Situativity: A Family of Social Cognitive Theories for Clinical Reasoning and Error.

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Situativity: A Family of Social Cognitive Theories for Clinical Reasoning and Error.

August 26, 2020

Durning S, Holmboe E, Graber ML, eds. Diagnosis(Berl). 2020;7(3):151-344.

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Challenges to effective clinical reasoning reduce diagnostic accuracy. This special issue provides background for a new approach to clinical reasoning: situativity. The articles explore the four complementary facets of the concept -- situated cognition; distributed cognition; embodied cognition; and ecological psychology – and describes how situativity can enhance diagnosis through a holistic approach to education, assessment, and research.

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