Physicians' Use of Deep Features: Expertise Differences in Patient Categorization

摘要: Medical doctors make many decisions when interacting with patients, including diagnosing the problem and determining an appropriate treatment of given patient’s circumstances. While diagnostic reasoning has been studied extensively, about patient management not. Using a forced-choice triad task we investigated use deep structures related to in novices (medical school students), intermediates residents), experts (endocrinologists). We found that expert participants are generally more likely choose feature matches than intermediate novice participants. Specifically, on trials while either or trials. These results reveal difference performance for subjects management, versus diagnostic, suggest expertise diagnosis develop along different trajectories as physicians complete their medical training.