Effect of Teaching Bayesian Methods Using Learning by Concept vs Learning by Example on Medical Students' Ability to Estimate Probability of a Diagnosis: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Clinicians use probability estimates to make a diagnosis. Teaching students to make more accurate probability estimates could improve the diagnostic process and, ultimately, the quality of medical care.

Objective

To test whether novice clinicians can be taught to make more accurate bayesian revisions of diagnostic probabilities using teaching methods that apply either explicit conceptual instruction or repeated examples.

Design, setting, and participants

A randomized clinical trial of 2 methods for teaching bayesian updating and diagnostic reasoning was performed. A web-based platform was used for consent, randomization, intervention, and testing of the effect of the intervention. Participants included 61 medical students at McMaster University and Eastern

SUBMITTER: Brush JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7027434 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature