Enhancing Clinical Decision-Making Through Outdoor Experiential Learning: A Novel Educational Approach for Emergency Medicine Residents

Background Clinical decision-making is influenced by cognitive biases, yet traditional medical education provides limited opportunities to explore these biases in real-time. This study evaluates whether outdoor experiential learning enhances awareness of decision-making processes and bias recognition among emergency medicine (EM) residents. Methods We developed an outdoor experiential workshop where EM residents selected one of three …