If the essence of clinical practice is a process of sequential problem-solving, whereby a physician works with a patient to formulate a series of decisions about diagnostic treatment, then it would naturally follow that the essence of medical education should evolve around the training of would-be clinicians in the difficult art of diagnostic decisionmaking. Yet this is not often the case.
Key-Words:
Decision Support Systems - Computer-Assisted Diagnosis - Computer-Based Problem Solving - Expert Systems - Computer Simulation
