Illness scripts

Question 1

what is an illness script?

Answer 1

mental cue cards used to represent individual diseases

Question 2

how do you gain intermediate level at building an illness script

Answer 2

gain clinical exposure

organize clinical features into a script

compare and contrast between similar diseases

ask more experienced physicians to discuss the distinguishing features they used to rank their DDx

Question 3

3 aspects of appendicitis script

Answer 3

epidemiological

signs and symptoms

pathophysiology

Question 4

what do scripts look like on the novice level?

Answer 4

rely on biomedical knowledge to explain the disease

Question 5

what do scripts look like on the intermediate level

Answer 5

organize biomedical knowledge using signs and symptoms to explain the disease

Question 6

what do scripts look like on the expert level

Answer 6

narrative framework of clinical features to rule in or rule out DDx

Question 7

for an expert each patient presentation is

Answer 7

an oppurtunity to learn and build more integrated illness scripts