Medical education should teach heuristics rather than train them away.

Published in: Medical education (2019)

The most promising way to train (future) physicians and other health professionals in clinical decision making is not to circumvent heuristics or correct deviations from logic and probability theory but to enhance the use of heuristics by improving perspicacity, that is, by tuning the (recognition) processes that underlie the domain-specific adaptive selection of heuristics and management of ensuing errors.

Keyphrases

medical education
decision making
primary care
current status
emergency department
patient safety
mass spectrometry
adverse drug