Virtual Interactive Case-Based Education (VICE): A Conference for Deliberate Practice of Diagnostic Reasoning.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Current approaches to teaching diagnostic reasoning minimally address the need for deliberate practice. We developed an educational conference for internal medicine residents to practice diagnostic reasoning and examine how biases affect their differential diagnoses through cognitive autopsies.

Methods

We formatted the Virtual Interactive Case-Based Education (VICE) conference as a clinical problem-solving exercise, in which a facilitator presents a case to a single discussant selected from the audience. We delivered VICE on an internet-based conferencing platform with screen-sharing capability over approximately 30 minutes. To maximize learners' psychological safety, we employed an active facilitation model that normalized uncertainty and prioritized the diagno

SUBMITTER: Logan AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8131415 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature