Serious game training in medical education: potential to mitigate cognitive biases of healthcare professionals.

The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized how external factors can adversely affect clinical decision-making [[13]]. Keywords: clinical reasoning; cognitive bias; debiasing; health professions education; serious games EN clinical reasoning cognitive bias debiasing health professions education serious games 536 537 2 11/08/21 20211101 NES 211101 "Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for." Amos Tversky Decision making is at the heart of medical practice [[1]], [[2]], [[3]]; the clinical reasoning process has been researched extensively over the past three decades [[1]], [[2]], [[3]], [[4]], [[5]], [[6]], [[7]]. [Extracted from the article]

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