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    Opinion: Teach medical students to use diagnostic tools with their patients

    Medical students deserve to get consistent training in skills that define high quality, evidence-based, modern medical practice.
    by Brian J. Browne and Art Papier Sep 19, 2018 3 minutes

    In their quests to become practicing physicians, medical students perform amazing feats of memorization to gain a rich understanding of the language and process of medicine. Despite their best efforts, misdiagnoses are still the top concern in the ECRI Institute’s 2018 report on health care quality and safety. In this age of ubiquitous digital information, why are medical decision errors commonplace? Poor training in using digital evidence to augment decision-making may be a key culprit.

    The problem isn’t our capability to create technological tools to augment clinical decision-making. A number of these exist and are

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