Improving diagnosis education is fundamental to improving diagnostic practice. Diagnosis education must be evidence based, interprofessional, contextually situated, and longitudinal, accompanied by robust faculty development and assessment programs.
The outcomes that education programs should aim to achieve have been defined: the diagnosis-focused competencies. Curricular innovations are being piloted and implemented, and our understanding of assessment of diagnostic reasoning continues to expand. Consensus-based recommendations on the "next steps" to advance diagnosis education have recently been issued, with promising interventions and innovations being piloted and implemented. Further progress is needed to implement and evaluate diagnosis education programs on a broad scale, ensuring that tomorrow's healthcare professionals are equipped to be effective members of the diagnostic team.
