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Illness Script Theory

Illness Script Theory is a cognitive framework in medical education that explains clinical reasoning as the development and application of organized knowledge structures (scripts) representing the typical presentation, pathophysiology, and management of diseases, differentiated by its emphasis on the experiential accumulation and refinement of these scripts to support diagnostic expertise.

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2017–2026

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A cognitive perspective on medical expertise

Henk G. Schmidt, Gina Norman, Henny P. A. Boshuizen · Academic Medicine · 1990 · 1.1K citations

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Thirty years of illness scripts: Theoretical origins and practical applications

Eugène J. F. M. Custers · Medical Teacher · 2014 · 193 citations

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Using script theory to cultivate illness script formation and clinical reasoning in health professions education

Stuart Lubarsky, Valérie Dory, Marie‐Claude Audétat et al. · Canadian Medical Education Journal · 2015 · 140 citations · Full text

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The influence of medical expertise, case typicality, and illness script component on case processing and disease probability estimates

Eugène J. F. M. Custers, Henny P. A. Boshuizen, Henk G. Schmidt · Memory & Cognition · 1996 · 93 citations · Full text

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The Role of Illness Scripts in the Development of Medical Diagnostic Expertise: Results From an Interview Study

Eugène J. F. M. Custers, Henny P. A. Boshuizen, Henk G. Schmidt · Cognition and Instruction · 1998 · 81 citations · Full text

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  1. EJ
    Eugène J. F. M. Custers

    University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands

    7 publications · 563 citations

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  2. HG
    Henk G. Schmidt

    Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

    4 publications · 1.3K citations

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  3. BC
    Bernard Charlin

    Université de Montréal, Canada

    3 publications · 252 citations

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  4. AM
    Alireza Monajemi

    Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies

    3 publications · 37 citations

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  5. HP
    Henny P. A. Boshuizen

    Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands

    3 publications · 1.3K citations

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Institutions

60

  1. Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies

    Tehran, Iran

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    51 citations

  2. Université de Montréal

    Montreal, Canada

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    392 citations

  3. University Medical Center Utrecht

    Utrecht, The Netherlands

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    279 citations

  4. Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences

    Tehran, Iran

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    23 citations

  5. Université de Sherbrooke

    Sherbrooke, Canada

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    76 citations

  6. Maastricht University

    Maastricht, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    300 citations

  7. Iran University of Medical Sciences

    Tehran, Iran

    2 h-index

    7 publications

    82 citations

  8. University of Aberdeen

    Aberdeen, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    46 citations

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  1. Medical Teacher

    4 publications · 289 citations

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  2. Academic Medicine

    3 publications · 1.2K citations

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  4. PubMed

    Repository · 1 publications · 13 citations

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  5. Cortex

    1 publications · 26 citations

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