Decision Making in the Backcountry and its Clinical Applications – a Pilot Experiential Learning Course

Abstract Objective: To design an experiential learning session on decision-making bias, fallacies, and heuristics. Background: Reducing decision-making bias improves patient care.1,2 Teaching decision-making bias, fallacies, and heuristics early in medical education is the first step to reducing mental pitfalls in the healthcare system. There are short-term learning benefits to a cognitive bias session3, but the …