Does Time Pressure Have a Negative Effect on Diagnostic Accuracy?

Dalal A ALQahtani1, Jerome I Rotgans, Silvia Mamede

  • 1D.A. ALQahtani is lecturer and medical education specialist, Department of Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences (DDS), College of Dentistry-King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. J.I. Rotgans is assistant professor, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. S. Mamede is associate professor, Institute of Medical Education Research Rotterdam, Erasmus Medical Center, and Department of Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. I. ALAlwan is professor and assistant vice president for educational affairs, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. M.E.M. Magzoub is professor, Department of Medical Education, College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. F.M. Altayeb is research assistant, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. M.A. Mohamedani is research coordinator, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. H.G. Schmidt is professor, Department of Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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