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The three main steps in the simulation

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QUICK THINKING
PHASE

FIRST STEP: HYPOTHESIS FORMULATION

This involves automatic and subconscious clinical pattern recognition in the case presented, which will lead you generate hypotheses (the best diagnosis, the best tests to do, or the best treatment) based on your own experience with similar cases.

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HYPOTHETICAL –
DEDUCTIVE PHASE

SECOND STEP: CLINICAL DECISION MAKING

The simulator presents different clinical situations for the same case in which, for a given hypothesis about the diagnosis, complementary tests, or treatment, new information is added, forcing you to reflect on and come to a decision about the impact of the new information on the proposed hypothesis.

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REFLECTIVE
PHASE

THIRD STEP: OBSERVATION OF RESULTS

At the end of each exercise, the simulator provides personalized performance indicators to facilitate efficient reflection on what happened by showing you the possible results from multiple points of view and alternative decisions about the same case.

This is exciting—you feel immersed in a debate with colleagues and experts to decide the best approach for a real patient.

The program step by step:

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Read the clinical case:

Analyze the case carefully and try to come up with one to three hypotheses.
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Formulate your hypotheses:

Write the hypotheses you have come up with regarding the diagnosis, complementary tests to do, or treatment approach for this case.
3

Justify your hypotheses:

Lay out your reasoning, weighing your hypotheses with clinical data from the case that make your hypotheses more plausible or less plausible.
4

Observe the hypotheses put forth by the experts:

Analyze the hypotheses that you will work with in the “clinical decision-making step”.
5

Take decisions in five distinct scenarios for the same case:

In each scenario, a hypothesis is put forth and new information about the patient is added. You have to decide what impact the new information will have on the initial hypothesis.
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Analyze your decisions compared with those of the experts:

Reflect on the extent that your hypotheses and decisions converge or diverge with those of dozens of international experts.

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