The Differential Diagnosis Project: Defining and Understanding Differential Diagnosis Mastery

• Creating an operational definition for mastery in formulating a differential diagnosis
• Describing the ability to formulate a differential diagnosis in physician associate students as they progress through training
• Identifying factors that positively and negatively influence the ability to formulate a differential diagnosis
• Understanding how performance in generating differential diagnosis may be associated with other measures of academic success in physician associate training
• Framing descriptive findings of this study to better understand the clinical reasoning process