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AM02: SMDM Core Course: Introduction to the Psychology of Medical Decision Making
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Event:
SMDM 40th Annual Meeting: Montreal, QC, Canada)
Oct 14, 2018 9:00AM - Oct 14, 2018 12:30PM
Session Type:
Short Course- AM 1/2 Day
Description
Background
This course introduces participants to psychological theory and empirical research related to making decisions in health and medicine. The psychology of decision making can be used to understand patient and physician behavior and to design behavioral and environmental interventions to improve diagnoses and optimize decision making.
Course Type
Half Day
Course Level
Beginner
Format Requirements
The course involves presentation of information by lectures, demonstrations, and small and large group discussions. Attendees should expect to be actively involved in discussions of psychological phenomena as they relate to their clinical, teaching, or research interests. There are no prerequisites for this introductory course, but the following articles may be helpful to read or reference before taking the course: Dual process models, heuristics and biases: 1) Kahneman D. Maps of bounded rationality: Psychology for behavioral economics. Am Econ Rev. 2003;93(5):1449-475. https://www.princeton.edu/~kahneman/docs/Publications/Maps_bounded_rationality_DK_2003.pdf 2) Weber EU, Johnson EJ. Mindful judgment and decision making. Annu Rev Psychol. 2009;60:53-85. https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/sites/decisionsciences/files/files/MindfulJudgment.PDF Role of affect in decision-making: 1) Loewenstein GF, Weber EU, Hsee CK, Welch N. Risk as feelings. Psychol Bull 2001;127(2):267–286. Debiasing: 1) Ludolph, R and Schulz PR. Debiasing health-related judgments and decision making: A systematic review. Medical Decision Making. 2017; 38:3-13.
Overview
This course is an introduction to the psychology of decision making and its use in understanding how people make health and treatment decisions. Decision psychology explains how people make choices between options, and how different types of information influence decisions. Understanding how people make decisions about health and illness can help explain why there are variations in healthcare practice, and inform the type of interventions needed to support patients to make more informed treatment decisions, and health practitioners to make more evidence-based management choices, than they do unaided.
Description & Objectives
Description:
The course will cover: 1) how people make decisions, 2) how the environment we operate in impacts our judgments and decisions, 3) how risks, values, and emotions impact our decision making, 4) how to think ‘better’ using intuitive and systematic methods, and 5) explaining health practitioner and patient decisions. We will cover cognitive heuristics and their resulting biases, how emotions influence our judgments and decisions, environmental constraints on judgment, strategies for de-biasing, and individual differences in our susceptibility to bias.
Objectives:
To understand people’s (patient and physician) vulnerability to cognition-based errors.
To understand the influence of the social, emotional, and informational environment upon health-related decisions.
To develop approaches to support physician self-monitoring and improvement, and enhanced patient decision making, based on psychological theory.
Course Directors
Olga Kostopoulou
Imperial College London
Aaron M. Scherer
University of Iowa
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$200.00
$325.00
Regular:
$245.00
$370.00
Late:
$245.00
$370.00
This session is free
Early:
$170.00
$170.00
Regular:
$215.00
$215.00
Late:
$215.00
$215.00