At Cyprus (Earli, 2015, August) Margje van de Wiel presented the first results of an interview study with GP-trainees and their supervisors about their perceptions of learning diagnostic reasoning. Her presentation was at a symposium entitled ‘Learning in and for the medical profession: from formal to informal and beyond’. (coauthors Christian Mengelers, Marjan Govaerts, Erik Stolper)… read more

Prof. P. Van Royen gave an poster presentation at the 15th Biennial European Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making in Antwerp, Belgium (8-10 June 2014). How do gut feelings feature in tutorial dialogues on diagnostic reasoning in GP traineeship? Introduction: Diagnostic reasoning is considered to be based on the interaction between analytical and non-analytical… read more

  Background: The Wells rule is a tool to support physicians in their decisions regarding Pulmonary Embolism (PE). The rule includes a subjective element: 3 points are allocated to the physician’s assessment whether PE is more likely than an alternative diagnosis. The diagnostic process leading to the suspicion of PE is not well described in… read more

Marie Barais, PhD student in Brest, presented her ongoing study into the significance of the sense of alarm in chest pain in primary care at the EGPRN conference in Kusadasi (Turkey) (See poster gut feeling dyspnea chest pain poster mb 2)

Erik Stolper presented in behalf of the Maastricht-Antwerp group the first results of a study ‘Analytical and non-analytical reasoning in tutorial dialogues and the use of knowledge’.... read more

Slawek Czachowski and Agnieszka Sowinska presented the first results of the linguistic validation of the Gut Feelings Questionnaire (English to Polish). ... read more

Luc Ciompi’s affect-logic and the significance for GPs' diagnostic reasoning... read more