Welcome to episode 530 of the Divine Intervention Podcast.

In today's podcast, I'm going to be considering a topic known as a cognitive errors and the USMLEs, cognitive errors on the USMLEs. This is a super high

your podcast for step one, step two, and step three. And where do many of these cognitive errors come from?

A lot of them come from what many people know as a heuristic, right?

So what's a heuristic?

It's pretty much like pattern recognition.

Many of us use this as medical students or as health care professionals.

You just use patterns in your mind and you just use that.

You know, it's almost like test-taking in a sense.

Like, man, I've seen this pattern so many times so because of that boom I'm just going to jump to this

That's a common kind of that's basically like almost like a foundation for many of these errors

You're just like well I've seen this pattern before so it he like a

foundation for many of these errors. You're just like, well, I've seen this pattern before,

so it got to be this. That's not always a smart way to think.

It's smart to think that way, but sometimes it can have some pitfalls.

And one thing I'm going to say about these cognitive errors.

So I've said the first thing, like where they come from,

you know, a lot of them are from heuristics,

but the second thing I'm going to mention here is this. The right answer on your exam is going to be based on the way the scenario is described.

The right answer on your exam is going to be based on the way the scenario is described.

The scenario, the same scenario described one way may be one answer.

That identical scenario described a slightly different way, maybe

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