Digital Tools to Enhance Clinical Reasoning

Physicians can improve their diagnostic acumen by adopting a simulation based approach to analyzing published cases. The tight coupling of clinical problems and their solutions affords physicians the opportunity to efficiently upgrade their illness scripts (structured knowledge of a specific disease) and schemas (structured frameworks for common problems). The more the number of times clinicians practice accessing and applying those knowledge structures through published cases, the greater the odds that they will have an enhanced approach to similar patient cases in the future. This article highlights digital resources that increase the number of cases a clinician experiences and learns from.