The document discusses clinical problem solving strategies for medical professionals. It notes that diagnostic errors occur in 10-15% of cases and are the second leading cause of adverse medical events. The document contrasts the thinking of novices versus experts, and emphasizes building strong "illness scripts" through reading and experience to aid in effectively representing problems, establishing differential diagnoses, and using strategies like hypothesis testing and pattern recognition.

1. Dr Abdalla Mutwakil Gamal
Medical Officer
Mr Mohammed Babiker Unit
Department of Orthopedic Surgery
National RibatTeaching Hospital
Khartoum, Sudan.

3.  Why should I care?
 Basic Background.
 Novices vs Experts.
 Effectiveness and Efficiency.
 Knowledge acquisition and organization.
 Compare and ContrastThinking (CCT)
 Illness Scripts.
 Reading to create strong illness scripts.
 Clinical Problem Solving Strategies.
 Problem Representation.
 Establishing and prioritizing a differential
diagnosis.

5.  frequency.
Estimates: 10-15%
 consequences.
2nd leading cause of adverse events, among medical
errors
Associated with higher morbidity than other medical
error types

6.  Effectiveness.
 Efficiency.

7.  Method of teaching.
 Method of debugging.

16. “Learn in the style that you will use the
knowledge”
Georges Bordage, MD PhD
(Cognitive Psychology)

23.  Disease Specific Packets of Information
(Reading and experience)

29. 1. Hypothesis testing.
2. Forward thinking.
3. Pattern recognition.

36.  Descriptive Processing
 Summative Processing

40.  75% pretest probability
 30-50 % pretest probability
 < 30% pretest probability