Teaching the diagnostic process as a model to improve medical education. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Teaching the diagnostic process as a model to improve medical education. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published December 2016

Teaching the diagnostic process as a model to improve medical education.

Sklar DP. Acad Med. 2017;92:1-4.

Medical education has evolved to teach learners about improving patient safety. This commentary explores how relationships between patients, families, and physicians could help reduce diagnostic error and discusses the importance of providing education about clinical decision-making.

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