title: [Medical education and quality of decision-making: Is there an evidence-based relationship?].
abstract: A medical decision when facing a clinical problem is the result of a complex process involving clinical reasoning and decision-making components. Several biases and external factors may influence this process. Educational interventions may be helpful to modify some of those factors and enhance the quality of decision-making, such as the training of clinical reasoning, making physicians aware of potential biases, or training them to use some tools brought by the evidence-based medicine movement. However, the impact of such interventions remains difficult to quantify because high-quality data are lacking and few studies really assess patient outcomes. This article reviews the available evidence of interventions aiming at improving the quality of decision-making and stresses the importance of involving clinician teachers in medical education research.
authors.affiliation: Service de médecine interne générale, UDREM, hôpitaux universitaires, 1211 Genève 14, Suisse. mathieu.nendaz@hcuge.ch
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nendaz
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D004501:Education, Medical; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care