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Learning Strategy Impacts Medical Diagnostic Reasoning in Early Learners
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Sheldon, Signy; Fan, Carina; Uner, Idil; Young, Meredith – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2023
Relating learned information to similar yet new scenarios, transfer of learning, is a key characteristic of expert reasoning in many fields including medicine. Psychological research indicates that transfer of learning is enhanced via active retrieval strategies. For diagnostic reasoning, this finding suggests that actively retrieving diagnostic…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Transfer of Training, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Identification