Clinician’s gut feeling about dypnea and chest pain in primary care: a poster presentation
Thursday, June 13th, 2013
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)
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The transculturality of ‘gut feelings’. Results from a French Delphi consensus survey
Friday, April 19th, 2013
To determine whether a consensus on ‘gut feelings’ in general practice in France could be obtained a Delphi consensus procedure has been used. The researchers took the Dutch initial statements as starting points. After three Delphi rounds, French GPs reached agreement on nine statements. Many similarities have been found between the Dutch and the French defining… read more
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Family physicians’ gut feelings are measurable: construct validation of a questionnaire
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
We succeeded to validate a short questionnaire measuring the presence of gut feelings in diagnostic reasoning. It enables quantitative research into the role of gut feelings and their diagnostic value in family physicians’ diagnostic reasoning.... read more
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Analytical and non-analytical reasoning in tutorial dialogues
Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
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
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The linguistic validation of the Gut Feelings Questionnaire from English to Polish
Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
Slawek Czachowski and Agnieszka Sowinska presented the first results of the linguistic validation of the Gut Feelings Questionnaire (English to Polish). ... read more
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Luc Ciompi’s affect-logic
Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
Luc Ciompi’s affect-logic and the significance for GPs' diagnostic reasoning... read more
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Thirteenth tip for teaching expertise in clinical reasoning
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
A letter to editor published in Medical Teacher: ‘Take your gut feelings seriously’. Increased awareness of gut feelings, fast feedback, structured reflection and specific experience may help student to learn when to trust gut feelings and when to slow down. http://informahealthcare.com/doi/full/10.3109/0142159X.2012.652709
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Safety programs in general practice should focus on prognosis instead of diagnosis
Sunday, December 4th, 2011
Recently, we sent a comment to the editor of Annals of Family Medicine as we do not agree with the ‘lessons for patient safety’ Van Gaal et al stated after studying complaints against family physicians submitted to disciplinary tribunals in the Netherlands. See Track Comments on www.annfammed.org/content/9/6/522.full. The authors concluded that safety programs in family practice should… read more
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Intuitive knowledge is valuable knowledge
Friday, November 18th, 2011
An article entitled ‘Intuitive knowledge is valuable knowlegde’ (Intuitieve kennis is volwaardige kennis) has been published in Medisch Contact, a Dutch medical journal (November 18 2011). It describes the role of skilled intuition in diagnostic reasoning and how it can be teached in medical education,
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A full translation of the ‘Third Track’ into Dutch
Friday, October 28th, 2011
In HuisartsNu, the Flemish scientific journal for GPs, a full translation of the “Gut feelings as a third track in general practitioners’ diagnostic reasoning” article has been published, split into two consecutive parts (part 1 http://www.domusmedica.be/onderzoek/huisartsnu/archief/2011-jg-40/3679-het-pluisniet-pluis-gevoel.html and part 2 http://www.domusmedica.be/onderzoek/huisartsnu/archief/2011-jg-40/3837-het-pluisniet-pluis-gevoel-deel-2.html).
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