Learning deliberate reflection in medical diagnosis: does learning-by-teaching help?

ABSTRACT: Deliberate reflection has been found to foster diagnostic accuracy on complex cases or under circumstances that tend to induce cognitive bias. However, it is unclear whether the procedure can also be learned and thereby autonomously applied when diagnosing future cases without instructions to reflect. We investigated whether general practice residents would learn the deliberate reflection procedure through 'learning-by-teaching' and apply it to diagnose new cases. The study was a two-phase experiment. In the learning phase, 56 general-practice residents were randomly assigned to one of two conditions. They either (1) studied examples of deliberate reflection and then explained the procedure to a fictitious peer on video; or (2) solved cases without reflection (control). In the test phase,

SUBMITTER: Kuhn J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9992049 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature