Iliad: Moving Medical Decision-Making into New Frontiers

Abstract:

If the essence of clinical practice is a process of sequential problem-solving, whereby a physician works with a patient to formulate a series of decisions about diagnostic treatment, then it would naturally follow that the essence of medical education should evolve around the training of would-be clinicians in the difficult art of diagnostic decisionmaking. Yet this is not often the case.

Key-Words:

Decision Support Systems - Computer-Assisted Diagnosis - Computer-Based Problem Solving - Expert Systems - Computer Simulation

Publication History

Article published online:
17 February 2018

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