When the Learning Environment Is Suboptimal

When the Learning Environment Is Suboptimal: Exploring Medical Students’ Perceptions of “Mistreatment”

PURPOSE Despite widespread implementation of policies to address mistreatment, high rates of mistreatment during clinical training are reported, prompting the question of whether "mistreatment" means more to students than delineated in official codes of conduct. Understanding "mistreatment" from students' perspective and as it relates to the learning environment is needed before effective inter...

When Is the Probability Ranking Principle Suboptimal?

When Suboptimal Rules

This paper represents a paradigm shift in what advice agents should provide people. Contrary to what was previously thought, we empirically show that agents that dispense optimal advice will not necessary facilitate the best improvement in people’s strategies. Instead, we claim that agents should at times suboptimally advise. We provide results demonstrating the effectiveness of a suboptimal ad...

Overestimating outcome rates: statistical estimation when reliability is suboptimal.

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate how failure to account for measurement error in an outcome (dependent) variable can lead to significant estimation errors and to illustrate ways to recognize and avoid these errors. DATA SOURCES Medical literature and simulation models. STUDY DESIGN/DATA COLLECTION Systematic review of the published and unpublished epidemiological literature on the rate of preventab...

When Periodic Timetables Are Suboptimal