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Out there in medical offices, hospitals and clinics there is a subset of clinicians who appear, either by training or personality, unable to judge themselves. In other words, they overestimate their skills. Nobody would care except that they practice these imaginary skills on patients.
Doctors Often Overestimate Their Expertise
TUESDAY, Sept. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors often have a falsely exaggerated view of their own capabilities, a new study suggests.In fact, physicians who were judged by outsiders to be the worst performers in a given area often gave themselves especially high marks, researchers report.
"There is a subset of clinicians who appear, either by training or personality, unable to judge themselves," said study lead researcher Dr. David Davis, a professor of health policy management and evaluation at the University of Toronto, in Canada.
His team published its findings in the Sept. 6 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
In their review, Davis and his colleagues in Canada and the United States decided to see what the accumulated data had to say about the accuracy of physician self-assessments. To do so, they focused on 17 studies comparing doctors' self-assessments against those of an objective, external reviewer.
"In two-thirds of those studies, it appears as though physicians, without any outside means of observing their behavior, misjudged their competence," Davis said.
In many cases, doctors thought they were very adept in certain tasks -- detecting signs of sexual abuse in patients, for example, or delivering joint injections -- but were typically deemed to be poor performers by outside experts.
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