IDENTIFYING DIAGNOSTIC EXPERTS - Measuring the Antecedents to Pattern Recognition

Thomas Loveday, Mark Wiggins, Marino Festa, David Schell

2012

Abstract

Medical expertise is typically denoted on the basis of experience, but this approach appears to lack validity and reliability. The present study investigated an innovative assessment of diagnostic expertise in medicine. This approach was developed from evidence that expert performance develops following the acquisition of cue associations in memory, which facilitates diagnostic pattern-recognition. Four distinct tasks were developed, for which the judicious extraction and selection of environmental cues may be advantageous. Across the tasks, performance clustered into two levels, reflecting competent and expert performance. These clusters were only weakly correlated with traditional methods of identifying domain experts, such as years of experience. The significance of this outcome is discussed in relation to training, evaluation and assessment.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Loveday T., Wiggins M., Festa M. and Schell D. (2012). IDENTIFYING DIAGNOSTIC EXPERTS - Measuring the Antecedents to Pattern Recognition . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM, ISBN 978-989-8425-99-7, pages 269-274. DOI: 10.5220/0003705902690274

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icpram12,
author={Thomas Loveday and Mark Wiggins and Marino Festa and David Schell},
title={IDENTIFYING DIAGNOSTIC EXPERTS - Measuring the Antecedents to Pattern Recognition},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM,},
year={2012},
pages={269-274},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003705902690274},
isbn={978-989-8425-99-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM,
TI - IDENTIFYING DIAGNOSTIC EXPERTS - Measuring the Antecedents to Pattern Recognition
SN - 978-989-8425-99-7
AU - Loveday T.
AU - Wiggins M.
AU - Festa M.
AU - Schell D.
PY - 2012
SP - 269
EP - 274
DO - 10.5220/0003705902690274