Sex Differences in Symptom Phenotypes Among Older Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction

Making a diagnosis for an individual patient typically starts with a clinician using pattern recognition to generate a list of diagnostic possibilities.1-4 Novice students, lacking clinical experience, use causal knowledge of diseases to recognize diagnostic possibilities, whereas expert diagnosticians rely more on clinical experience including memories of specific clinical instances. 5,6 When an instance such as a diagnostic encounter is stored in long-term memory, it is remembered using a knowledge structure called an exemplar.

Source: The American Journal of Medicine - October 26, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: John E. Brush, Alexandra M. Hajduk, Erich J. Greene, Rachel P. Dreyer, Harlan M. Krumholz, Sarwat I. Chaudhry Tags: Clinical Research Study Source Type: research