Cognitive Debiasing Strategies: A Faculty Development Workshop for Clinical Teachers in Emergency Medicine

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Michelle DanielSally A Santen

Abstract

Medical decision-making is a cornerstone of clinical care and a key contributor to diagnostic accuracy. Medical decision-making occurs via two primary pathways: System 1, pattern recognition, is fast, intuitive, and heuristically driven and occurs largely unconsciously. System 2, analytic thinking, is slow, deliberate, and under conscious control. Biases are systematic errors that can impact reasoning via either pathway but predominantly affect decisions made by pattern recognition. Debiasing strategies involve the deliberate switching from pattern recognition to analytic thinking triggered by a stimulus. This resource describes a faculty development workshop designed to train emergency medicine educators about common biases and debiasing strategies, to improve teaching of diagnostic reasoning to trainees. This workshop was implemented at the 2017 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting. The workshop consisted of a brief didactic, followed by small-group case-based learning. A retrospective survey and qualitative evaluation were administered to attendees. The participants' self-assessment showed significant improvements (p < .001) in their abilities to recognize how pattern recognition can lead to bias, identify ...Continue Reading

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Nov 19, 2020·The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine·Sarah HartiganRobin R Hemphill
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