NEJM Group, in collaboration with Education Management Solutions (EMS), has launched NEJM Healer — an online learning application to teach and assess clinical reasoning.
NEJM Group debuts this innovative product at a time when undergraduate and graduate medical education programs recognize the need for improved diagnostic skills among trainees but lack a systematic way to address the issue. NEJM Healer provides medical schools, physician assistant programs, and residencies with the tool they need to improve clinical reasoning instruction and is at the vanguard of establishing clinical reasoning as a recognized and tested core competency in medical education.
Delivering a library of virtual patient cases through an innovative interface and providing advanced performance feedback and reporting, NEJM Healer demystifies the clinical reasoning process for both students and educators.
With each case, learners are taught to gather pertinent data thoroughly and efficiently, create iterative problem representations, activate illness scripts, build broad differential diagnoses, and use likelihood ratios to home in on a lead diagnosis. Learners receive instant feedback on the quality of their performance with each virtual patient encounter. They can directly compare themselves to how experts navigate the very same cases and see rationales supporting everything from the final diagnosis to why an individual datum was significant. Educators can use the tool to teach clinical reasoning and assess and remediate their learners' skills using robust performance data.
NEJM Healer offers an extensive library of data-driven, expert reviewed, patient cases and supporting content educators need, covering core clinical presentations; a rich experience for deliberate practice through virtual patient encounters; and the ability for educators to assign cases to support the formal instruction of clinical reasoning.
NEJM Healer is available now at https://www.simulationiq.com/nejm-healer.
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