Clinical Problem Solving
University of California, San Francisco via Coursera
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Overview
Syllabus
- Module 1: How experts understand diseases and how to read like an expert to form disease based illness scripts.
- Module 2: How experts analyze their patient' problems: processing and the patient illness script.
- Module 3: Using disease and patient illness scripts to prioritize differential diagnostic possibilities into tiers of probability
- Module 4: Understanding how diagnostic tests can be appropriately used to improve diagnostic accuracy.
- Module 5: Diagnostic Mistakes: how they happen, how you can avoid them and how to find them once they occur.
- Module 6: How our clinical problem solving strategies can be used to write good test questions, perform well on tests, and teach others to do well too.
Taught by
Catherine R Lucey
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4.4 rating, based on 7 reviews
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Peter M Abraham is taking this course right now, spending 1 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be medium.
My review is based on how the course was advertised and then once I got in finding it was very different than how it was marketed. It was advertised that if you wanted to learn or improve your critical thinking skills and were in the healthcare field,... -
Anonymous completed this course.
Although this course is for medical students and doctors, lay persons like me could follow it well, thanks to the clarity of the teaching. Fascinating for anyone who wants an understanding of the thought process of doctors and the inherent challenges. -
Jessica Sheena Prince completed this course, spending 6 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be medium.
One of the best Courses I have taken so far. Very easy to follow and Interesting take on Medical Diagnosis and error and flaws in the system and how to attempt to overcome them. -
Anonymous completed this course.
Excellent course. The concepts were explained in an organized and clear way. Very practical approach. -
Roberto Jeske Coutinho completed this course, spending 2 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be easy.
Specially for the beginner and intermediate levels this is a great course and if you are advanced, at the least it will be a fun and worthwhile review. I strongly recommend. -
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