NBHC Care Experience
October 10, 2017
The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) and leaders in medical education have developed tools to help physicians improve their diagnostic and clinical reasoning skills. The Assessment of Reasoning Tool (ART) is described as a "straightforward" evaluation tool to support educators in assessing a learner's clinical reasoning skills during patient presentations. SIDM says the tool recognizes that the diagnostic process is multifactorial and requires clinicians to develop specific skills that support accurate diagnosis, including:
- Collecting and reporting history and examination data in a hypothesis-directed manner;
- Articulating a complete problem representation;
- Articulating a prioritized differential diagnosis; and
- Directing evaluation/treatment toward high-priority diagnoses.
ART is accompanied by five faculty development videos that focus on:
- Understanding the diagnostic process,
- Analyzing cognitive and systems contributions to diagnostic errors,
- Partnering with patients and families in the diagnostic decision-making process,
- Physician and patient factors in diagnostic decision-making, and
- Recognizing and responding to diagnostic errors.
Related News:
New Tools Aim to Help Develop and Enhance Diagnostic Skills - Medscape (reg. req.)