The Doctors Company Foundation gave a $200k grant to The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine and MedU to address the issue of misdiagnosing, according to advance healthcare network.
Here are five points:
1. The grant money will go towards improved diagnostic training for medical students.
2. Clinical reasoning errors and cognitive pitfalls will be addressed in the training.
3. MedU is a nonprofit educational healthcare organization that will use its platform, SIDM, to teach medical students about the errors of misdiagnosing.
4. SIDM will offer third- and fourth-year medical students six lessons.
5. Andrew Olson, MD, of SIDM will co-direct the training.