摘要：The current debate on clinical reasoning revolvesprimarily around Dual-Process Theory. This theory sug-gests that there are two distinctively separate cognitivesystems underlying thinking and reasoning; commonlyreferred to as System 1 and System 2. 1 System 1 isconsidered intuitive, fast and reliant on automatic activationof “illness scripts” stored in memory and leading toeffortless pattern recognition. System 2 on the other handis considered analytic, slow, deliberate, and systematic. Theclinical reasoning literature is divided; one group ofresearchers defending System 1 reasoning as the hallmarkof expert decision-making, whereas the other camp ofresearchers considers System 2 reasoning as superior andmore likely to achieve diagnostic accuracy. 2,3 Some alsoargue that System 2 is less prone to biases (prematureclosure, confirmation bias etc.).
