Medical students' awareness of overdiagnosis and implications for preventing overdiagnosis.

ABSTRACT: Overdiagnosis is a growing health issue, yet our understanding of medical students' exposure to this concept within medical education is limited. Our aim was to explore students' experience of diagnostic learning to identify how overdiagnosis may be understood by students. During in-person and online semi-structured interviews throughout 2021, we explored the education experience of twelve Western Sydney University medical students in years 3-5. Through inductive thematic analysis we identified four themes. These themes encompassed student commitment to learning about diagnosis, lack of certainty surrounding diagnosis and emotional factors of medical care, overdiagnosis as seen through the lens of high and low-value care during clinical placements and student-identified missed learning opp

SUBMITTER: Colbert L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10921797 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature