Background: Educational efforts targeting diagnostic reasoning have been proposed by the National Academy of Medicine as a means to reduce diagnostic errors. Building on situativity theory, which describes how the context in which we reason impacts our diagnostic ability, teaching diagnostic reasoning should ideally occur in tandem with patient care. Tracking patient outcomes can improve […]

Case Presentation: A 22-year-old previously healthy man presented to the emergency department with sudden onset left flank pain that began shortly after shoveling his driveway and radiated to his groin. He noted mild dyspnea while shoveling but otherwise denied urinary or constitutional symptoms. His physical exam was notable for fever with a temperature of 38.2C, […]