Competence and Excellence in Medical Practice
Inquisitiveness can lead one into dangerous situations Whilst curiosity is not in truth a cognitive bias, I though it worth considering as part of these series of blogs exploring clinical reasoning and cognitive biases. Curiosity is an essential trait in medical practitioners and health professionals more broadly. Dyche and Epstein (2011) discuss the importance of curiosity to […]
How “curiosity can kill the cat” Read More »
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Family feud, metacognition, mud and the KFP Read More »
And the cognitive bias of the week is…..ZEBRA RETREAT! In my previous blogs I’ve been exploring the importance of generating a broad differential list early in the diagnostic process. This is particularly important to mitigate against biases such as premature closure and affective bias (‘gut-feel’). If we have generated a good differential list, it should
Retreat! It’s a zebra… Read More »
It’s day 5 of the Boxing Day test. You have great tickets and are catching up with some old mates. You’ve been to the MCG many times before but not in the last few years. You wake up late – too late to catch the train, so you jump in your car. On autopilot you
Clinical reasoning and the perfect CAATCHHH Read More »
Welcome to this week’s clinical reasoning bias – “The Bandwagon effect”: “the tendency to do (or believe) things because many other people do (or believe) the same” Now I don’t even need to try and think of a clinical case to demonstrate this, as there as so many examples in the medical literature, but perhaps
Jumping on the Bandwagon Read More »
As a senior GP registrar about to sit exams I felt that I was brimming with knowledge. So why then was I still second guessing myself about certain patients at the end of the day? I spoke with my learned supervisor about this – he’s been in the game a long time and has a much
How much risk do you tolerate? Read More »
AKT and KFP study plan= Last five years of Check, AFP and Murtagh read back to back three times. NO! NO! NO! Unfortunately I hear this preparation method all the time. The regurgitation of clinical knowledge is unfortunately not the key to competence as a GP – if this was so, then a robot could
Flicking the switch on the AKT & KFP Read More »