title: Teaching medical diagnosis: a rule-based approach.
abstract: This paper discusses the design of a diagnostic process simulator which teaches medical students to think clinically. This was possible to achieve due to the application of a rule-based approach to represent diagnosis and treatments. Whilst using the simulator, as a result of the student's incorrect and correct decisions, the clinical situation changes accordingly. New diagnostic options result in the ability to choose further clinical and laboratory tests. The simulator is being implemented on Sun workstations and Macintosh computers using Prolog programming language.
authors.affiliation: Decision Analysis Laboratory, School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Michalowski
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rubin
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Aggarwal
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D003933:Diagnosis; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D013850:Thinking