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Illness Category Learning

Illness Category Learning is a cognitive framework within clinical reasoning that organizes medical knowledge by structuring disease representations according to categorical taxonomies, distinguishing it from other knowledge organization methods by emphasizing hierarchical classification based on shared pathophysiological, epidemiological, and clinical features to facilitate diagnostic expertise.

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2017–2026

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17

Problem structure and the use of base-rate information from experience.

Douglas L. Medin, Stephen M. Edelson · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 1988 · 252 citations

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Correlated symptoms and simulated medical classification.

Douglas L. Medin, Mark W. Altom, Stephen M. Edelson et al. · Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition · 1982 · 245 citations

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Problem structure and the use of base-rate information from experience.

Douglas L. Medin, Stephen M. Edelson · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 1988 · 209 citations

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Overconfidence effects in category learning: A comparison of connectionist and exemplar memory models.

Winston R. Sieck, J. Frank Yates · Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition · 2001 · 52 citations

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The curriculum: overloaded and too general?

Georges Bordage · Medical Education · 1987 · 51 citations

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Authors

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  1. DL
    Douglas L. Medin

    Northwestern University, United States

    4 publications · 740 citations

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  2. SM
    Stephen M. Edelson

    Autism Research Institute, United States

    4 publications · 740 citations

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  3. CB
    Carole Briede

    2 publications · 65 citations

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  4. SM
    Sharon McMahon

    Health Canada, Canada

    2 publications · 65 citations

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  5. JF
    J. Frank Yates

    University of Michigan, United States

    2 publications · 62 citations

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Institutions

16

  1. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    497 citations

  2. The Wilson Centre

    Toronto, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    43 citations

  3. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

    Dallas, United States

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    30 citations

  4. MRC Cancer Unit

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    23 citations

  5. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    52 citations

  6. Northern Health and Social Care Trust

    Antrim, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

  7. National Taiwan University

    Taipei, Taiwan

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    39 citations

  8. University of Iowa

    Iowa City, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    19 citations

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  2. Medical Education

    2 publications · 94 citations

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  3. Basic and Applied Social Psychology

    2 publications · 65 citations

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  4. Journal of Experimental Psychology General

    2 publications · 461 citations

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  5. Human Pathology

    1 publications · 19 citations

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