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Use of a structured approach and virtual simulation practice to improve diagnostic reasoning.

February 23, 2022

Dekhtyar M, Park YS, Kalinyak J, et al. Diagnosis (Berl). 2022;9(1):69-76.

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Standardized and virtual patient encounters are often used to develop medical and nursing students’ diagnostic reasoning. Through educational interventions including virtual patients, medical students increased their diagnostic accuracy compared to baseline and the completeness and efficiency in the differential diagnosis increased.

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