Cracking down on misdiagnoses: 5 points about new medical student training

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.

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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.

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