Overconfidence, Time-on-Task, and Medical Errors: Is There a Relationship?
Mohsin Al-MaghrabiSilvia MamedeHenk G SchmidtAamir OmairSami Al-NasserNouf Sulaiman AlharbiMohi Eldin Mohammed Ali MagzoubPublished in: Advances in medical education and practice (2024)
In the literature, high confidence as one of common cognitive biases has a strong association with medical error. Even though the high-confidence group spent somewhat less time on the cases, suggesting potential premature decision-making, we failed to find differences in diagnostic accuracy. It is suggested that overconfidence should be studied as a personality trait rather than as a malleable characteristic.