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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Medical Education
  • Decision Science

Background:

  • Bayesian reasoning and base rate neglect are critical in medical diagnosis.
  • Previous studies on physicians' use of disease prevalence in diagnosis have limitations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess if medical residents use their beliefs about disease prevalence in diagnostic judgments.
  • To determine if residents' beliefs about disease prevalence change during residency.

Main Methods:

  • Residents evaluated ambiguous clinical vignettes, judging the likelihood of multiple diagnoses.
  • Residents subsequently estimated the prevalence of diseases presented in the vignettes.
  • Prevalence estimates were tracked over three years of residency.

Main Results:

  • Residents who believed a disease was more prevalent assigned it a higher likelihood in vignette cases.
  • The precision of residents' disease prevalence estimates improved over three years of residency.
  • The accuracy of residents' disease prevalence estimates did not significantly improve over time.

Conclusions:

  • Residents demonstrate a rational tendency to integrate disease prevalence beliefs into diagnostic reasoning.
  • Findings contribute to understanding intuitive base rate usage in human judgment.
  • Medical training may enhance the precision, but not necessarily the accuracy, of physicians' prevalence estimations.