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PM02: SMDM Core Course: Introduction to the Psychology of Medical Decision Making
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Event:
SMDM 39th Annual Meeting: Pittsburgh, PA)
Oct 22, 2017 2:00PM - Oct 22, 2017 5:30PM
Session Type:
Short Course- PM 1/2 Day
Description
Synopsis
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.
The course will cover: 1) problems with decision making, 2) how the environment we operate in affects our decisions, 3) the role of emotions in decision making, 4) ways to address decision making errors, and 5) practical applications of the lessons from decision psychology to medicine. Along the way we will cover cognitive heuristics and their resulting biases, our ability to describe our decision processes and to learn from experience, environmental constraints on judgment, strategies for debiasing, and individual differences in our susceptibility to bias.
Objectives:
To understand 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, as well as appropriate patient engagement in decision making, based on psychological theory.
Sunday, October 22, 2017
02:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Course Director
Hilary Bekker
University of Leeds
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Session Fees
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This session is free
Early:
$190.00
$320.00
Regular:
$235.00
$365.00
Late:
$235.00
$365.00
This session is free
Early:
$165.00
$165.00
Regular:
$210.00
$210.00
Late:
$210.00
$210.00