Articles: emergency-medicine.
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To compare the diagnostic processes of experienced emergency physicians with those of novices. ⋯ Expertise in medical decision making is characterized by a moderate initial level of certainty concerning a diagnosis that significantly increases as the experienced clinician follows a flexible strategy of testing to arrive at a final diagnosis.
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Investigative radiology · Sep 1991
In-house testing in emergency radiology. A method for teaching and credentialling radiology residents.
Residents frequently learn emergency radiology simply by on-the-job experience. As an educational tool and as a credentialling vehicle, the authors developed an examination consisting of imaging unknowns as well as written questions. ⋯ They now regard the follow-up conferences as the best-organized instruction in emergency radiology in the training program. The authors' experiences suggest that in-house examinations can serve as an important means for teaching and credentialling in emergency radiology.