Speaker: Lakshmi Krishnan, M.D., Ph.D.

Title: Diagnosis - Fact and Fiction

Format: Virtual

Objectives:

1. Describe how diagnosis as we practice it today emerged in the 19th century, and why that history still shapes clinical training.
2. Explain how the "physician-as-detective" metaphor influences clinical reasoning, professional identity, and clinical technologies - from the EHR to AI.
3. Identify the system-level factors that drive diagnostic error and inequity, including the promises and limits of AI as a diagnostic partner.

Session date: 
07/30/2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm EDT
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  • 1.00 ABIM MOC 2
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.00 Completion
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