A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize a public workshop to explore opportunities to strengthen health care professional education and training in the diagnostic process and reduce the potential for diagnostic errors. Workshop participants will also consider the current scientific landscape and research opportunities for improving curricula and training programs in the diagnostic process across the career trajectory.
The workshop will feature invited presentations and discussions on education and training by exploring educational strategies within areas such as:

• The iterative and collaborative nature of the diagnostic process, including information gathering, integration, and interpretation, to form a working diagnosis;
• Developments in training and education on how to incorporate shared decision making in the diagnostic process, improving timely communication of diagnosis with patients and their families, and leveraging community-centered approaches;
• Strategies to educate trainees to improve communication, care coordination, and teamwork among health care professionals, patients, and their caregivers and families;
• Innovative methods for educating trainees about factors that can contribute to diagnostic disparities, including social determinants of health, access to high-quality diagnosis, and systemic inequities;
• Methods for educating trainees about the appropriate use of diagnostic tests, technologies, innovations, and artificial intelligence and machine learning, to support the diagnostic process and the appropriate use of testing to reduce overuse and overdiagnosis; and to enable learning opportunities from diagnostic errors within health systems;
• The educational process for health care professionals, assessment of learning, and incorporating elements of diagnostic excellence into professional development and continuing education; and
• The opportunities and potential unintended consequences of advancing health care professional education and training in diagnosis.

In accordance with institutional guidelines, a designated rapporteur will prepare a proceedings-in brief of the workshop based on the presentations and discussion during the workshop. The proceedings-in brief will be subject to the National Academies review procedures prior to release.