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Home Research Research Library Modeling fatigue Modeling fatigue 2002 Author(s) Sumner, W, and Xu, J Z Topic(s) Education & Training Keyword(s) Clinical Simulation Volume AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings Source AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings The American Board of Family Practice is developing a patient simulation program to evaluate diagnostic and management skills. The simulator must give temporally and physiologically reasonable answers to symptom questions such as “Have you been tired?” A three-step process generates symptom histories. In the first step, the simulator determines points in time where it should calculate instantaneous symptom status. In the second step, a Bayesian network implementing a roughly physiologic model of the symptom generates a value on a severity scale at each sampling time. Positive, zero, and negative values represent increased, normal, and decreased status, as applicable. The simulator plots these values over time. In the third step, another Bayesian network inspects this plot and reports how the symptom changed over time. This mechanism handles major trends, multiple and concurrent symptom causes, and gradually effective treatments. Other temporal insights, such as observations about short-term symptom relief, require complimentary mechanisms. ABFM Research Read all 2015 Assessing the viability of External Searchable Resources on the American Board of Family Medicine’s certification examination Go to Assessing the viability of External Searchable Resources on the American Board of Family Medicine’s certification examination 2024 US Primary Care Workforce Growth: A Decade of Limited Progress, and Projected Needs Through 2040 Go to US Primary Care Workforce Growth: A Decade of Limited Progress, and Projected Needs Through 2040 2018 Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice: What We’ve Learned and Where We Need to Go Go to Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice: What We’ve Learned and Where We Need to Go 2017 Fellowship or Further Training for Family Medicine Residents? Go to Fellowship or Further Training for Family Medicine Residents?
Author(s) Sumner, W, and Xu, J Z Topic(s) Education & Training Keyword(s) Clinical Simulation Volume AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings Source AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings
ABFM Research Read all 2015 Assessing the viability of External Searchable Resources on the American Board of Family Medicine’s certification examination Go to Assessing the viability of External Searchable Resources on the American Board of Family Medicine’s certification examination 2024 US Primary Care Workforce Growth: A Decade of Limited Progress, and Projected Needs Through 2040 Go to US Primary Care Workforce Growth: A Decade of Limited Progress, and Projected Needs Through 2040 2018 Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice: What We’ve Learned and Where We Need to Go Go to Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice: What We’ve Learned and Where We Need to Go 2017 Fellowship or Further Training for Family Medicine Residents? Go to Fellowship or Further Training for Family Medicine Residents?
2015 Assessing the viability of External Searchable Resources on the American Board of Family Medicine’s certification examination Go to Assessing the viability of External Searchable Resources on the American Board of Family Medicine’s certification examination
2024 US Primary Care Workforce Growth: A Decade of Limited Progress, and Projected Needs Through 2040 Go to US Primary Care Workforce Growth: A Decade of Limited Progress, and Projected Needs Through 2040
2018 Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice: What We’ve Learned and Where We Need to Go Go to Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice: What We’ve Learned and Where We Need to Go
2017 Fellowship or Further Training for Family Medicine Residents? Go to Fellowship or Further Training for Family Medicine Residents?