Clinical decision-making and adaptive expertise in residency: a think-aloud study.

ABSTRACT: Clinical decision-making (CDM) is the ability to make clinical choices based on the knowledge and information available to the physician. It often refers to individual cognitive processes that becomes more dependent with the acquisition of experience and knowledge. Previous research has used dual-process theory to explain the cognitive processes involved in how physicians acquire experiences that help them develop CDM. However, less is known about how CDM is shaped by the physicians' situated cognition in the clinical environment. This is especially challenging for novice physicians, as they need to be adaptive to compensate for the lack of experience. The adaptive expert framework has been used to explain how novice physicians learn, but it has not yet been explored, how adaptive expertis

SUBMITTER: Gamborg ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9835279 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature