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 …

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Background Mountain biking (MTB) is an increasingly popular sport with high injury rates. Previous research has focused on inherent risk factors that may influence rate of injury such as age and gender. Risk homeostasis and risk-taking behavior have been previously studied in other extreme sports, but the effect of injury on risk-taking behavior in MTB …

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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 …

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