Medical thinking What do we know? What should we do?
Steven Schwartz and Timothy Griffin Medical thinking: the psychology of medical judgment and decision making, New York: Springer Verlag, 1986
What do we know? Healthcare professionals Psychologists (cognitive, social, health …) Economists, sociologists … Patients! … and many more
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
Education and training?
Technology?
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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