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ORGANIZER:London Judgment and Decision Making (LJDM) group
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DESCRIPTION:*_Effects of information gathering and experience on the diagno
 sis of difficult problems by General Practitioners_*
\n_Olga Kostopoulou1\,
  Brendan Delaney1\, Craig Munro1\, Jurriaan Oudhoff1\, Radhika Nath1\, Clar
 e Harries2_
\n1 University of Birmingham
\n2 University College London
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\
 nThis programme of work aimed to identify predictors of diagnostic accuracy
  in primary care with a view to developing recommendations for diagnostic t
 raining and support. Seven realistic and rich-in-detail scenarios were cons
 tructed and presented to 84 GPs differing in experience\, to diagnose. Usin
 g a process tracing approach\, participants’ information gathering was re
 corded\; following diagnosis\, stimulated recall was performed on selected 
 scenarios. The talk will focus on how the scenarios were constructed\, how 
 the standards for assessing performance (information gathering and accuracy
 ) were derived\, and on the potential role of hypothesis generation as a de
 terminant of both information gathering and diagnostic accuracy.
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 Decision-making as an observable skill: Studies in a surgical simulator   _
 *
\n_Nick Sevdalis1\,2\, Shabnam Undre1\, Mary Koutantji1\, Rosamond Jackli
 n1\, Ara Darzi1\, and Charles Vincent1_
\n1 Imperial College London\, UK
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 2 National Patient Safety Agency
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\nAlthough the surgical community has 
 traditionally recognised the role of sound surgical decision-making in safe
  and effective surgical care\, the first relevant empirical studies appeare
 d in the literature only recently. In this talk\, we shall firstly describe
  the evolution of thinking about surgical decision-making in the context of
  surgical skill and performance. Then we shall describe empirical work carr
 ied out with surgical trainees using aviation-styled simulators\, in which 
 decision-making was assessed alongside other skills. The talk will cover co
 mparisons of decision-making with other observable skills (including surgeo
 ns’ technical performance)\, comparisons between surgeons’ and other op
 erating theatre staff’s decision-making\, and\, finally\, comparisons bet
 ween self- and expert assessment of decision-making. 
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SUMMARY:London Judgment and Decision Making (LJDM) Seminar: Assessing clini
 cal thinking and decision processes: Overview and comparative assessment ac
 ross disciplines
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LOCATION:University College London Psychology Department Room 305 (3rd floo
 r)
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