practice and suboptimal supervision …

Contemporary theories of clinical reasoning espouse a dual processing model, which
consists of a rapid, intuitive component (Type 1) and a slower, logical and analytical …

Numerous studies have shown that diagnostic failure depends upon a variety of factors.
Psychological factors are fundamental in influencing the cognitive performance of the …

This chapter explores research in medical expertise to examine how it may inform the
understanding of the role of deliberate practice in expertise, and talks about new medical …

In a companion paper, we proposed that cognitive debiasing is a skill essential in
developing sound clinical reasoning to mitigate the incidence of diagnostic failure. We …

This chapter describes 10 selected theoretical approaches to education, exploring their
implications for the practice of medical education. The theoretical approaches are social …

Purpose Reflective writing (RW) curriculum initiatives to promote reflective capacity are
proliferating within medical education. The authors developed a new evaluative tool that can …

Clinical supervision requires that supervisors make decisions about how much
independence to allow their trainees for patient care tasks. The simultaneous goals of …

Optimal medical care is critically dependent on clinicians' skills to make the right diagnosis
and to recommend the most appropriate therapy, and acquiring such reasoning skills is a …