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Area of Science:

  • Medical Education
  • Clinical Decision-Making
  • Cognitive Bias in Medicine

Background:

  • The relationship between physician diagnostic accuracy and confidence is poorly understood.
  • Accurate self-assessment is crucial for effective clinical practice.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess diagnostic calibration in physicians.
  • To examine how calibration changes with diagnostic process evolution and case difficulty.

Main Methods:

  • General internists diagnosed 4 case vignettes (easy/difficult) in a web-based format.
  • Confidence and accuracy were recorded after each diagnostic phase.
  • Resource requests were documented before definitive data.

Main Results:

  • Physicians correctly diagnosed 55.3% of easy and 5.8% of difficult cases.
  • Confidence levels showed minimal difference between easy (7.2/10) and difficult (6.4/10) cases.
  • Calibration was poorer for difficult cases, with overconfidence observed.

Conclusions:

  • Physician confidence appears insensitive to diagnostic accuracy and case difficulty.
  • This disconnect may impede critical reevaluation of challenging diagnoses.
  • Overconfidence in difficult cases could lead to diagnostic errors.