Methods of Information in Medicine · 1989 · 86 citations · 1 references
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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 decision-making. Yet this is not often the case.
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