After a recent talk entitled “Mastering Diagnosis”, Casey Parker and I sat down to discuss a few of the key points I was trying to make. Although this might be one of the nerdiest talks I have ever given, based entirely around math, I think it is one of the most important, because we cause a lot of harm when we get this math wrong. This is the video of that chat:
You can find more of Casey and I chatting about emergency medicine on the BroomeDocs podcast.
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4 thoughts on “Mastering Diagnosis VodCast”
This presentation should be mandatory for second year medical students.
These are great examples of how we should educate interns / residents (and med students) in the basics of probabilistics. I am an an instructor for a course (EMCC: Emergency Medicine Core Competences) using these theories through case-based learning , and I always find that the theory must be backed up with real-life examples for people to understand (of course the hugely important step of gathering and sorting info has already been done in these cases). I’d love to see videos where you go through such case examples using this theory (examples of how I do it are in the vidoes linked below)
I’ve made a couple myself on the topic which are also free. I’m always interested in seeing how others explain these concepts , and so I thought you may be too:
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As always, thanks for all your great work!
Love this Vod cast. Practice changing for sure. Quick question, Would not the head injury pt who was 72 years old have high risk for his age alone by the Canadian CT rule?
I am not sure this this comment is just meant to troll me, but 100% no, that is not how that Canadian CT head rule works
But more important, we have very good evidence that no one should be using the Canadian CT head rule, and that it just hurts our patients: https://first10em.com/canadian-ct-head-rule/