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This paper describes an empirical study of the role of biomedical knowledge in medical problem solving at different stages of medical expertise. Special attention is given to differences in the approaches taken to typical and atypical problems. Finally some implications for the design of decision support systems are discussed.
Parts of this paper were presented earlier at the Annual Meeting of the Americal Educational Research Association 1990, Boston MA, and at the Delft Conference on the Acquisition of Medical Knowlegde for Expert Systems. Preparation of this paper was made possible by grants from the Institute for Educational Research in the Netherlands (SVO, #6626) to Dr. H.G. Schmidt and a Spencer fellowship from the US National Academy of Education to Dr. H.P.A. Boshuizen.
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Boshuizen, H.P.A., Schmidt, H.G., Talmon, J.L. (1991). A Developmental Perspective on the Role of Biomedical Knowledge in Medical Problem Solving; Implications for AI. In: Stefanelli, M., Hasman, A., Fieschi, M., Talmon, J. (eds) AIME 91. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 44. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48650-0_3
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