Assessment of a Simulated Case-Based Measurement of Physician Diagnostic Performance.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Diagnostic acumen is a fundamental skill in the practice of medicine. Scalable, practical, and objective tools to assess diagnostic performance are lacking.

Objective

To validate a new method of assessing diagnostic performance that uses automated techniques to assess physicians' diagnostic performance on brief, open-ended case simulations.

Design, setting, and participants

Retrospective cohort study of 11 023 unique attempts to solve case simulations on an online software platform, The Human Diagnosis Project (Human Dx). A total of 1738 practicing physicians, residents (internal medicine, family medicine, and emergency medicine), and medical students throughout the United States voluntarily used Human Dx software between January 21, 2016, and January 15, 2

SUBMITTER: Chatterjee S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6484555 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature