A study protocol (accepted for a presentation at the EGPRN conference in Riga 2017) Objectives To know prevalence of GF in GP consultations and its relation with patient characteristics (sociodemographic and clinical) and professional (gender, experience, personality and knowledge of the patient). To assess the validity of gut feelings (sense of alarm and sense of reassurance) to… read more

Abstract accepted for presentation on the EGPRN-conference in Riga (2017) Background. The Gut Feelings Questionnaire (GFQ) is a ten items questionnaire based on consensus statements defining the sense of alarm and the sense of reassurance. The purpose of the GFQ is to determine the presence or absence of gut feelings in diagnostic reasoning of general… read more

The first step in the development of a gut feelings questionnaire for patients An abstract accepted for a presentation on the Clinical Decision Making workshop in Bergen (Norway, 23-25th March 2017) and on the EGPRN-conference in Riga (May 2017) Introduction: General Practitioners (GPs) recognize the role of gut feelings (GF) in their diagnostic reasoning ,… read more

On the WONCA-conference in Copenhagen (Juni 2016), Ge A. Donker et al. presented  the results of their research into the determinants of cancer related gut feelings of GPs. A GP’s gut feeling appeared to be a useful tool. Its predictive value increases if GP is older or has more experience. BMJ-Open has already accepted a report about this research…. read more

Abstract Intuition is a part of diagnostic reasoning and decision making in medicine and so in general practice (GP). In this research, I aimed to discover in which ways GP supervisors have attention for the intuitive elements of diagnostic reasoning and decision making of general practitioners in training (GP trainees). Theoretically, I accessed this research… read more

Hereby the poster about the Linguistic Validation of the Gut Feelings Questionnaire into three European languages designed aimed to present this intriguing translation process on the EGPRN conference in Tel Aviv (2016 May) (Marie Barais). poster egprn tel aviv (1)

At Cyprus (Earli, 2015, August) Margje van de Wiel presented the first results of an interview study with GP-trainees and their supervisors about their perceptions of learning diagnostic reasoning. Her presentation was at a symposium entitled ‘Learning in and for the medical profession: from formal to informal and beyond’. (coauthors Christian Mengelers, Marjan Govaerts, Erik Stolper)… read more