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Fung, Kelvin; And Others – Journal of Dental Education, 1995
Development of an inexpensive but powerful computer program to teach clinical periodontal diagnosis using epidemiological principles is described. Using probabilistic thinking, the student is guided from application of raw research data to derivation of likelihood ratios and how they affect clinical decision making. Student response was found to…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Computer Software Development, Courseware, Critical Thinking