1. Medical thinking What do we know? What should we do?

2. Steven Schwartz and Timothy Griffin Medical thinking: the psychology of medical judgment and decision making, New York: Springer Verlag, 1986

4. What do we know? Healthcare professionals Psychologists (cognitive, social, health …) Economists, sociologists … Patients! … and many more

6. What should we do? All the above plus: Decision analysts Computer scientists, informaticians Legal, ethical and policy professionals Healthcare agencies (e.g. DoH/NHS, NPSA, NICE …) Clinical research funding bodies

7. Education and training?

8. Technology?

9. The questions Day 1 –What do we know about how clinicians think? –And how they – probably all of us – ought to think but often don’t? Day 2 –What new and promising directions are there for understanding medical thinking? –What can we do to remedy known weaknesses? (while respecting the strengths of human expertise)

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