Conference proceeding
Is grandma like a lichen planus? The problem of image perception and knowledge retention in pathology
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol.8673, pp.867309-867309-8
03/28/2013
DOI: 10.1117/12.2007916
Abstract
Medicine is the science of acquiring a lot of obscure knowledge and the art of knowing when to apply it, even if only once in a physician’s lifetime. Although medical experts seem to have it all figured out, being significantly better and faster than trainees, many studies have suggested that it is not only the amount of knowledge – which comes with experience – that differentiates the experts, but it is also how the knowledge is structured in memory. To acquire new knowledge, trainees will first encode both ‘surface’ (i.e., irrelevant) and ‘structural’ (relevant) features, and repeated presentations of the material will allow for dismissal of the unimportant elements from memory. However, just because knowledge has been encoded it does not mean that it is safely guarded in the physician’s memory; as with any information, if it is not tended to, it will slowly decay, and eventually it may be completely forgotten. In this study we investigated knowledge retention in a specific sub-domain of Pathology which is rarely, if ever, used by trainees. We wanted to determine the relationship between the way long-term memory is accessed (i.e., through recognition or free recall) and trainee performance. We also sought to determine whether access to long-term memory through either mechanism led to better transfer of newly acquired knowledge to never before seen cases.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Is grandma like a lichen planus? The problem of image perception and knowledge retention in pathology
- Creators
- Claudia Mello-Thoms - Univ. of Pittsburgh (United States)Elizabeth Legowski - Univ. of Pittsburgh (United States)Eugene Tseytlin - Univ. of Pittsburgh (United States)
- Contributors
- Craig K Abbey (Editor) - Univ. of California, Santa Barbara (United States)Claudia R Mello-Thoms (Editor) - Univ. of Pittsburgh (United States)
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol.8673, pp.867309-867309-8
- Publisher
- SPIE
- DOI
- 10.1117/12.2007916
- ISSN
- 1605-7422
- eISSN
- 1996-756X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/28/2013
- Academic Unit
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Radiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984051554902771
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