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Self-Assessment of Medical Knowledge: Do Physicians Overestimate or Underestimate?
The relationship between doctors' medical knowledge and their inability to assess correctly what they know was investigated. Sixty out of 65 hospital physicians sat a MRCP Part 1 multiple-choice examination. In addition to the factual questions, they had to estimate how certain they were that t...
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Royal College of Physicians of London
1991
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5377195/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1960686 |
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author | Jankowski, Janusz Crombie, I. Block, Rose Mayet, J. McLay, J. Struthers, A. D. |
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description | The relationship between doctors' medical knowledge and their inability to assess correctly what they know was investigated. Sixty out of 65 hospital physicians sat a MRCP Part 1 multiple-choice examination. In addition to the factual questions, they had to estimate how certain they were that their answers were correct. We confirmed that factual knowledge increased with clinical experience from the grade of house officer through to that of senior registrar. The self-assessment of likelihood of being correct revealed that, on average, doctors underestimated their knowledge by 8%. However, those who had passed their MRCP examination within the past three years overestimated on average by 6%. We suggest that this inadequacy of self-assessment could have serious clinical implications, and should be assessed. |
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spelling | pubmed-53771952019-01-22 Self-Assessment of Medical Knowledge: Do Physicians Overestimate or Underestimate? Jankowski, Janusz Crombie, I. Block, Rose Mayet, J. McLay, J. Struthers, A. D. J R Coll Physicians Lond Original Papers The relationship between doctors' medical knowledge and their inability to assess correctly what they know was investigated. Sixty out of 65 hospital physicians sat a MRCP Part 1 multiple-choice examination. In addition to the factual questions, they had to estimate how certain they were that their answers were correct. We confirmed that factual knowledge increased with clinical experience from the grade of house officer through to that of senior registrar. The self-assessment of likelihood of being correct revealed that, on average, doctors underestimated their knowledge by 8%. However, those who had passed their MRCP examination within the past three years overestimated on average by 6%. We suggest that this inadequacy of self-assessment could have serious clinical implications, and should be assessed. Royal College of Physicians of London 1991-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5377195/ /pubmed/1960686 Text en © Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London 1991 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which permits non-commercial use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Original Papers Jankowski, Janusz Crombie, I. Block, Rose Mayet, J. McLay, J. Struthers, A. D. Self-Assessment of Medical Knowledge: Do Physicians Overestimate or Underestimate? |
title | Self-Assessment of Medical Knowledge: Do Physicians Overestimate or Underestimate? |
title_full | Self-Assessment of Medical Knowledge: Do Physicians Overestimate or Underestimate? |
title_fullStr | Self-Assessment of Medical Knowledge: Do Physicians Overestimate or Underestimate? |
title_full_unstemmed | Self-Assessment of Medical Knowledge: Do Physicians Overestimate or Underestimate? |
title_short | Self-Assessment of Medical Knowledge: Do Physicians Overestimate or Underestimate? |
title_sort | self-assessment of medical knowledge: do physicians overestimate or underestimate? |
topic | Original Papers |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5377195/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1960686 |
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