Assessing Patient Management Plans of Doctors and Medical Students: An Illness Script Perspective
Journal of Continuing Education in the Health ProfessionsPublished 1 January 2012
Alireza Monajemi, Henk G. Schmidt, Remy M. J. P. Rikers
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The role of Mx knowledge in illness script development and how it relates to diagnostic knowledge in the course of development toward expertise is shown and experienced physicians' accurate management plans are characterized by a high number of the Mx and Dx items.
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The experienced physicians' accurate management plans are characterized by a high number of the Mx and Dx items. For sixth-year students the management plans are still incomplete, which leads to generic as well as inaccurate Mx orders. For fourth-year students, the Mx focus is lacking, and hence they seem to treat an Mx task as if it were a Dx task.
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