Improving medical residents’ self-assessment of their diagnostic accuracy: does feedback help?

Josepha Kuhn; Pieter van den Berg; Silvia Mamede; Laura Zwaan; Patrick Bindels; Tamara Van Gog

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Improving medical residents’ self-assessment of their diagnostic accuracy: does feedback help?

February 2, 2022

Kuhn J, van den Berg P, Mamede S, et al. Adv Health Sci Edu. 2022;27(1):189-200.

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Diagnostic calibration is the relationship between individual confidence in diagnostic decision making and diagnostic accuracy, and it can lead to diagnostic error or overtesting. This study investigated whether feedback would improve general-practice residents’ diagnostic calibration on difficult cases. Results did not show that feedback on diagnostic performance improved diagnostic calibration.

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